Sustainability glossary

Used cooking oil

Also called UCO

Oil and fat already used for frying, collected from restaurants and food processors. It is the lowest-carbon mainstream HVO feedstock on attributional accounting, at about 14 g CO₂e/MJ, but supply is limited and prone to mislabeling.

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