Feedstocks
- Used Cooking Oil (UCO)
- Animal Fat
- Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)
- SSAO
- Fatty Acids, petrochemical industry
- Pyrolysis oil
We broker waste-based feedstocks, pyrolysis oil, biodiesel and additives. We match the right supply with the right buyer, and get the deal done.
Sustainable Commodities 3 B.V. is an independent brokerage for waste-based feedstocks and renewable fuels. We work between collectors, producers and end buyers, and we get paid for one thing: closing deals cleanly and on time.
We have spent years in this market with UCO and animal-fat collectors, FAME, HVO and SAF producers, blenders and the major oil companies. That network is what you are hiring. For oil companies and end buyers especially, our direct relationships with collectors and producers mean reliable, traceable volume. When you need a home for your product or a straight answer on a spec, we usually know who to call.
The way we work is simple. Honest market reads, no surprises, and full discretion on both sides of the trade. Whether it is your first cargo or your fiftieth, we keep it easy.
We broker and advise on the products below for collectors, producers, processors and end users. This list is not exhaustive, so if you have a product or a requirement that fits, just ask.
A page per market with the specification buyers screen on, the certification that decides the price, and the regulation that decides whether the cargo moves at all.
Tyre-derived, plastic-derived and biomass pyrolysis oil placed with refiners, steam crackers and carbon black producers.
Sustainable Commodities is an independent broker of pyrolysis oil, working from the Netherlands across Europe and beyond. We place tyre-derived pyrolysis oil (TPO), waste-plastic pyrolysis oil (PPO/WPPO) and biomass pyrolysis oil with refiners, steam crackers, carbon black producers and industrial fuel users. In practice a pyrolysis oil deal is decided by five numbers (chlorine, silicon, sulphur, water and metals) plus one question that catches most newcomers: is the oil a waste or a product?
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Post-industrial and post-consumer polyolefins, film, rigids, regrind and pellets, into EU recyclers and pyrolysis feed.
We broker post-industrial and post-consumer waste plastics: LDPE film, HDPE, PP, mixed rigids, regrind and recycled pellets, between waste management companies, recyclers, compounders and pyrolysis plants across Europe. Since May 2026 every non-EU movement has been reshaped by the EU Waste Shipment Regulation (EU) 2024/1157, and from 21 November 2026 exports of non-hazardous plastic waste from the EU to non-OECD countries are banned outright. Where your material goes next year is a different question from where it went last year.
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Bottle bales, hot-washed flake and rPET pellets including food-grade, where IV and PVC ppm set the price.
We broker waste PET across the chain: post-consumer bottle bales, hot-washed flake, and rPET pellets including food-grade material. PET is the most specification-driven recycled polymer in Europe, intrinsic viscosity, PVC contamination in parts per million and the colour breakdown will move the price more than volume ever does. Demand underneath it is regulatory: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40, which applies from 12 August 2026, sets binding recycled-content targets from 2030 that no converter can meet without contracted rPET.
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Crude, refined, technical-grade and non-food oils, acid oils, soapstock, PFAD and distillers corn oil.
We broker vegetable and technical oils, with the emphasis on grades that sit outside the food chain: technical and non-food grades, acid oils, soapstock, PFAD, palm acid oil and distillers corn oil, alongside crude and refined palm, soy, rape, sunflower and corn oil. Most of what we place is heading into an oleochemical, feed or energy outlet rather than a food one, which changes the specification that matters and the buyer that pays best.
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Collector volume placed with FAME, HVO and SAF producers, with the traceability chain that survives an audit.
We broker used cooking oil between collectors and aggregators on one side and FAME, HVO and SAF producers on the other, across Europe and on import parcels. UCO is a waste-based feedstock listed in Annex IX Part B of the Renewable Energy Directive, which is where its value comes from, and it means the ISCC EU certificate and the traceability behind it are part of the product, not paperwork attached to it. A cargo whose chain of custody does not survive an audit is worth a fraction of one that does.
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Category 1, 2 and 3 rendered fats into biodiesel, HVO, oleochemical and feed outlets under ABP rules.
We broker animal fats and tallow across all three ABP categories into biodiesel, renewable diesel, oleochemical and, where the category permits, feed outlets. The first question is never the specification, it is the category under Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, because that decides which outlets are legally available at all. Only once that is settled do FFA, titre, moisture and impurities decide the price.
