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Airline to use cooking oil

Dutch airline KLM plans to use recycled cooking oil as biofuel to power flights to and from France.

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The airline does not have to make any changes to its aircraft engines to use the new biofuel.

The flights are intended to help reduce KLM's carbon emissions.

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The fuel, biokerosene, is derived from used frying oil, the BBC reports, and must be tested to meet the technical specifications that kerosene does.

The airline said its supplies would come from hotels, restaurants and factories, the BBC said.


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