Aviation fuel from household waste

Shell, British Airways and Velocys are building together a huge facility that will be able to recycle household, commercial and production waste by turning it into fuel for aircraft. It will be the first such plant in Europe – origo wrote after Reuters.

Civil aviation accounts for 2.5 percent of global carbon emissions, but the industry according to estimates are expected to increase over the coming decades due to continued expansion in the sector. This creates a particularly contradictory situation where the industry’s target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2005 levels. (origo)