Japan Airlines (JAL) will start collecting used cooking oil (UCO) from households in Yokohama to use as a biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) feedstock.
UCO collection will start next month to produce biodiesel, and will be utilised for SAF after 2025, JAL said.
Collections will be led by the AEON Food Style Kamoi store operated by Japanese supermarket chain Daiei. The partnership was arranged after JAL and the municipality joined the Fry to Fly project.
JAL aims to replace 1pc of total fuel on board with SAF by 2025 and 10pc by 2030. The construction of Japan's first SAF manufacturing plant is underway at Sakai City, Osaka, with the goal of commercialising domestically produced SAF by 2025.
The 30,000 kl/yr SAF plant at Sakai aims to start up in the April 2024-March 2025 fiscal year, led by Japanese engineering firm JGC, refiner Cosmo Oil and biodiesel producer Revo International.
