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[Climate](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) modification: Growing doubts over chip fat biofuel
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21 April 2021
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New research concerns the ecological impact of rising imports of utilized cooking oil (UCO) into the UK and Europe.
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Chip fat and other oils are considered waste, so when they are used to make [biodiesel](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) it saves carbon emissions by displacing fossil oil.
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But such is the demand throughout Europe that imports now represent majority of the UCO that's made into fuel.
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According to the research study, external, there's no other way to prove these imports are sustainable.
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With no [testing](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) of what's coming in, professionals believe it is also ripe for scams.
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Used cooking oil [imports](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) might enhance logging
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Consumers pose 'growing threat' to tropical forests
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Reducing emissions from transport is proving to be one of the most difficult difficulties for governments all over the world.
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They've motivated making use of biofuels as a crucial methods of curbing carbon from cars and trucks and lorries.
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Biofuels are usually a blend of nonrenewable fuel source and oil made from plants or [vegetables](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/).
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The truth that these crops can be [re-grown](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) and take in more CO2 means they cancel out the carbon given off when used in engines.
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Soy and palm oil were as soon as widely utilized as elements of biodiesel however this practice has actually been extensively discredited since it motivates logging.
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So for the last decade or two, making use of utilized cooking oil has expanded massively as an [alternative feedstock](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) for fuel.
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[Chip fat](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) and other waste oils have become a crucial element of [biodiesel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) with an efficient market throughout Europe to collect and process the item.
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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 since 2014, there simply isn't sufficient chip fat to go around.
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According to a report from the campaign group Transport & Environment, external, majority of the UCO utilized in Europe is imported.
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Their study suggests this is highly troublesome when it concerns effects on the environment.
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While UCO is thought about a waste product in the UK, in China, Indonesia and [Malaysia](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) it has long been utilized to [feed animals](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608). The report raises the concern of what individuals in these [nations](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) are replacing 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 nations aren't available but the flow 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 collected and [exported](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) to the UK and Ireland alone.
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By comparison, Thailand, which has a population of 70 million individuals, [handled](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) to gather around five million litres of UCO in 2019.
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"Because we are purchasing it, they have less used 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 largely palm oil, since that's the least expensive oil available.
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"So indirectly, we're just motivating more deforestation 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 rate of UCO is often higher than palm oil. The concern is that some unethical traders are merely watering down shipments of UCO with palm.
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As oils of different types are blended in bulk for transportation, and no testing of the products is performed, some professionals believe scams is swarming.
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The tip 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 schemes in place.
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"It is extensively understood that the European Commission has actually taken appropriate steps to completely [suppress unsound](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) market practices in [biofuel](https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-178469/company/) markets," stated Angel Alberdi, EWABA's secretary general.
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He states a new database being developed by the EU will make sure that trading, accreditation and sustainability data on all bio-liquids will need to be registered.
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"The combination of modified certification schemes and the pan-EU track and trace database will [guarantee](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) that no sustainability issues occur in the whole [biofuels](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) and [bio-liquids supply](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) chain," he told BBC News.
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Others in the field are concerned that the database idea, which was first mooted in 2018, might not be efficient in stemming presumed scams.
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The report from Transport & Environment mentions that with shipping and aviation wanting to decarbonise by using biofuels, need for UCO might double over the next years.
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"Rising the need beyond [sustainable supply](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) levels would increase these concerns, and threats of utilizing 'fake' UCO, possibly leading to indirect effects such as deforestation."
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