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

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.

The successful projects will also slash CO2 emissions by an average of 200,000 tonnes each year once fully up and running – the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars off the road.