Repsol collects used cooking oil to make renewable fuels

The circular economy is one of the main axes of transformation of Repsol's industrial complexes to achieve zero net emissions by 2050.

Repsol has set up 134 collection points for used cooking oil at its service stations in the Madrid region. This is a new service that the company is offering customers from today to facilitate the sustainable management of domestic waste. The company promotes the circular economy by using this oil as a raw material to produce renewable fuels, with zero net CO2 emissions.

"This new service reinforces our link with the customer, who is at the heart of our business. We hope that they will welcome this action with the same enthusiasm with which we are implementing it. This initiative also exemplifies our commitment to the circular economy and the decarbonisation of transport, which we want to involve our customers in", said Valero Marín, Repsol's General Manager of the Customer Area.

Users of the Waylet application will also be able to benefit from a discount of 30 cents per litre of used cooking oil delivered to the points available in the Madrid region for the next refuelling.

Repsol will start up in Cartagena the first plant on the Iberian Peninsula that will produce 250,000 tonnes of advanced biofuels from waste per year, which will be added to the 750,000 tonnes that the company currently produces.