Repsol launched a used cooking oil collection service this Friday at 134 service stations in the Community of Madrid to promote the recycling of this common household waste.
The company chaired by Antonio Brufau is immersed in the development of sustainable energy projects to promote the development of renewable fuels and offer usable clean energy for current combustion engines as well as to achieve the goal of becoming a zero emissions company in 2050 .
The general manager of Repsol’s client area, Valero MarÃn, presented the initiative on Friday at a gas station in Las Rozas, Madrid, together with the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Agriculture, Paloma MartÃn, since the project is the result of collaboration between the multinational and regional government.
In the coming weeks, up to 150 Madrid gas stations will be enabled to collect the used cooking oil that customers must deliver in liter plastic bottles. This waste will be the basis of the new fuels developed by the company.
To encourage this practice, Repsol will pay users of Waylet, its loyalty application, 30 cents per liter that can be exchanged for points for future refueling of their vehicles or to purchase other products at the company’s more than 3,300 service stations in Spain.
“It is important to remember that one liter of this liquid can contaminate 1,000 liters of water. Recycling this product is also essential to avoid damage to the pipes, since, in most cases, it is thrown into the sink sinkâ€, emphasized Paloma MartÃn.
The circular economy is a key tool to achieve this and renewable fuels and circular materials are just two examples of the products that are already being manufactured in its industrial centers from alternative raw materials.
In October 2021, the A Coruña refinery processed 500 tons of used cooking oil for the first time to manufacture renewable diesel.
This year, Repsol will start up the first plant on the Iberian Peninsula in Cartagena (Murcia Region), which will manufacture 250,000 tons of advanced biofuels from waste each year, in addition to the 750,000 tons that the company currently produces.
Repsol has set itself the goal of reaching the production of 1.3 million tons of renewable fuels in 2025 and 2 million tons in 2030.
The recycling of cooking oil is just one of the lines of collaboration between the multinational and the Community of Madrid. Both also work together to encourage the use of renewable energy in public facilities and the promotion and development of self-consumption models for citizens, through solar and energy communities.
The next axis of collaboration will be the achievement of sustainable and inclusive mobility in the region, with the adoption of multiple sustainable solutions, such as renewable fuels, electric mobility and renewable hydrogen.
In this sense, Repsol signed an agreement with the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium last August to promote the adoption of these sustainable solutions among the operators that are part of the public network that it manages.
