Environment
Data suggesting large amounts of used cooking oil repurposed for biofuels is ‘fraudulent’
There are concerns that used cooking oil imported into Europe is actually palm oil from Indonesia or Malaysia
New data suggests a large volume of used cooking oil used for renewable biofuels in Europe is fraudulent and may be coming from virgin palm oil, an industry expert has claimed.
James Cogan, a policy advisor with the biofuel company Ethanol Europe, recently received data from the European Commission on the origins of used cooking oil which goes into Europe’s biodiesel and HVO fuels.
Ireland relies on used cooking oil for over two-thirds of its ...
