Liquid waste and grease trap services
Scheduled grease trap, septic and liquid waste collection under trade waste agreements.
The business, as an owner knows it
Every commercial kitchen has a grease trap, and every water authority requires it to be pumped on a set schedule under a trade waste agreement. Add septic systems, oily water, car wash pits and industrial sumps, and you have a service book where the customer is required to keep buying, on a calendar, indefinitely. Miss the schedule and the customer risks their trade waste consent, so the trucks are welcome every time.
This is a licensed, route-density business. EPA transport licences, approved disposal arrangements, drivers who know every site, and runs built up over decades so the trucks spend their day pumping rather than driving. Owners know the disposal costs, the tipping points on each run, and which customers have been on the books for 20 years.
Why Talia Capital acquires here
Compliance-mandated recurring revenue, licensing barriers, route density and long customer relationships. It is one of the clearest examples of the kind of business we exist to own: essential, unglamorous, and very hard to displace.
After acquisition the runs, the drivers and the name on the tankers stay. Growth means filling the existing routes, adding a truck when density supports it, and keeping the disposal relationships and licences in impeccable order.
What we look for
- 15 or more years of operation with current EPA licences
- Roughly 10 to 40 staff including experienced drivers
- Scheduled service revenue under trade waste requirements
- Established routes with good density
- Reliable disposal arrangements
- A maintained tanker fleet
These criteria are a guide, not a gate. If your business doesn’t tick every box, we would rather have the conversation than miss something good. See the full criteria.
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