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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Waste is the new oil: why Aussie export may be rubbish

Chemically identical to conventional fuel, renewable diesel is made from cooking oil or animal fats. (Marion Rae/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's next multibillion-dollar export industry could be based on an unexpected mishmash of sugar cane, wood chips, algae, used cooking oil, animal by-products and construction and demolition debris.

The latter is being used by a Queensland company to establish a biofuels production facility - one of three being built in the race to cut emissions from challenging industries.

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