Neste, Hesburger go to restaurants to produce renewable diesel
Neste and Hesburger launch a significant circularity collaboration by using cooking oil collected from more than 300 restaurants.
Neste and Hesburger, a Finnish restaurant chain, will engage in a significant circular economy collaboration. Used cooking oil from more than 300 Hesburger restaurants in Finland and in the Baltics will be recycled to produce renewable diesel. As a result of the collaboration, Hesburger will begin using Neste MY Renewable Diesel in the majority of its transport vehicles in Finland.
“Every year, our restaurants in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania produce up to 420 tons of used cooking oil which is collected and transported as ecologically as possible. Neste uses the cooking oil and other renewable waste and residue raw materials to produce renewable diesel to be used also in Hesburger’s trucks. As the used cooking oil is collected by trucks delivering goods to the restaurants, it will not result in extra mileage,” says Heini Santos, Communications Manager at Hesburger.
Hesburger’s transportation vehicles that will begin using Neste’s renewable diesel travel annually a total of roughly 680,000 kilometers. By replacing fossil diesel with Neste’s renewable diesel, the amount of annually reduced greenhouse gas emissions compares to removing as many as 350 private cars from Finland’s roads for one year.
Only 6% of Finns consider climate actions easy outside their own home
In September 2021, Neste and Hesburger conducted a consumer survey on climate actions of 1,000 people in Finland. A total of 52% of the respondents considered everyday actions related to the climate to be easier in matters related to their own home and living.
“Concrete actions and close collaborations between companies are needed to combat climate change. This circularity collaboration with Hesburger is a concrete example of how collaboration can improve sustainability,” says Heidi Peltonen, Team Lead for Sustainable Partnerships in Marketing & Services at Neste.
