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Project to fuel aircraft with bin liners awarded share of £165m

Government
Will Payne
22 December 2022

An initiative working to repurpose everyday household and commercial waste – such as black bin liners – into sustainable jet fuel has been awarded a share of £165 million. 

The airlines will engage in negotiations on the possible pre-purchase of verified carbon removal credits starting in 2025 through to 2028

It comes as part of the UK government’s Advanced Fuels Fund, which provides grants to companies working with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as part of the industry’s aim to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

Other successful projects include a SAF plant in Port Talbot which will convert steel mill off-gases into sustainable jet fuel and the early development of a SAF plant using carbon capture and hydrogen made from renewable electricity.

Building on the success of the Green Fuels, Green Skies programme, the five projects will alone produce more than 300,000 tonnes of SAF a year – enough to fly to the moon and back an estimated 60 times.