Africa is discarding renewable feedstocks that global markets urgently need, even as the African circular economy begins to gain momentum. Europe continues to increase imports of waste-based inputs like used cooking oil to meet renewable fuel mandates, while millions of tons of African waste remain uncollected and unmonetized. Nigeria alone generates huge volumes of used cooking oil and organic waste each year, most of which never enters a formal supply chain. This gap between local surplus and global demand has created a clear arbitrage and one of Africa’s most overlooked industrial opportunities. Global demand underscores the scale of this opportunity.

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