Our Story
In 2008, Founder & President, Dylan Gehrken, graduated from the University of Virginia with a Degree in Economics and he quickly noticed that all of his most intelligent classmates were pursuing careers in three categories: finance, medicine, or law. Dylan knew he wanted to do something that all of these very smart and ambitious people weren’t doing. Following this line of thought to its logical conclusion, Dylan set out to start some type of waste-related business with a specific focus on helping conserve resources.
In 2009, Dylan started Greasecycle® with one windowless van, a few blank contracts, and a hunger to get all the grease. What started as a dream has turned into a reality. In 2012 Greasecycle built its own processing facility in East Raleigh and has continued to expand, grow, and revolutionize the industry ever since.
Today, Greasecycle employs almost 30 employees and services NC territories spanning from the coast to the Queen City and beyond. Within a decade, Greasecycle went from just one man doing sales, accounting, and collections in one creepy, windowless van and morphed into a company with strong values, a fantastic team, a fleet of service vehicles (all with windows, of course), and thousands loyal customers.
It is a dirty, smelly, unglamorous business. We turn challenging insidious waste streams into valuable low-carbon resources. Call us crazy, but there is something about the fundamental nature of this business that we just REALLY love.
We make the dirty clean and the ugly beautiful.
Greasecycle partners (left to right): Dylan Gehrken, Justin Grich, and JJ Jerome
We're growing!
In 2017, Greasecycle moved its office operations and truck maintenance department into a building of its own. Plans to open an additional facility in the Charlotte region are in the works for the end of 2021.
