Add Climate Change: Growing Doubts Over Chip Fat Biofuel
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<br>Climate change: Growing doubts over chip fat [biofuel](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889)<br>
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<br>21 April 2021<br>
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<br>New research questions the environmental effect of increasing imports of used cooking oil (UCO) into the UK and Europe.<br>
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<br>Chip fat and other oils are considered waste, so when they are utilized to make [biodiesel](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) it conserves carbon emissions by [displacing fossil](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) oil.<br>
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<br>But such is the demand throughout Europe that imports now represent more than half of the UCO that's made into fuel.<br>
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<br>According to the study, external, there's no method to show these imports are sustainable.<br>
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<br>Without any [testing](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) of what's can be found in, professionals believe it is likewise ripe for scams.<br>
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<br>Used cooking oil imports might improve deforestation<br>
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<br>[Consumers](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4) present 'growing threat' to tropical forests<br>
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<br>Reducing emissions from transportation is showing to be one of the [toughest challenges](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) for federal governments all over the world.<br>
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<br>They have actually motivated the use of biofuels as a crucial ways of curbing carbon from automobiles and trucks.<br>
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<br>Biofuels are typically a mix of [fossil fuel](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) and oil made from plants or [vegetables](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048).<br>
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<br>The truth that these crops can be re-grown and take in more CO2 suggests they cancel out the carbon released when used in engines.<br>
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<br>Soy and palm oil were as soon as extensively used as components of biodiesel but this practice has been extensively challenged because it [motivates deforestation](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608).<br>
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<br>So for the last years or so, making use of utilized cooking oil has actually broadened enormously as an alternative feedstock for fuel.<br>
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<br>Chip fat and other waste oils have become an essential part of [biodiesel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) with an effective industry emerging throughout Europe to collect and process the product.<br>
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<br>But with the quantity of biodiesel made from UCO increasing by around 40% every year since 2014, there merely isn't enough chip fat to walk around.<br>
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<br>According to a report from the campaign group Transport & Environment, external, majority of the UCO used in Europe is [imported](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html).<br>
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<br>Their research study recommends this is extremely troublesome when it comes to impacts on the [environment](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048).<br>
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<br>While UCO is thought about a waste material in the UK, in China, Indonesia and Malaysia it has actually long been used to feed animals. The report raises the [question](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) of what people in these countries are replacing the UCO with, when it is exported.<br>
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<br>In 2019, [Malaysia exported](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) 90 million litres of UCO to the UK and Ireland. Figures for their exports to other [European nations](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) aren't readily available however the flow of UCO is likely to be similar.<br>
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<br>With a population of around 33 million, that's close to 3 litres per head of [utilized oil](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) that's [collected](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) and exported to the UK and alone.<br>
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<br>By contrast, Thailand, which has a population of 70 million individuals, managed to gather around five million litres of UCO in 2019.<br>
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<br>"Because we are purchasing it, they have less utilized cooking oil to use on the things that they were previously using it for," said Greg Archer with [Transport](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) & Environment.<br>
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<br>"And they're simply purchasing more virgin oil which virgin oil is largely palm oil, since that's the least expensive oil offered.<br>
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<br>"So indirectly, we're just encouraging more deforestation in Southeast Asia."<br>
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<br>Another major issue with UCO is the suspicion of fraud.<br>
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<br>Because of demand from Europe, the price of UCO is frequently greater than palm oil. The worry is that some dishonest traders are just diluting deliveries of UCO with palm.<br>
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<br>As oils of different types are mixed in bulk for transportation, and no testing of the products is performed, some experts think fraud is swarming.<br>
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<br>The tip of scams anywhere along the chain of supply is rejected by the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), who say there are robust certification plans in location.<br>
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<br>"It is extensively understood that the European Commission has taken relevant steps to entirely suppress unsound [market practices](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) in [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) markets," said Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.<br>
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<br>He says a brand-new database being established by the EU will make sure that trading, accreditation and sustainability data on all bio-liquids will need to be signed up.<br>
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<br>"The combination of revised accreditation plans and the pan-EU track and trace database will ensure that no sustainability concerns arise in the entire biofuels and bio-liquids supply chain," he told BBC News.<br>
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<br>Others in the field are worried that the database concept, which was first mooted in 2018, might not work in stemming believed fraud.<br>
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<br>The report from Transport & Environment points out that with shipping and air travel wanting to decarbonise by utilizing biofuels, demand for UCO might double over the next years.<br>
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<br>"Rising the demand beyond [sustainable supply](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) levels would increase these concerns, and dangers of utilizing 'fake' UCO, potentially causing indirect impacts such as deforestation."<br>
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<br>Related topics<br>
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<br>COP26<br>
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<br>Paris environment contract<br>
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<br>Climate<br>
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