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Sustainable solutions
Lee delves deeper into BioteCH 4
’ s cooking oil transformation operations , which have been happening since late 2023 across its facilities . “ Using an oil decanter , we extract edible oils from our food waste processing activities and monetize them by selling them into the biofuels market . The key driver for the creation of this operation was our desire to find another source of long-term , sustainable income that would not interrupt our anaerobic digestion process . It also has major environmental benefits . To do this , we partnered with a technology company to implement a process that skims the oil content out of our feedstock rather than letting it run through our biogas process . The resulting edible oil can then be sold into the biofuels market , which is under pressure to make more sustainable aviation fuel and biodiesel . One of the best ways to make these fuels is to utilize used cooking oils in the process , which is highly sustainable because it is being produced from waste . As a result , the market can get closer to meeting its targets for sustainable aviation fuel . In the UK , the target is for 30 percent of air travel to be powered by sustainable fuel , but meeting this goal would require significantly more oil than the industry currently produces ,” he enlightens .
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