MARKET STRUCTURE · ASIA
Türkiye bans pouring household vegetable oils
Change
Türkiye revised its vegetable waste oil regulation to prohibit disposing household vegetable and animal cooking oils into sinks, sewers, soil, the sea, or other receiving environments and requires municipal collection.
Why it matters
The regulation prohibits pouring household vegetable and animal waste oils into sinks, sewers, soil, the sea, or any other receiving environment. It requires municipalities to establish collection systems, collection points and mobile collection centers for household used oils. Retail sales points are required to accept sealed used-oil containers from consumers and deliver them to licensed facilities. Collected oils are limited to licensed biorefineries and transfer points for use in biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel production; blending directly into fuel or use in feed, cosmetics, or cooking is prohibited.
Implications
- · Municipalities face new operational obligations to establish and operate household used-oil collection infrastructure and mobile collection centers.
- · Retailers and markets will incur reverse-logistics and storage responsibilities to accept sealed used-oil containers and forward them to licensed facilities.
- · Licensed biorefineries and designated transfer points become the exclusive processors for household waste oils, concentrating feedstock supply and handling capacity.
- · Vegetable oil producers and packagers must apply mandated warning labels on packaging, increasing labeling compliance requirements.
Who is affected
- · Operators
Source
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