Yes. In California, every commercial used cooking oil (inedible kitchen grease) pickup needs a manifest documenting the chain of custody from your container to a licensed renderer, there is no small-operator exemption, so a single truck needs the same record a restaurant does. You get a CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every pickup, and electronic manifests are explicitly legal in California (they must conform to the California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) with a 2-year minimum retention. See the rule at www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/3-CCR-1180.24

Yes. Single-truck food truck cooking oil disposal is exactly what this service is built for. We place a compact locked container at your commissary or staging base, set a pickup cadence that matches your route, and collect for free, no minimums and no "your volume is too small" runaround that general haulers give mobile operators. As you add trucks, each one joins the same agreement and shows up in one dashboard.

Your container lives where the truck actually bases, almost always a commissary kitchen, sometimes a shared lot or staging spot, and we collect there on a schedule, not from wherever the truck happens to be parked that day. Because mobile output is uneven, we set a baseline cadence to your normal route and adjust it around festival weekends or slow stretches; a real person answers when you call to flex a date. You get an email or text confirmation after every pickup.

We keep a per-operator manifest trail even on a shared commissary container, so your individual disposal is documented rather than lumped into one anonymous barrel. That gives you a clean record to show a health inspector or a commissary landlord who requires proof of compliant disposal as a condition of your space. The CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease program licenses transporters and renderers specifically to document this chain of custody and curb dumping and theft: www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

Used cooking oil is a real theft target, industry estimates put roughly $75 million in used cooking oil stolen each year (the USDA values about 100 pounds near $25), and an unsecured bin at a busy commissary lot is both a standing loss and a gap in your chain of custody. Every base gets a free locked, anti-theft container, which protects your oil and keeps your manifest accurate. Background on the CDFA program built to deter theft and dumping: www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

Yes. The Filtrate portal puts every truck, or every tenant at a commissary you run, in one dashboard: schedules, pickup history, container status, and audit-ready manifests across the whole fleet, with a mobile app at each location and role-based access so a fleet owner sees all units and each operator sees only theirs. Adding a truck is a schedule update, not a new contract, and a truck that goes off the road drops off cleanly.

Every gallon is recycled through a CDFA-licensed renderer into feedstock for biodiesel and renewable diesel. Renewable diesel reduces carbon intensity by about 65% on average versus petroleum diesel (DOE/CARB: afdc.energy.gov/fuels/renewable-diesel ), and biodiesel and renewable diesel from waste feedstocks like used cooking oil deliver roughly 79–86% lower lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions (DOE: afdc.energy.gov/fuels/biodiesel-production ). Your fryer oil becomes a documented part of a low-carbon fuel supply chain.

We serve Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the Bay Area, and Tacoma / the Pacific Northwest, and we are expanding. Service is month-to-month with no long-term contract, no equipment lien, and a clean exit with your full manifest history exported to you. If your trucks operate outside the current footprint, tell us your locations and we will notify you as we expand into those areas, we never imply coverage we do not have.