Bernard Roth founded World Oil in 1938, when he opened his first gas station on the corner of Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. At just 22, he pioneered self-service gas stations, slashing gas prices and advertising: “We don’t wash your windows. We just sell you gas for less.” A savvy businessman, Bernie Roth was also an upstanding family man who believed in doing the right thing. That’s the way he lived his life and the way he built his business, along with World Oil co-founder and his wife of over seven decades, Florence.

More than 75 years later, World Oil is now one of California’s largest privately held companies. Bernard and Florence’s sons, Bob and Steve Roth, carry on their legacy, operating a business with a soul that recycles, produces, and transports vital petroleum-based and related products. We lead the industry in sustainable, end-to-end solutions that care for our communities, our environment, and our shared future.

Reclaim, reprocess, recycle.

We believe recycling is one of the best ways to create a cleaner world and protect our natural resources. World Oil Recycling is California’s leading recycler of used motor oil and antifreeze. With over 40 years of environmental service and as the largest environmental business of our kind in the western united states, we provide vital end-to-end recycling solutions—recovering, reclaiming, processing and disposing of hazardous and contaminated waste streams including waste oil, oily water and used antifreeze.

We are leading the way in conservation and sustainability by converting oil-based waste into diesel fuel and asphalt flux, and recycling used anti-freeze for conversion into new antifreeze. Our wastewater treatment standards meet and exceed the requirements set forth by the Los Angeles County Sanitation District and we were recognized as one of Compton’s Best Green Businesses in 2014. And we are currently expanding our services beyond California, into AZ, NV and NM.