Houshold waste cooking oil bins to be installed at five AEON MALLs in Osaka Prefecture

AEON MALL Co., Ltd., Kansai Airports, SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY, and REVO International Inc. are collaborating to install household waste cooking oil bins at five AEON MALLs in Osaka Prefecture, starting from early January 2025. The collected household waste cooking oil will be recycled as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This initiative is part of the “Fly to Fly Project” proposed by JGC Holdings Corporation involving around 170 companies and municipalities to achieve a decarbonized society through domestic resource recycling. Kanai Airports, which operates the three airports in the Kansai region, reached out to these companies to collaborate on this initiative.  

SAF is a sustainable fuel that is expected to significantly reduce CO2 emissions towards decarbonization in the aviation sector, but securing sufficient amounts of waste cooking oil as a raw material is one of the challenges. This time, REVO International will collect household waste cooking oil from bins and transport it to SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY's first large-scale SAF production plant in Japan, which is scheduled to start operations in fiscal 2025. The collected oil will be used as a raw material for domestic SAF production. In Sakai City of Osaka Prefecture, where the SAF production plant will be built, and at AEON MALLs located in Sennan City and Izumisano City near Kansai International Airport, we will establish collection points to gather household waste cooking oil from customers, and make efforts to address the challenges of securing raw materials by increasing the amount of waste cooking oil collected for SAF production. At the same time, we will aim to reduce local waste and promote a society where waste is recycled as a resource. 

At AEON MALLs serving as collection points, we will promote the “Town Action!” initiative with the local community to realize a sustainable society. This initiative is part of three environmental goals proposed by AEON MALL: “Achieving a Decarbonized Society,” “Realizing a Circular Mall,” and “Conserving Biodiversity.” As malls where various resources converge, we aim to create a “Circular Mall” that serves as a starting point for a society where resources and the economy circulate, in collaboration with customers, specialty stores, and the local communities.