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Climate modification: Growing doubts over chip fat [biofuel](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb)
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21 April 2021
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New research [questions](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) the ecological impact of increasing imports of utilized 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](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) it conserves carbon emissions by [displacing fossil](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) oil.
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But such is the need across Europe that imports now [represent](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) over half of the UCO that's made into fuel.
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According to the study, external, there's no method to prove these imports are sustainable.
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With no testing of what's coming in, professionals think it is likewise ripe for fraud.
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Used cooking oil imports might enhance deforestation
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Consumers position 'growing threat' to tropical forests
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Reducing emissions from transportation is showing to be among the toughest challenges for federal governments all over the world.
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They have actually motivated the usage of biofuels as an essential ways of [suppressing carbon](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) from cars and trucks and [lorries](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile).
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[Biofuels](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) are generally a blend of fossil fuel and oil made from plants or vegetables.
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The fact that these crops can be re-grown and absorb more CO2 [suggests](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) they cancel out the carbon produced when utilized in engines.
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Soy and palm oil were when commonly utilized as elements of [biodiesel](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) but this practice has been commonly discredited because it motivates logging.
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So for the last years or so, making use of used cooking oil has actually expanded massively as an alternative feedstock for fuel.
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Chip fat and other waste oils have actually ended up being an essential component of biodiesel with an efficient market emerging across Europe to collect and process the product.
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But with the quantity of biodiesel made from UCO increasing by around 40% every year given that 2014, there merely isn't [adequate chip](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) fat to walk around.
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According to a report from the project group Transport & Environment, external, more than half of the UCO utilized in Europe is imported.
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Their research study suggests this is highly troublesome when it comes to impacts on the environment.
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While UCO is considered a waste material in the UK, in China, Indonesia and Malaysia it has actually long been used to [feed animals](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html). The report raises the question of what people in these nations are changing the UCO with, when it is exported.
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In 2019, Malaysia exported 90 million litres of UCO to the UK and Ireland. Figures for their exports to other European countries [aren't offered](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) but the flow of UCO is most likely to be similar.
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With a [population](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) of around 33 million, that's close to 3 litres per head of used oil that's collected and [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) to the UK and [Ireland](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) alone.
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By contrast, Thailand, which has a population of 70 million individuals, managed to collect around 5 million litres of UCO in 2019.
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"Because we are buying it, they have less utilized cooking oil to utilize on the things that they were previously utilizing it for," stated Greg Archer with Transport & Environment.
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"And they're simply buying more virgin oil which virgin oil is mostly palm oil, because that's the most affordable oil readily available.
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"So indirectly, we're just more [logging](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) in Southeast Asia."
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Another significant problem with UCO is the suspicion of scams.
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Because of need from Europe, the cost of UCO is frequently greater than palm oil. The concern is that some deceitful traders are merely diluting deliveries of UCO with palm.
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As oils of different types are blended in bulk for transport, and no testing of the products is performed, some experts think scams is swarming.
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The tip of scams anywhere along the chain of supply is turned down by the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA), who state there are robust certification plans in location.
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"It is [extensively](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) known that the European Commission has taken appropriate steps to totally suppress unsound market practices in [biofuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) markets," said Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.
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He states a new database being established by the EU will make sure that trading, certification and sustainability information on all bio-liquids will need to be signed up.
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"The combination of revised certification plans and the [pan-EU track](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) and trace database will ensure that no sustainability problems develop in the entire biofuels and [bio-liquids supply](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) chain," he told BBC News.
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Others in the field are worried that the database concept, which was first mooted in 2018, may not work in stemming thought scams.
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The report from Transport & Environment points out that with shipping and air travel wanting to decarbonise by utilizing biofuels, demand for UCO could double over the next decade.
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"Rising the need beyond sustainable supply levels would increase these concerns, and risks of using 'phony' UCO, potentially causing indirect effects such as deforestation."
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