Swedish furniture retailer IKEA and Finnish refining group Neste plan to launch a commercial - scale pilot to produce polypropylene and plastic from used cooking oil and sustainable vegetable oil . The initiative , due to start production in the autumn , is part of a two - year collaboration between the two Nordic companies aimed at ending the use of fossil fuels to make plastics . The two companies claim the project is a the first of its kind . “This new material represents a significant step towards a fossil free future. Previously , only small - scale amounts of polypropylene and polyethylene have been produced in this way . IKEA aims to use the oil - based plastics to make products for its current range .
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA and Finnish refining group Neste plan to launch a commercial - scale pilot to produce polypropylene and plastic from used cooking oil and sustainable vegetable oil . The initiative , due to start production in the autumn , is part of a two - year collaboration between the two Nordic companies aimed at ending the use of fossil fuels to make plastics . The two companies claim the project is a the first of its kind . Previously , only small - scale amounts of polypropylene and polyethylene have been produced in this way . IKEA aims to use the oil - based plastics to make products for its current range .