Used cooking oil may be fueling your next flight

用过的食用油可能正在为您的下一次航班提供动力。

Round Table China

2025-12-18

21 分钟
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The global push for carbon reduction is reshaping supply chains in unexpected ways. As aviation looks for viable paths to decarbonize, attention has turned to materials that already exist in everyday life. Waste, once treated as an endpoint, is increasingly viewed as a starting point. Used cooking oil is being elevated into a prized raw material in China as sustainable aviation fuel. Are environmental goals, industrial capacity, and global demand happily colliding here? / AI hits the streets: from sidewalks to startups (13:42). On the show: Niu Honglin, Laiming & Yushun
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • The global push for carbon reduction is reshaping supply chains in unexpected ways.

  • As aviation looks for viable paths to decarbonize,

  • attention has turned to materials that already exist within our everyday life.

  • Waste, once treated as an endpoint, is increasingly veiled as a starting point.

  • China's used cooking oil is being elevated into a priced raw material for sustainable aviation fuel.

  • Our environmental goals, industrial capacity, and global demand happily colliding here.

  • And, imagine a familiar street corner at dusk, someone is setting up a folding table,

  • a small crowd gathers, phones come out, cure codes are scanned.

  • But this isn't food or toys, it's AI, helping you mix a custom perfume,

  • practice a billard shot, or play a game of chess against a robotic arm.

  • The most advanced technology of our time has quietly stepped off the cloud and onto the sidewalk.

  • tried, have you tried any of this just yet?

  • Let's talk about the AI-powered street stalls.

  • But before that...

  • The story of sustainable aviation field is often told through emissions charts and policy documents.

  • But at its core, it is also a story about perception.

  • What society once considered dangerous, useless, or disposable can,

  • under new pressures, become valuable and even strategic.