Scheduled used cooking oil pickup is free, and the locked anti-theft container is free too, no equipment deposit and no lien filed against your business. Used cooking oil has resale value as a feedstock for renewable fuel, so we collect it at no charge. There are no setup fees and no contracts to sign. The only thing your staff does is pour cooled fryer oil into the locked container during your normal oil-change routine. Very high-volume kitchens (roughly 250+ gallons per month) may qualify for a rebate, contact us and we'll review your volumes.

Yes. California requires a manifest for every used cooking oil (inedible kitchen grease) pickup, and electronic manifests are explicitly legal under California's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. We generate a CDFA-compliant digital manifest after every pickup and retain it well beyond the 2-year CDFA minimum, exportable any time for an inspector, insurer, or landlord. See the regulation at www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/3-CCR-1180.24 and the CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease program at www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/.

You are responsible for ensuring your collector is properly licensed and provides compliant documentation. The CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease (IKG) program licenses transporters and renderers and documents the chain of custody to deter theft and illegal dumping. Pickup for your restaurant is performed by our CDFA-licensed renderer partner, and a CDFA-compliant digital manifest is generated after every pickup so the licensing and chain of custody are documented for your records. Details on the program are at www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/MPES/.

No. The relationship is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. There are no UCC equipment liens, no auto-renewal traps, and no requirement to buy fresh oil from us in exchange for collection. We earn your restaurant by showing up reliably and proving every pickup with a CDFA digital manifest, not by locking you in.

Every restaurant gets a free locked, anti-theft collection container, and each pickup is recorded with a CDFA digital manifest so the chain of custody is clear. Used grease has real resale value, industry estimates put stolen restaurant grease around $75 million a year, and the USDA has valued roughly 100 pounds near $25, so protecting what's sitting in your back of house matters. The locked container plus the manifest record do exactly that.

It's recycled into biodiesel and renewable-diesel feedstock through a CDFA-licensed renderer, giving your restaurant a real, honest sustainability story. Renewable diesel averages roughly a 65% carbon-intensity reduction versus petroleum diesel per DOE and CARB afdc.energy.gov/fuels/renewable-diesel, and waste-feedstock biodiesel and renewable diesel deliver about 79–86% lower lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions per the U.S. Department of Energy afdc.energy.gov/fuels/biodiesel-production. Used cooking oil also qualifies under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, where biomass-based diesel must show at least a 50% lifecycle GHG reduction www.epa.gov/renewable-fuel-standard/overview-renewable-fuel-standard-program.

We serve Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the Bay Area, and Tacoma/Pacific Northwest, and we're actively expanding. We don't claim nationwide coverage. If your restaurant sits outside these regions, tell us your locations and we'll notify you as we expand. If you operate several restaurants, we can consolidate the in-region ones onto one account today.

Yes. Multiple locations can roll up to one account on our Restaurant Cooking Oil Management program, with a single dashboard where you see every site, each manager sees theirs, and every CDFA manifest is stored and searchable across the group. You add or remove locations as you open, close, or acquire them without renegotiating a contract, terms stay month-to-month. See the hub at /solutions/restaurant-cooking-oil-management.