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POME oil, spent bleaching earth oil and spent soapstock acid oil into European producers, with the classification settled first.
We broker POME oil, SBEO and SSAO into European biodiesel, HVO and SAF producers. Both are residues rather than primary products, and both trade almost entirely on their classification under EU renewable fuel rules, a question settled nationally, not at EU level. In this market the regulatory position in the destination country is worth more than a point of FFA, and it is where most POME conversations should start.
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UCOME, RME, TME and SME, single and double counting ISCC grades, priced on feedstock, CFPP and certification.
We broker FAME biodiesel: UCOME, RME, TME, SME and PME, across single counting, double counting and advanced ISCC grades, between producers, blenders, distributors and obligated parties. A FAME cargo is priced on three things at once: the specification (EN 14214 and the cold-flow grade), the feedstock behind the ester, and the certification that lets a blender count it. Get any one of the three wrong and the cargo does not trade at the number the seller expected.
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Renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and bionaphtha into fuel, aviation and petrochemical outlets.
We broker HVO renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and bionaphtha between producers, oil majors, distributors, aviation fuel suppliers and petrochemical buyers. These are hydrotreated products, so the conversation is different from FAME: they are chemically drop-in, which means the specification is rarely the obstacle and the feedstock traceability, the certification chain and the mandate treatment are.
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Rejected, contaminated and distressed parcels placed fast, while demurrage and storage are still running.
When a cargo fails, the clock costs more than the discount. We place off-spec, rejected, contaminated and distressed parcels, biodiesel outside EN 14214, vegetable oil with FFA or colour out, fats with a moisture or titre problem, commingled or heat-damaged parcels, and recycled polymer loads that failed inbound inspection. The commercial question is never "what is it worth" in the abstract. It is which buyer can physically run it, how fast they can take it, and what demurrage and storage are costing while everyone decides.
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The commercial half of a cargo loss: placing the material while your insurer, surveyor and adjuster handle the claim.
We are not an insurance intermediary and we give no insurance advice. What we do is the other half of a cargo loss. When a parcel is damaged, contaminated, rejected or held, the claim is handled by the cargo owner's insurer, surveyor, average adjuster and lawyers, and somebody still has to find a buyer who can actually take the material, quickly, before storage and demurrage eat the residual value. That commercial disposal is what we are brought in for, and it is rarely anyone else's job in the room.
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Polyolefin-derived oil into steam crackers and refineries. We are buying light and middle fraction; chlorine decides everything.
Waste plastic pyrolysis oil (PPO, also WPPO) is the highest-value pyrolysis oil, but only if it can reach a steam cracker. We broker it between plant operators and crackers, refiners and hydrotreaters across Europe. The gap between fuel value and circular-feedstock value is large, and two things close it: total chlorine down to single-digit ppm, and ISCC PLUS mass balance so the polymer producer downstream can make a certified circular claim. Everything else in the negotiation is secondary to those two. We are actively looking for light and middle fraction for buyers of ours; full range undistilled oil we will still look at, but the fractionated cuts place faster and better.
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End-of-life tyre oil into carbon black, industrial fuel and refinery upgrading. We are buying heavy fraction and non-distilled TPO.
Tyre pyrolysis oil is aromatic, high in sulphur and not a drop-in cracker feed, and confusing it with plastic-derived oil is the fastest way to lose credibility with a buyer. We broker TPO from end-of-life tyre processors into carbon black production, industrial and marine fuel blending, and refinery upgrading. It is a real market with real buyers; it is simply a different one from the circular-polymer chain that plastic pyrolysis oil sells into.
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Renewable diesel and HVO100 into distributors, majors and fleet users, priced on feedstock and certification.
HVO is a hydrocarbon, not an ester: which is why it behaves so differently from FAME and why the conversation moves so quickly past the specification. Made by hydrotreating vegetable oils, waste oils and fats, it is specified under EN 15940 for paraffinic diesel, and HVO100 can be used neat in approved applications. We broker it between producers, majors, distributors and large fleet users. What is actually being traded is the feedstock and the certificate: two identical litres of EN 15940 fuel can be worth materially different money depending on what they were made from and what the buyer can count.
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Neat and blended SAF into aviation fuel suppliers and airlines, under ASTM D7566 and the ReFuelEU obligation.
