Green Grease Environmental

he story begins with Anthony Demma and Jim Bricker, two old high school friends catching up sometime in 2007.  It turns out that Jim, an avid environmentalist and constant tinkerer had converted his old Mercedes to run on used fryer oil.  This presented Jim with a bit of a problem though as there were no grease filling station for his automobile.  Jim, never being one to let an obstacle get in his way decided to approach local restaurants about acquiring their used fryer oil.  What Jim found was that restaurants were all too happy to stop paying for the removal of their “garbage” and allow him to take it away for free.  The seeds were thus planted for what would become Waste Oil Recyclers (WOR).  Jim soon found that he was overwhelmed with restaurants that would like him to remove their grease, at no charge.  To make a long story shorter, Anthony and another friend wound up loaning Jim money to purchase his first truck.  That first truck and Jim (with the help of many people along the way) went on to become a very successful recycling business.  In 2011, frustrated with the lack of attractive investments in the broader marketplace and looking to invest with a social conscious, Anthony approached Jim about replicating his business model here in Chicago. Jim embraced the idea of bringing his message of improving the environment, creating local jobs and helping to secure America’s energy independence to another major metropolitan area.  In 2012 Maureen Demma formed Green Grease Environmental and so began the journey.