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Climate change: Growing doubts over chip fat [biofuel](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/)
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21 April 2021
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New research study questions the environmental effect of increasing imports of used cooking oil (UCO) into the UK and Europe.
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Chip fat and other oils are thought about waste, so when they are utilized to make biodiesel it conserves carbon emissions by displacing fossil oil.
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But such is the need throughout Europe that imports now represent more than half of the UCO that's made into fuel.
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According to the study, external, there's no chance to show these imports are [sustainable](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US).
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With no testing of what's coming in, professionals think it is also ripe for fraud.
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Used cooking oil imports might improve logging
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Consumers present 'growing threat' to tropical forests
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Reducing emissions from [transport](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) is proving to be among the most [difficult challenges](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) for federal governments all over the world.
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They've motivated the use of biofuels as an essential means of suppressing carbon from automobiles and trucks.
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Biofuels are usually a mix of nonrenewable fuel source and oil made from plants or [vegetables](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm).
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The truth that these crops can be re-grown and soak up more CO2 implies they counteract the carbon given off when utilized in engines.
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Soy and palm oil were when widely utilized as elements of biodiesel however this practice has been widely challenged because it encourages logging.
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So for the last years or so, the usage of utilized cooking oil has actually broadened enormously as an alternative feedstock for fuel.
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Chip fat and other [waste oils](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) have ended up being a crucial part of biodiesel with a reliable market springing up throughout Europe to collect and process the product.
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But with the quantity 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 because 2014, there simply isn't adequate chip fat to walk around.
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According to a report from the [campaign](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) group Transport & Environment, external, majority of the UCO utilized in Europe is imported.
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Their study recommends this is extremely bothersome when it pertains to effects on the environment.
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While UCO is considered a waste material in the UK, in China, [Indonesia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) and Malaysia it has long been utilized to [feed animals](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889). The report raises the question of what people in these [nations](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) are the UCO with, when it is exported.
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In 2019, [Malaysia exported](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) 90 million litres of UCO to the UK and Ireland. Figures for their exports to other European nations aren't available however the circulation of UCO is likely to be similar.
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With a population of around 33 million, that's close to 3 litres per head of utilized oil that's gathered and [exported](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) to the UK and Ireland alone.
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By comparison, Thailand, which has a [population](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) of 70 million people, managed to [collect](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048) around five million litres of UCO in 2019.
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"Because we are purchasing it, they have actually less utilized cooking oil to utilize on the things that they were formerly utilizing it for," stated Greg Archer with Transport & Environment.
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"And they're simply purchasing more virgin oil which virgin oil is largely palm oil, because that's the cheapest oil readily available.
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"So indirectly, we're just motivating more logging in Southeast Asia."
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Another significant issue with UCO is the suspicion of fraud.
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Because of demand from Europe, the price of UCO is typically higher than palm oil. The worry is that some dishonest traders are just diluting deliveries of UCO with palm.
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As oils of various types are mixed in bulk for transportation, and no testing of the materials is performed, some professionals believe fraud is swarming.
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The suggestion of scams anywhere along the chain of supply is rejected by the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), who state there are robust certification plans in place.
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"It is commonly known that the European Commission has taken appropriate actions to totally suppress unsound market [practices](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) in [biofuel](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) markets," stated Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.
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He says a new database being developed by the EU will make sure that trading, certification and sustainability data on all bio-liquids will have to be registered.
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"The mix of revised certification plans and the [pan-EU track](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) and trace database will [guarantee](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) that no [sustainability concerns](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) occur in the entire biofuels and [bio-liquids supply](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) chain," he told BBC News.
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Others in the field are concerned that the database concept, which was very first mooted in 2018, may not work in stemming believed fraud.
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The report from Transport & Environment points out that with shipping and aviation aiming to decarbonise by utilizing biofuels, need for UCO could double over the next decade.
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"Rising the demand beyond sustainable supply levels would increase these concerns, and threats of utilizing 'phony' UCO, possibly leading to indirect impacts such as logging."
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