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+<br>Climate change: Growing doubts over chip fat [biofuel](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608)<br>
+<br>21 April 2021<br>
+<br>comments<br>
+<br>354 Comments<br>
+<br>New research concerns the ecological effect of increasing imports of [utilized](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) cooking oil (UCO) into the UK and Europe.<br>
+<br>Chip fat and other oils are thought about waste, so when they are utilized to make [biodiesel](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) it saves carbon emissions by displacing fossil oil.<br>
+<br>But such is the need across Europe that [imports](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) now [represent](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) over half of the UCO that's made into fuel.<br>
+<br>According to the research study, external, there's no way to prove these imports are sustainable.<br>
+<br>With no testing of what's being available in, experts believe it is also ripe for fraud.<br>
+<br>Used cooking oil imports might improve logging<br>
+<br>Consumers position 'growing danger' to tropical forests<br>
+<br>Reducing emissions from transport is showing to be one of the toughest difficulties for [governments](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) all over the world.<br>
+<br>They have actually motivated the usage of biofuels as a crucial ways of [curbing carbon](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) from cars and lorries.<br>
+<br>Biofuels are generally a blend of nonrenewable fuel source and oil made from plants or vegetables.<br>
+<br>The reality that these crops can be [re-grown](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) and take in more CO2 indicates they counteract the carbon given off when used in engines.<br>
+<br>Soy and palm oil were once widely used as elements of [biodiesel](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) but this practice has actually been extensively discredited due to the fact that it motivates logging.<br>
+<br>So for the last decade or two, using used cooking oil has actually broadened enormously as an alternative feedstock for fuel.<br>
+<br>Chip fat and other waste oils have become a [crucial](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) component of biodiesel with a [reliable market](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) emerging across Europe to collect and process the product.<br>
+<br>But with the amount of [biodiesel](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) made from UCO increasing by around 40% every year since 2014, there merely isn't sufficient chip fat to walk around.<br>
+<br>According to a report from the project group [Transport](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) & Environment, external, more than half of the UCO used in Europe is [imported](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html).<br>
+<br>Their study recommends this is [extremely problematic](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) when it concerns effect on the environment.<br>
+<br>While UCO is thought about a waste material in the UK, in China, Indonesia and Malaysia it has long been used to . The report raises the question of what people in these countries are replacing the UCO with, when it is [exported](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).<br>
+<br>In 2019, [Malaysia exported](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) 90 million litres of UCO to the UK and Ireland. [Figures](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) for their exports to other European nations aren't available but the circulation of UCO is likely to be similar.<br>
+<br>With a population of around 33 million, that's close to 3 litres per head of used oil that's collected and exported to the UK and Ireland alone.<br>
+<br>By contrast, Thailand, which has a population of 70 million people, managed to collect around five million litres of UCO in 2019.<br>
+<br>"Because we are purchasing it, they have less utilized cooking oil to use on the important things that they were formerly utilizing it for," said Greg Archer with Transport & Environment.<br>
+<br>"And they're just buying more virgin oil which virgin oil is mainly palm oil, because that's the most inexpensive oil readily available.<br>
+<br>"So indirectly, we're just [motivating](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) more deforestation in Southeast Asia."<br>
+<br>Another major problem with UCO is the suspicion of fraud.<br>
+<br>Because of need from Europe, the rate of UCO is frequently greater than palm oil. The worry is that some unscrupulous traders are merely diluting deliveries of UCO with palm.<br>
+<br>As oils of various types are mixed in bulk for transportation, and no testing of the materials is brought out, some professionals believe scams is swarming.<br>
+<br>The suggestion of fraud anywhere along the chain of supply is rejected by the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), who say there are robust accreditation plans in location.<br>
+<br>"It is extensively known that the European Commission has actually taken pertinent actions to completely suppress unsound market practices in [biofuel](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) markets," said Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.<br>
+<br>He says a brand-new database being established by the EU will ensure that trading, certification and sustainability data on all bio-liquids will have to be signed up.<br>
+<br>"The combination of revised certification schemes and the pan-EU track and trace database will make sure that no sustainability problems develop in the entire biofuels and bio-liquids supply chain," he told BBC News.<br>
+<br>Others in the field are concerned that the database idea, which was very first mooted in 2018, might not work in stemming suspected fraud.<br>
+<br>The report from Transport & Environment explains that with shipping and aviation looking to decarbonise by utilizing biofuels, demand for UCO might double over the next decade.<br>
+<br>"Rising the demand beyond sustainable supply levels would increase these concerns, and threats of utilizing 'phony' UCO, potentially causing indirect effects such as [deforestation](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/)."<br>
+<br>Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc, external.<br>
+<br>Related subjects<br>
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