In Scotland, the Scotland Borders Council launched a new service that allows the public to recycle their leftover cooking oils. The new service will see the collected oil cleaned, filtered and processed into biofuel, for use as vehicle fuel or for power and energy generation. The service is now available at all seven community recycling […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that world soybean production could grow significantly in the 2018/19 marketing year. However, output will unlikely be sufficient to satisfy demand, which would lead to a further reduction in stocks. In its June report, the USDA has projected global soybean production in 2018/19 at 355 million tonnes. This translates to an […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production averaged 1.072 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 45.02 million gallons daily, according to government data released this morning and analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Output grew 8,000 b/d over the week before, climbing to a 26-week high. The four-week average for ethanol production lifted to 1.057 million b/d—the highest […]
In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., a company developing new technologies to create step-change improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security, published research describing the development of its Camelina platform as a model crop for novel yield trait discovery. The research paper titled “Camelina sativa, an oilseed at the nexus between model system and […]
In Washington, D.C., the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee has appointed several new volunteers from industry, academia, nonprofits, and local government to the TAC which advises the federal government about its bioenergy R&D programs. These are the first appointments to the TAC by the current Trump administration. New members include Doug Faulkner (Co-Chair) […]
With summer heating up and many headed to shorelines and beaches all around the world, we focus on Hawaii which has been surfing up lots of news lately. Just a few days ago, the United States Geological Survey revealed that the Kilauea volcano is undergoing the “largest scale collapse” of its summit in recent history. […]
In the United Kingdom, a new app called Almond allows consumers to learn about the product they scan including where each ingredient has come from, the supply chain route and its carbon footprint. Consumers scan the unique hidden codes printed on the product packaging to learn more about the product they are consuming and earn […]
In the Czech Republic, Chemoprojekt is launching production of biodiesel made from waste frying oil and will be the first company in the country to do so, according to the daily Hospodářské noviny. “We expect to launch the production of biofuels from waste cooking oil at the end of September or beginning of October. The […]
In California, Riverbend Park soccer fields are getting a new soil amendment to help conserve water and carbon storage that is made by Living X Elements. The soil amendment called Oyster X SmartSink is made from pine trees killed by bark beetles and mimics an oyster which can filter up to 50 gallons of water […]
In Finland, UPM Biofuels welcomes the initial agreement on the revised Renewable Energy Directive as it creates an obligatory advanced biofuel blending mandate in all EU Member States starting at 0.2% in 2022, double counted, and rising to 3.5% in 2030. “The UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery, the world’s first to produce wood-based renewable diesel on a […]
