Pickups are scheduled with your operations and security team to fit assigned loading-dock windows and respect badging, SIDA, and airside escort requirements. Collection is performed by our CDFA-licensed renderer partner on a set cadence, so visits are predictable and documented rather than a surprise at the dock. Whether a kitchen is landside in the food court or behind the security line at the gates, service is arranged around how your terminal actually runs.

Yes. Every operator in the terminal, branded restaurants, food-court outlets, club lounges, and airline catering flight kitchens, runs on one Filtrate account. The concessionaire or airport authority gets a single dashboard across every location, while each individual kitchen sees only its own pickups, schedule, and container status through role-based access. That replaces the usual patchwork of a different hauler and login at every kitchen.

Yes. California requires a manifest for every used cooking oil pickup, documenting the chain of custody to a licensed renderer, and you get a CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every pickup at every kitchen. Electronic manifests are explicitly legal in California, the rule requires they conform to the California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, with a minimum retention period we exceed. See the rule at www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/3-CCR-1180.24 and the licensing program at www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

Even inside a secure facility, an unsecured container on a shared loading dock is both a loss and a chain-of-custody gap. Used cooking oil is a documented theft target, industry estimates put roughly $75 million worth stolen each year, and the USDA values around 100 pounds of grease near $25, so a locked container protects your volume and keeps your manifest accurate. Every kitchen on the program gets a free, locked, anti-theft container at no rental cost. The CDFA program that documents chain of custody and combats grease theft is at www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

Month-to-month with no long-term lock-in, no auto-renewal trap, and no equipment lien on any kitchen. You can cancel anytime, and on exit your full pickup and manifest history exports cleanly so your chain-of-custody records stay audit-ready. A real person answers when you call, same day, so opening a new concession or adjusting a schedule never sits in a queue.

Every gallon is recycled through a CDFA-licensed renderer into feedstock for biodiesel and renewable diesel. Renewable diesel reduces carbon intensity by roughly 65% on average versus petroleum diesel according to DOE and CARB data afdc.energy.gov/fuels/renewable-diesel, and waste-feedstock biodiesel and renewable diesel deliver among the largest lifecycle greenhouse-gas reductions there are, on the order of 79 to 86 percent afdc.energy.gov/fuels/biodiesel-production. Under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, used cooking oil qualifies as a biomass-based diesel feedstock with at least a 50% lifecycle GHG reduction www.epa.gov/renewable-fuel-standard/overview-renewable-fuel-standard-program. For an airport, that is a documented, reportable sustainability outcome.

We serve Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the Bay Area, and Tacoma / the Pacific Northwest, and we are expanding. If your airport or terminal food-service footprint is in these regions, every kitchen can go onto one account. If you operate at airports outside the current footprint, tell us the locations and we will notify you as we expand into those areas; we never imply coverage we do not have.

Possibly. For genuinely high-volume kitchens, generally those producing around 250 gallons or more of used cooking oil per month, a rebate may apply. It is handled case by case rather than promised up front, so the best step is to contact us with your volumes and we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense. Free scheduled pickup, the locked container, and the digital manifest are included regardless of volume.