Yes. University cooking oil pickup is built for exactly this, residential dining commons, the student-union food court, athletics concessions, retail brands, catering, and satellite cafeterias all go on one coordinated schedule instead of a different hauler per building. Each kitchen gets a free locked container and a pickup cadence matched to how fast it actually fills, and the whole campus rolls up in one portal so your dining director sees every site at once.

Yes. School cafeteria cooking oil recycling works the same way as a multi-building campus: every school site goes on one agreement and one schedule, each cafeteria gets a free locked anti-theft container, and every pickup produces a digital manifest. The district office sees all sites in one portal while each school sees its own, so district-wide chain-of-custody documentation stays consistent and audit-ready without chasing paper across schools.

Yes on both. California requires a manifest documenting the chain of custody for every commercial used cooking oil (inedible kitchen grease) pickup, and electronic manifests are explicitly legal, the rule requires them to conform to the California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, with a two-year minimum retention. You get a CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every pickup at every campus kitchen, and we retain records well beyond the minimum. See the rule: www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/3-CCR-1180.24

The CDFA's inedible kitchen grease program licenses transporters and renderers and runs the manifest system specifically to document chain of custody, deter grease theft, and prevent illegal dumping. Each pickup at every campus kitchen links to a CDFA-licensed renderer on a digital manifest, so the chain of custody runs unbroken from your dining hall to the renderer, and the Filtrate portal lets you export the full history for one building or the whole campus in one click. Program detail: www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

Every gallon collected is recycled into biodiesel and renewable-diesel feedstock through a CDFA-licensed renderer, documented on your manifests. That gives you sourced figures for a STARS submission or climate-action plan: waste-feedstock biodiesel and renewable diesel cut lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions roughly 79–86% versus petroleum diesel (DOE AFDC: afdc.energy.gov/fuels/biodiesel-production ), and renewable diesel averages about a 65% carbon-intensity reduction (DOE/CARB: afdc.energy.gov/fuels/renewable-diesel ). Honest, attributed numbers backed by your own manifest trail.

Used cooking oil is a documented theft target, California built its inedible kitchen grease program, with licensed transporters and a manifest system, specifically to deter grease theft and illegal dumping. An unsecured bin behind a dining hall or concession stand is both a standing loss and a hole in the chain of custody your institution is responsible for. Every campus kitchen gets a free, locked, anti-theft container, which protects your oil, keeps the back-of-house clean near student traffic, and keeps your manifest accurate. Program detail: www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/

No. Service is month-to-month with no long-term lock-in and no auto-renewal trap. You can add a renovated commons or a new satellite campus through a simple schedule update, drop a closed site cleanly, and cancel anytime, and your full pickup and manifest history exports with you so your records stay audit-ready. The agreement has to earn the institution's business every period.

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 campus or district sits in these regions, every kitchen can go on one agreement. If you have locations outside the current footprint, tell us where they are and we will notify you as we expand into those areas, we never imply coverage we do not have.