Neste and Lassila & Tikanoja have signed a partnership contract to use Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced entirely from waste and residues, in selected waste transportation vehicles of Lassila & Tikanoja in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Neste has launched the product in the Finnish market today, January 9, 2017. Compared to conventional fossil diesel, Neste MY Renewable Diesel has up to 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions during the life cycle of the fuel.
“I’m very happy to see important transportation operators such as Lassila & Tikanoja start using Neste MY Renewable Diesel immediately as it becomes available. Neste MY is an excellent solution for distribution and transportation businesses, because it significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and the local emissions that deteriorate the quality of air in the city. High-quality Neste MY Renewable Diesel can be used in existing vehicles. It suits all diesel engines, at any blending ratio,” says Panu Kopra, Executive Vice President of Oil Retail at Neste.
“Lassila & Tikanoja aims to adjust the current consumer society into an efficient recycling society. Neste MY, manufactured wholly from waste and residue, fits well into our policy. It will help us reach our goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 25 per cent before 2020, compared to the level and volume of 2012,” says Jorma Mikkonen, Director of Corporate Relations and Responsibility at Lassila & Tikanoja.
This Christmas, Neste and Lassila & Tikanoja worked together in a campaign to collect ham fat. The campaign encouraged people to bring the waste fat from their roast ham to be used as raw material for renewable diesel. Many businesses and organizations joined the campaign. Lassila & Tikanoja took on the collection of the waste fat and its transportation to preprocessing. At Porvoo Refinery, Neste turns the ham fat into renewable diesel. Early this year, the value of the collected waste fat will be donated to charities.
Neste MY Renewable Diesel is available from selected stations in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and its distribution will also expand to Neste Truck stations in Finland during January.