The recycling of homogeneous metathesis catalysts is a big challenge in alkene metathesis. Within this contribution the recycling of these catalysts is investigated in the cross metathesis of methyl oleate and 4-octene as model reaction. Fluid-fluid separation technique and temperature dependent solvent systems allow the separation of the homogeneously solved catalysts from the metathesis products. The catalyst phase was successfully recycled in multiple recycling runs only with minor loss of yield.