IKEA Finland opens gas station powered by its restaurants’ food waste
Finnish gas company Gasum has unveiled the world’s first gas filling station opened in conjunction with an IKEA store. Located at the IKEA store in Lommila, Espoo, Finland, it will offer biogas produced from food waste of Finland’s IKEA restaurants.
The new filling station, Gasum’s first this year, is part of the circular economy collaboration between the gas firm and IKEA Finland--biogas can fuel IKEA Finland’s own operations, its transport partners and consumers, and the same time IKEA restaurants’ food waste will be a component for biogas production.
”Our primary approach is to reduce food wastage at IKEA restaurants, but this enables the recovery of any minor amounts of food waste that are still generated. Cooperation with Gasum provides us with yet another way of creating a better everyday life in Finland,” said Tiina Suvanto, Country Sustainability Manager, IKEA Finland.
With the increasing demand for biogas in Finland, Gasum is planning to open a total of 35 new filling stations in the next few years, with seven of these already open.
”The State has promoted the transport use of biogas significantly through measures such as the energy key project support. Capacities for using gas as a vehicle fuel can be improved by increasing the production of gas and expanding the filling station network,” said Kimmo Tiilikainen, Finland’s Minister of Agriculture and the Environment.
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