SAF is the tightest specification and the heaviest documentation of anything we broker, and the demand under it is a legal obligation rather than a commercial preference. We work between producers, aviation fuel suppliers, airlines and traders on neat and blended volume. Most of what actually moves today is HEFA-SPK, synthesized paraffinic kerosene from hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids, made from the same fats and oils that make HVO. It is certified under ASTM D7566 Annex A2, blends into conventional jet at up to 50 %, and once blended and released the fuel is redesignated as meeting ASTM D1655 and handled exactly like conventional jet fuel.
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Renewable naphtha into steam crackers for bio-based polymers, or into gasoline blending, the certificate decides which.
Bionaphtha is the light co-product of hydrotreating fats and oils into HVO and SAF, and it has two possible homes with very different economics. Into a steam cracker it becomes certified renewable feedstock for bio-based polymers, and the premium comes from the claim a brand owner can make downstream. Into gasoline blending it is a good blend component and prices much closer to fossil naphtha. We broker it between producers and both sets of buyers, and which route is open depends almost entirely on the certification.
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The full Part A and Part B lists, and what the split is actually worth in a negotiation.
Annex IX of the EU Renewable Energy Directive is the list that decides what a waste-based feedstock is worth. Part A covers advanced feedstocks and counts towards the advanced sub-target. Part B covers used cooking oil and category 1 and 2 animal fats, and is capped at 1.7 % of transport energy per member state. Below are both lists in full. The commercial point is not the list itself: it is that the same physical cargo can sit in different places depending on how it is classified and which member state it lands in.
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Fuels from non-recyclable waste and industrial waste gases: what counts, what does not, and why it is not a renewable fuel.
Recycled carbon fuels are liquid or gaseous fuels made from waste or exhaust gas of non-renewable origin, where the waste is no longer suitable for material recycling. In practice that means non-recyclable plastic waste and unavoidable industrial waste gases, usually converted by pyrolysis or gasification. The critical point, and the one that catches people out: an RCF is not a renewable fuel. It sits outside Annex IX entirely and is accounted for under its own rules, with a 70 % greenhouse gas saving threshold set by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1185.
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Crude and refined glycerine, where the purity and the MONG figure decide whether you are in the advanced feedstock market or the chemicals market.
We broker crude and refined glycerine. Crude glycerine is the co-product of biodiesel and oleochemical production, and it has an advantage many sellers do not realise they hold: it is listed in Annex IX Part A of the EU Renewable Energy Directive, at point (i), which puts it in the advanced feedstock category rather than the capped Part B category. Four numbers then decide which buyer you are actually talking to: purity, MONG, ash and residual methanol.
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The higher-alcohol co-product of ethanol distillation, placed into mineral processing, solvent and chemical outlets.
Fusel oil is the higher-alcohol fraction separated during ethanol distillation, made up mainly of amyl alcohols with smaller amounts of propanol, butanol and isobutanol. Volumes are meaningful wherever fuel ethanol is made at scale, and it is one of those co-products that gets sold cheaply because the producer treats it as a distillation nuisance rather than a chemical feedstock. We place it into mineral processing, solvent and chemical outlets, and we have people close to the Brazilian production base.
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Finding tank capacity through long-standing terminal contacts, plus freight optimisation and supply chain analysis.
We help counterparties find tank storage, and it is one of the more useful things we do that has nothing to do with buying or selling a cargo. Capacity in the ARA range and other European hubs is tight, certified capacity for waste-based feedstocks tighter still, and heated capacity for high-titre material tighter again. We have long-standing contacts on the terminal side and we use them, alongside freight optimisation and supply chain analysis.
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Renewable naphtha and kerosene from refineries co-processing bio feedstock with crude, under mass balance accounting.
Co-processing is a refinery running bio feedstock through its existing units alongside crude oil. The renewable and fossil molecules come out inseparably mixed, so the renewable share is established by mass balance accounting rather than by physical segregation. For aviation this route is limited: ASTM D1655 Annex A1 permits co-processing at up to 5 %, well below the 50 % blending limit available to HEFA-SPK produced as a standalone fuel. The attraction is that co-processing needs no new plant, so it delivers renewable volume from existing refineries.
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CTO, tall oil fatty acid and tall oil pitch, caught between biofuel and oleochemical demand for the same barrel.
