Grease Composting Approval Requires Patience, Major Investment

North Carolina’s Jason Gibson had no idea how much time and money would be necessary for the permit to dispose of his own grease trap waste.
Grease Composting Approval Requires Patience, Major Investment
Grease waste is dumped into an 8,000-gallon, 30- by 60-foot concrete pit, where it is mixed with wood chips. A loader is used to move the compost material into 115-foot windrows on the company’s 70-acre property.

In 2010, Jason Gibson began thinking there may be a business opportunity in grease. He was already operating a successful portable sanitation company that had grown from one unit to 400 in about five years. His business, 64 Portables just outside of Lexington, North Carolina, was...

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