Natural Grease Trap Maintenance Products vs. Chemical Cleaners
Decades ago, it was hard to imagine that you can clean something as nasty as a restaurant grease trap using an all natural product! There were simply no safe grease trap cleaning products available.
If your commercial grease trap was making your whole facility smell offensive, you were forced to pour chemicals or enzymes into the trap, in hopes of liquifying the grease so that it would more easily flow through the trap.
Sound like an easy fix? It would be, except for 3 big issues:
- It’s against most local ordinances to use chemicals and/or enzymes in a commercial grease trap. Once the fats, oils and greases liquify, they travel downstream and coagulant once again, causing issues at the local municipal water treatment plant. As a result, using these types of chemicals can get you in trouble with the local authorities and have you end up paying a hefty fine!
- Chemical treatments harm the environment, rather than working to keep it healthy
- Using chemicals are a potential danger to employees that have to handle them. They can cause burns on their skin and are especially dangerous if they are inhaled or splashed into their eyes.
How does a natural product work in a grease trap?
Natural products are in demand for fixing problems, because they are safe to handle and also safe for the environment.
So, how would a natural product help in a grease trap full of nasty fats, oils, greases and other organic wastes? Well, believe it or not, nature has produced it’s own cure for getting rid of these wastes! There are safe and natural microorganisms that degrade these types of wastes. In fact, they exist only for this purpose!
The trick is to uncover the most hearty and efficient strains of bacteria, so that you can have the best-performing product! Bacillus organisms are generally considered the safest and best type to use.
Once these “good bacteria” are exposed to a mix of water and wastes… they naturally go to work and feed on the wastes! Yes, there are actually grease eating bacteria in nature! You have to make sure you have the right strains of bacteria for the right wastes however! That’s also where the science comes in. You have to utilize bacteria that were made to degrade the specific wastes found in a commercial grease trap.
What are the best grease trap cleaning products to use?
We have been developing these grease trap formulas for 2 decades now! So, we have put together the safest and most effective bacteria products for grease traps. We use the strongest strains available so that they can not only survive in a grease trap, but actually thrive and degrade the specific wastes that are present.
Customers expect to have the safest but also the most effective products available
Everyone wants a safer product, but not at the expense of having it perform poorly.
So, you need safe and biodegradable ingredients along with natural active ingredients. At the same time, you need a high concentration of product with all ingredients being sourced from the United States. That way, you have a high quality formula, while also being the safest possible.
We actually have another post on the benefits of using ingredients sourced strictly from the U.S. that you can see here: The Importance of Using Ingredients Sourced from the United States in Natural Pet and Equine Products
Customers also want products to be simple and easy to use
In addition to being both safe & effective, customers also want products to be simple and easy to work with…
As a result, we developed slow-release grease trap bacteria blocks! You drop them in the grease trap and they slowly release over a few weeks. That way, they work night and day, degrading the wastes in the trap. So, they help keep the grease trap from overflowing along with helping to get rid of the odors!
What results can you expect after using Natural Bacteria Blocks in your Commercial Grease Trap?
Using these natural slow-release bacteria blocks regularly will provide you with the following benefits:
- You will have less odors
- You will save money by not having to pump out your trap as often
- You can help prevent nasty overflows from happening
Here is a picture of a grease trap we applied our product on, in a local restaurant:
As you can see, after stirring in our grease trap powder (and waiting one week), the grease trap bacteria had consumed the “grease mat” on top and also degraded a lot of the FOG (fats, oils and greases). Without degrading the wastes, the FOGs would continue to accumulate and end up causing a nasty smell. During busy times, it can even overflow and cause dramatic problems. Not to mention, the health risks and issues you may have with your local ordinance.
Rather than messing with stirring powder into the trap, these slow release bacteria blocks allow you to drop it in, or hang it in (with the provided net) and let it slowly introduce the active product into the trap over a period of weeks.
Many commercial facilities pay for a grease trap pumping service periodically. These companies come out and pump all of the wastes out of the trap and remove it from the facility. While that can be a helpful service, it’s not a fix-all for a grease trap.
If you have a grease trap service, you may want to keep the following in mind:
- Pump-outs are expensive. If you can reduce the amount you do in a year, you will save money
- Usually pump-outs leave a terrible smell at the facility for a day or two. So reducing the frequency is something your customers will also appreciate
- Removing the wastes by taking them to the local waste dump isn’t helping the environment
Using natural grease trap cleaning blocks, safely removes these wastes daily, so that you can reduce the frequency of these services and also keep your grease trap maintained on a daily basis so that you can keep those nasty odors from your employees and customers!
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We’ve been developing natural products for over 2 decades now! Let us help you get started by private labeling a line of natural products that you can sell to your customers with pride! We will design stunning labels that are unique to your company!
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