Crude tall oil is a by-product of softwood kraft pulping, a mixture of fatty acids, rosin acids and neutral unsaponifiable material. Supply is capped by how much softwood pulp gets made, which is why this market behaves differently from every other feedstock we handle: biofuel producers and oleochemical producers compete for the same fixed barrel. Three numbers decide where a parcel goes: acid number, rosin acid content and unsaponifiables.
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Technical CNSL, acid grade and distilled cardanol from India, Vietnam, Brazil and West Africa into resins, friction linings and fuel.
CNSL is the dark, viscous phenolic liquid held in the cashew nut shell, and it is one of the few genuinely large-volume natural sources of long-chain phenols: anacardic acid, cardanol and cardol. That chemistry is why it is bought by resin, coatings and friction material manufacturers rather than purely as an energy product. We broker technical, acid and distilled grades from the producing regions, principally India, Vietnam, Brazil and West Africa.
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Acid oils and esterified acid oils, priced on total fatty acid rather than tonnage, where origin decides the Annex IX position.
Acid oils are the concentrated fatty acid streams that come out of vegetable oil refining, and esterified acid oils are those streams upgraded by esterification into material a biodiesel plant can actually run. Two things govern the trade. Commercially, total fatty acid is the pricing basis, not tonnage: you are buying the usable fraction, not the drum. Regulatory, the origin of the parent oil decides the Annex IX position and therefore much of the value.
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Pyrolysis oil projects and feedstock flows across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas.
This trade is inherently cross-border. Feedstock is collected where people live and eat, processed where there is capacity, and consumed where there is a mandate, and those are rarely the same place. We work on pyrolysis oil projects and feedstock flows across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, with team members in the Netherlands, Brazil, Scotland, England and the Czech Republic, and counterparty relationships considerably wider than that.
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Cold flow additives, KOH and methanol, plus the KM32 and NM30 alkoxide catalysts that run a biodiesel plant.
We do more than introduce buyers and sellers: we also supply additives and blending chemicals, and it is a real part of what we do rather than a sideline. Cold flow additives such as pour point depressants and CFPP improvers, process chemicals such as potassium hydroxide and methanol, and and the two alkoxide catalysts that actually run a biodiesel plant, KM32 and NM30. Where useful we pair that with the theoretical blend calculation and a hand blend tested at a partner laboratory, so the additive is chosen against a measured result rather than a datasheet.
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How ISCC EU and PLUS certification really works, and an introduction to a partner who gets you through it.
In this market the certificate is not paperwork, it is the product. Uncertified material cannot enter an EU renewable fuel claim, and the price difference between certified and uncertified is usually far larger than any audit fee. We are not a certification body and we do not audit. What we do is explain honestly what certification involves, introduce you to our certification partner, and stay involved so the scope you end up with is the scope you actually needed.
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Where REACH bites in waste-derived materials, and where the Annex V exemptions save you a registration.
Let us be straight: REACH is not our core business. We are a commodity brokerage, not a regulatory consultancy. But REACH decides whether some of what we broker can legally be placed on the EU market, and the question gets asked far too late far too often. Three points cover most situations: waste is outside REACH until end-of-waste; Annex V exempts a list that includes vegetable and animal fats and oils, many fatty acids and glycerol; and pyrolysis oil, as a UVCB, generally is not exempt.
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How UCO CIF Rotterdam, FOB China, Italian acid oil, HVO and ethanol are quoted, and why two quotes are often not comparable.
We do not publish price assessments and we do not republish anyone else's. Price reporting agencies license that work and it is not ours to give away. What we can do is more useful anyway: explain how each quotation is constructed, so you can tell whether two numbers are actually comparable, and give you a live read on where business is clearing when you ask. Most of the price confusion we see is not about the level. It is about the basis.
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Who we are and what we broker, summarised in thirteen languages for counterparties and AI assistants that do not work in English.
This trade runs in English. Incoterms, specifications, Annex IX, ISCC, CIF and FOB have no useful local equivalents, and a mistranslated acid number or cap is worse than no translation at all. So our technical pages stay in English by choice. What follows is an accurate summary of who we are and what we broker, in the languages of the markets we actually work in, with the trade terms deliberately left in English because that is how they are used everywhere.
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The full route from a tank of oil to a signed offtake: assay, waste status, certification, and who actually takes it.
