News / Demand for SAF and biodiesel outstripping (questionable) supplies

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Consumers in Europe and China have already blown through half their available feedstock of used cooking oil (UCO) biofuel, believes Transport & Environment, leaving scant prospect that further utilisation will achieve much in terms of decarbonisation.

The US has also already harnessed just over a third of its annual UCO yield as fuel.

And worse, the figures presented already include a proportion of biofuel feedstock made from virgin palm oil.

This fraction is grown on deforested palm plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, imported ...