Gasum teams up with Fazer to utilise food waste for biogas

Nordic energy company Gasum and food and confectionary group Fazer have entered into an agreement on the use of biogas in the transport of Fazer’s bakery products.
The inedible food waste generated at the bakeries is used to produce biogas in Gasum’s biogas plants.
This means that some of Fazer’s products travel across Finland using energy produced from Fazer’s own waste.
Fazer aims to cut its carbon footprint by at least 42% by 2030. Concrete ways to achieve this include using more renewable energy in production, making transport fossil-free and replacing natural gas with biogas.
Fazer currently uses two biogas trucks and biogas is used in 8% of transport.
The aim is to steadily increase the number of biogas and e-vehicles so that at the end of the decade all of Fazer’s transports are emission free, either by using electricity or renewable gas.
“Cooperation with Gasum is very important to Fazer Bakery and working together allows us to achieve significant benefits for the environment. We have calculated that by using our own food waste, we can run all the bakeries' full trailer combination routes for a year on biofuel,” said Jarno Hämäläinen, VP, supply chain at Fazer Bakery Finland.
“This collaboration with Fazer Bakery is a great example of Gasum's role as a partner to our customers in reducing emissions. It’s great that we can help in many ways, both in putting waste to good use and in low-emission transport. Only by working together can we effectively reduce emissions from industry and logistics in the years ahead,” added Ville Pesonen, vice president, industry and traffic at Gasum.
Going forward, Fazer also plans to start using e-methane, a renewable gas produced with renewable electricity and which Gasum will bring to market from 2027. Fazer Bakery is keen to pilot the use of e-methane in zero-emission transport.
Both biogas and e-methane are fully renewable fuels with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions on average 90% lower than using fossil fuel.
Gasum’s strategic goal is to bring seven terawatt hours (7 TWh) of renewable gas yearly to market by 2027.
Achieving this goal would mean a total yearly carbon dioxide reduction of 1.8 million tons for Gasum’s customers.