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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Arthur Neslen

Europe and UK pour 17,000 tons of cooking oil into vehicles a day

A rapeseed flower field outside Dnipro amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Vegetable oil prices are spiralling due to the war in Ukraine, which is Europe’s largest supplier of rapeseed. Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters

Europe and the UK are pouring 17,000 tons – or about 19 million bottles – of cooking oil into vehicle fuel tanks every day, even though it is up to two-and-a-half times more expensive than before 2021, according to new analysis.

The equivalent of another 14 million bottles a day of palm and soy oil – mostly from Indonesia and South America – is also burned for fuel, the research says.

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