Updated by "Forest Circular Economy" Editorial Board on July 09, 2025, 6:40 PM JST
Editorial Board, Forest Circular Economy
Forestcircularity-editor
We aim to realize "Vision 2050: Japan Shines, Forest Circular Economy" promoted by the Platinum Forest Industry Initiative. We will disseminate ideas and initiatives to promote biomass chemistry, realize woody and lumbery communities, and encourage innovation in the forestry industry in order to fully utilize forest resources to decarbonize the economy, strengthen economic security, and create local communities.
JGC Holdings, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, All Nippon Airways, and Japan Airlines jointly announced that they have started supplying domestically produced SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), which is partly made from waste cooking oil, to scheduled passenger flights departing from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport). Through this initiative, they aim to expand the use of sustainable aviation fuel and promote the recycling of domestic resources and the decarbonization of the aviation industry.
As part of the "Fly to Fly Project" proposed by JGC Holdings, the company aims to realize a world where aircraft can fly on domestically produced SAF made from waste cooking oil generated in homes and stores.
The stable supply of waste cooking oil, the raw material for domestic SAF, is a key issue for its widespread use, and public-private partnership efforts are underway to resolve this issue. JGC Holdings and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch the "Tokyo Fry to Fly Project" in March 2024. In May 2025, JGC Holdings and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch the "Household Oil Collection Campaign" to promote the collection of used cooking oil and encourage Tokyo residents to change their behavior. In addition, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been actively promoting activities, such as launching the nation's first "Domestic SAF Utilization Promotion Project" to subsidize the price difference between domestically produced SAF and SAF from overseas.
The production of internationally competitive domestically produced SAF will help reduce CO2 emissions, create new growth industries, and strengthen energy security. The start of supply this time is a concrete step toward the establishment of an integrated supply chain in Japan, from procurement of raw materials to manufacturing and refueling at airports, and is an important milestone toward Japan's goal of building a resource-recycling society.
