Fats, oils and grease poster
Designed to be pinned above a sink and understood at a glance by whoever is on shift, including the person who was not there when the collection was set up. A3 for a back-of-house wall, A4 for a smaller kitchen.
Free, no sign-up, no email address. Reusable under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
What is on it
Five things that must never go near a drain, six things to do instead, one short paragraph explaining why it matters, and a blank box for the kitchen to write in its own collection day. That is the whole poster. Anything more and it stops being read.
Why the branding is one line
Our name is a single line in the footer rather than a logo across the top, and there is no phone number in the body and no pricing anywhere. That is deliberate. A council, a business improvement district or an environmental health officer will not hand out an advert, and this was built to be handed out.
Print notes
- A3 is the wall version. A4 suits a smaller kitchen or a staff noticeboard.
- Print at 100%, not "fit to page", or the margins go tight.
- Laminate it if it is going near a sink. Ours go up laminated and we carry spares in the van.
- Both versions print fine in black and white, though the two lists are easier to tell apart in colour.
Oil down a drain is a separate offence
Most kitchen staff understand that pouring oil away causes blockages. Far fewer know it is unlawful in its own right. Discharging trade effluent, which includes fats, oils and grease, into a public sewer without consent is an offence under the Water Industry Act 1991. That sits entirely separately from your waste duty of care, so a kitchen can be in trouble under both at once for the same act.
The practical consequence is more ordinary than a prosecution. Fat cools within a few metres of your sink, hardens, and starts catching everything else that goes past. The first blockage is almost always inside your own building, which means your drainage bill and your kitchen closed while somebody jets the line. The sewer comes second.
The same oil, poured into a sealed drum instead, is worth money to you. That is the entire argument, and it fits on a poster.
Distribute this without asking us
Every London borough publishes something about fats, oils and grease, and a fair number of those pages are a single paragraph telling caterers to use a licensed contractor. If a printable poster would be more use to your food safety team than another paragraph, take this one.
You can host the PDF on your own domain, put your own borough's contact details alongside it, translate it, or adapt the wording for a local campaign. The licence asks only that London Oil Collection Ltd is credited. You do not need to email us first, though we would like to know if you use it.
If printed and laminated copies would be more useful than a file, tell us the borough and a rough quantity and we will tell you honestly what we can cover.
Take this and use it
Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) . Copy it, print it, put it on your own website, adapt it for your borough. The only condition is that you credit London Oil Collection Ltd and link back. No permission needed and no need to tell us, though we would like to hear about it.
Last reviewed 27 July 2026. General guidance on the position in England, not legal advice.
Who this is for
Kitchen walls, and councils, BIDs and water retailers distributing FOG guidance
Councils, BIDs and environmental health teams: if printed copies would be more useful than a PDF, tell us the borough and a quantity on info@londonoilcollection.com or WhatsApp.