BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport to Recycle Cooking Oil into Sustainable Aviation Fuel
by Elizabeth Baker (Passenger Terminal Today) Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport in Maryland is to collect used cooking oil generated by its 50 hospitality partners, which will then be used as raw material to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or other renewable products.
This initiative forms part of the airport’s sustainability project Solution Zero, which was launched in partnership with Fraport USA and cooking oil collection company Mahoney Environmental to support zero-waste, zero-cost operations at the airport. In 2020, Fraport engaged Mahoney Environmental to conduct a study of used cooking oil collection and recycling for the entire concessions program. The study included the use of equipment, time-and-motion analytics and overall efficiency measures. READ MORE