Total to use 10% rapeseed at La Mede biorefinery to appease farmers

In France, Reuters reports that Total plans to appease protesting French farmers by using 50,000 metric tons of rapeseed as feedstock at its La Mede biorefinery, around 10% of the facility’s total production capacity, despite the company’s CEO saying it wasn’t the “most profitable” feedstock for the plant. Original plans were for 100% imported palm oil but protests forced the company to include as much as 30% animal fats, used cooking oil and lower grade wastes from palm oil production.

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