Serving the Food Industry with Sustainable Waste Solutions

For over a century, our parent company, Darling Ingredients, has provided increasingly diverse and sustainable waste solutions and management to Canada (& the U.S.) food industry for the removal and repurposing of organic meat by-products and used cooking oils. The history of Darling reaches as far back as 1882 with the founding of Ira C. Darling & Company, which later evolved into today’s Darling Ingredients. As an experienced and leading player in the rendering industry our company has the infrastructure and resources to provide necessary service and the most innovative equipment options to meet our customer's needs.

Sustainable Waste Recycling

Our purpose is to repurpose. Darling's roots and experience stretch back to the beginnings of our organization. With a legacy of over a century, Darling Ingredients has emerged as a global leader and innovator in the development and production of sustainable ingredients from nutrient-rich organic by-products and provides sustainably sourced quality products and services to industries around the world. Our critical and environmentally safe solutions help protect the food and feed chains, keep people and animals safe, and benefit people, businesses and the environment.

Committed to Protecting Our World

The capability for used cooking oils to be recycled and animal fats to be used as feedstock and renewable energy helps alleviate the demand on the world’s dwindling energy resources. Darling Ingredients, with its broad portfolio of sustainable feed and food ingredients, has elevated the value and usefulness of used cooking oil and animal fats.

When we process the carbon-rich meat by-products we collect from our customers, we contribute to maintaining a healthy environment in three important ways:   

  • We divert carbon and nitrogen away from the soil, surface waters, groundwater and the atmosphere through effective recycling.

  • We transform the carbon and nitrogen we capture into useful products, which reduces the production of greenhouse gases that result when new products are produced and later discarded.

  • We offer a safer and more efficient alternative to landfill, incineration or composting of inedible meat by-products or farm mortalities.

A Legacy of Service to Global Industries

Over the years, Darling Ingredients has expanded its business from traditional rendering operations to include a wide range of innovative residuals-to-resources services around the world. In January of 2014, Darling Ingredients expanded its operations to span five continents. Our organization now offers a global portfolio of over 400 products and services for the food, feed, fuel, fertilizer and pharmaceutical industries that are used in businesses and homes around the world every day.

Our joint venture with DGD began in 2013. Located outside of Norco Louisiana, DGD takes waste feedstocks, fats and used cooking oils and turns them into an ingredient crucial to the creation of renewable diesel. Today, it is the largest operation in North America and the world's only vertically integrated renewable diesel producer.

  • In 2021, our fuel reduced the carbon emissions equivalent to taking 604,904 cars off the road.
  • This cleaner-burning renewable diesel reduces greenhouse gas emissions up to 85% petroleum diesel.
  • Renewable diesel, unlike biodiesel, is produced in a way that yields a biofuel chemically identical to petroleum diesel.
  • Renewable diesel can be dropped into the existing pipeline for distribution to diesel retailers or sold as a low carbon alternative to petroleum diesel.
  • Renewable diesel burns more cleaner and more completely than petroleum diesel and is a superior alternative to biodiesel.