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Efforts to utilize waste cooking oil for SAF (sustainable aviation fuel)

Last Updated December 12, 2024

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What is SAF?

 With the latest technology, aviation fuel can be produced from cooking oils (waste cooking oils) used in homes and offices. Air fuels made from waste cooking oil are called SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel Sustainable Aviation Fuel) and can reduce life cycle CO2 emissions by about 80% compared to conventional aviation fuels.

Participation in the Fry to Fly Project

 The Fry to Fly Project aims to promote resource decarbonization in Japan by promoting the collection of waste cooking oil discharged from homes and stores, etc., and conducting educational activities related to the utilization of waste cooking oil in SAF in cooperation with local governments. Yokohama City participated in April 2023. For more information, please visit the following website.

Efforts to convert household waste cooking oil into SAF in cooperation with JAL

 It is said that about 100,000 tons of household waste cooking oil is disposed of throughout Japan every year. Yokohama City and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) have concluded a cooperation agreement on the construction of a system for collecting waste cooking oil generated at home in Yokohama City and recycling it into SAF, etc., and promoting social implementation. I am.

About "Let's fly the sky with oil" project

 JAL collects household waste cooking oil at stores with the cooperation of supermarkets in the city that have agreed to the initiative. Special collection bottle of waste cooking oil collected at home ※So, please bring it to the store and pour it in a special collection box. You can take the collection bottle home and use it as many times as you like.
※If you participate in the "Let's fly in the sky with squid oil" project (participation fee 200 yen excluding tax), you will receive a JAL original UCO bottle. You can bring it with plastic bottles, etc., but PET bottles after oiling cannot be recycled, so containers will not be collected at stores. Please use a convenient special collection bottle.

Collection bases in the city

The oil that can be recovered at the store is as follows. Please check it and bring it to the store.
[Oil that can be recovered]
Liquid vegetable oil at room temperature
(Example) Salad oil, sesame oil, seed oil, corn oil, safflower oil, rice oil, soy oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, etc.
[Oils that cannot be recovered]
1 Solid vegetable oil at room temperature (e.g. margarine, shorting, palm oil, palm oil
2 Mineral oil (e.g., kerosene, engine oil)
3 Animal oil (e.g. butter, lard, fish oil, whale oil)
4 Mixed oil such as food and spices (e.g.) Dressing, lar oil, green onion oil, flavor oil
5 Business-related oil (Example) Oil from businesses such as restaurants

Efforts to date

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Inquiries to this page

Decarbonization / GREEN × EXPO Promotion Bureau Carbon Neutral Business Promotion Division, Decarbonized Society Transition Promotion Department

Telephone: 045-671-4155

Telephone: 045-671-4155

Fax: 045-550-3925

Email address: da-cn@city.yokohama.lg.jp

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