Keep food scraps onshore for future aircraft fuel: industry
Australia faces the risk of losing its stake in the burgeoning biofuels market to nimble competitors like Singapore. To safeguard its position, urgent government action is needed to recognize agricultural waste and food scraps as vital resources for future fuel reserves. Transforming items like old cooking oils and sugarcane waste into eco-friendly fuels and catalysts could revolutionize industries such as aviation, steel, and even motorsports like Formula 1, helping to slash carbon footprints.
Australia’s place in a future biofuels boom could be lost to fast-moving rivals in Singapore unless the government acts quickly to treat agricultural waste and food scraps as its next strategic fuel reserve.
Old cooking oils, waste matter from crops like sugarcane and food scraps from households can be turned into carbon-neutral fuels and chemical catalysts that airlines, steelmakers and even motorsports like Formula 1 are increasingly hoping will minimise their carbon footprints.
Source Link: https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/keep-food-scraps-onshore-for-future-aircraft-fuel-industry-20240604-p5jj41
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