Do not start by calling oil traders. Almost everyone does, and it is why so many first cargoes go nowhere. The route that works runs in four steps: prove exactly what your oil is, settle whether it is legally a waste or a product, get certified if you want the premium, and only then approach the buyers whose plant can actually run it. Skip a step and you will be asked for it later anyway, usually by the buyer you most wanted.
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Product to sell, supply to find, or a read on the market. One call or message is enough to get started.
We find the right counterparty, agree terms, and line up inspection, logistics and paperwork so nothing slips.
The deal gets done, on spec and on time, with full discretion on both sides of the trade.
We broker from the Netherlands, close to the Amsterdam and Rotterdam hubs where most of this product moves. With colleagues in the Czech Republic, Brazil and Scotland and a wide network of partners, we cover the trade worldwide.
Sustainable Commodities 3 B.V.We are an independent commodity brokerage in Lemmer, the Netherlands. We introduce sellers and buyers in waste-based feedstocks, renewable fuels and recycled polymer feedstocks, and we are paid a commission on concluded business. We never take title to the cargo and we do not trade on our own book, so neither side is bidding against its own broker.
Pyrolysis oil (tyre-derived TPO, plastic-derived PPO and biomass), waste plastics, waste PET, used cooking oil, animal fats and tallow, POME, SBEO, SSAO, food waste oil, fatty acids, vegetable and technical oils, crude and refined glycerine, fusel oil, FAME biodiesel, HVO, bionaphtha, SAF (HEFA-SPK) and co-processed naphtha and kerosene. We also place off-spec and distressed cargoes worldwide and help counterparties find tank storage.
Yes. Finding capacity is often what stands between a deal and no deal, particularly for certified or heated storage, and we have long-standing contacts on the terminal side. See storage and logistics.
No. We are a broker, not a trader. We do not take title, we do not hold positions and we do not speculate. Our interest is in a deal that performs on both sides, because a cargo that fails at discharge costs us the relationship.
We broker from Lemmer in the Netherlands, close to the Amsterdam and Rotterdam hubs where most of this product moves, with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Brazil and Scotland. Business is EU-wide and worldwide.
A brokerage commission on concluded business, agreed in advance and normally carried by one named side. No deal, no fee. Our General Terms & Conditions set out the contracting terms.
There is no fixed minimum. In practice the floor is set by freight economics into your destination, not by a rule of ours. An isotank of roughly 20 to 25 tonnes works for a trial or a specialty grade, a single container for waste plastics, and full parcel tankers or barges for bulk. If a lot is genuinely too small to move economically we will say so rather than let you find out at the quoting stage.
No, and that is important. We are a broker: the sale contract and the payment run directly between buyer and seller. We never sit in the money flow. Terms are whatever the two sides agree, commonly a letter of credit or cash against documents on first business between new counterparties, moving to open terms as a relationship builds. Anyone in this trade who asks you to pay them as the intermediary is doing something a broker should not do.
Send us the analysis, the volume, where the material sits and whether it is certified. From there we tell you honestly which market you are in, what documentation you will need, and whether the economics work before you spend anything. Most first-time sellers lose money on the paperwork and the classification rather than on the price, and both are cheaper to get right beforehand.
It depends entirely on the product, which is why we have a page for each. Broadly: refiners, biodiesel and HVO producers and SAF producers for feedstocks; steam crackers and polymer producers for circular and bio-based feedstocks; carbon black producers and industrial fuel users for tyre-derived oil; mechanical recyclers and compounders for polymers; oleochemical, feed and chemical buyers for oils, fats and glycerine. Tell us what you have and we will tell you which of those is realistic.
For waste-based feedstock into the biofuel chain: a valid sustainability certificate with the right scope, a proof of sustainability per delivery, a current certificate of analysis and retained samples. For material classified as waste: the shipment documentation the Waste Shipment Regulation requires. For animal by-products: the category and the establishment approval number. Missing one of these is the most common reason a deal that was agreed does not happen.
Same working day in almost all cases. Desk hours are 08:00-18:00 CET Monday to Friday, in English or Dutch. You deal with Bart van den Brug directly, not a call centre. Call +31 6 115 83 448 or email [email protected].
Yes, and it is one of the things we are asked for most. Speed matters more than anything else once demurrage starts running. See off-spec and distressed cargoes.
Need to move product, find supply, or get a read on the market? Send a message or call. You deal with me directly, not a call centre.