(つかう)

to use

(あぶら)

oil, fuel

(ひこうき)

airplane

(ねんりょう)

fuel

(れすとらん)

restaurant

(かてい)

household; home; family

(おわる)

to end

(かえる)

to change

(とりくみ)

efforts, initiatives

(にほん)

Japan

(ひろがる)

to spread

(あたらしい)

new

(せきゆ)

oil, petroleum

(にさんかたんそ)

carbon dioxide

(へらす)

to reduce; to decrease

(ある)

a certain (some)

(かいしゃ)

company

(ぜんこく)

nationwide; the whole country

(すーぱー)

supermarket

(あつめる)

to collect

(はこ)

box

(おく)

to place, put

(こうじょう)

factory

(はこぶ)

to carry; to transport

(つくりかえる)

to remake, to convert into

(きょねん)

last year

(あつまる)

to gather; to come together

(りょう)

Quantity; amount; volume

(ふえる)

to increase; to grow

(しかし)

however, but

(ひつよう)

necessary / needed

(くらべる)

to compare

(まだ)

still; yet

(すくない)

few, scarce

(きょうりょく)

cooperation

(じゅうぶん)

enough; sufficient

(つくる)

to make

(はなす)

to speak, talk

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

because ~ / since ~

Causal connector. Because JA is buying at higher prices, store prices will also rise.

can do ..., to be able to ...

Verb dictionary form + ことができる expresses ability or possibility. More formal than the potential verb form. Common in written Japanese and announcements.

passive voice: was/were ~ed

Passive form indicating that the subject receives the action. '食べられて' means 'were eaten'. Central grammar of this article about tulips being eaten by deer.

than / more than

Indicates comparison. Used to say prices rose on average 2.8% compared to last year.

I hear that ~, they say that ~

Attached to a plain form to report information heard from another source. The article uses it because the increase in collected oil is reported second-hand rather than observed directly.

if / when (natural consequence)

Conditional と indicating a natural or expected result. 一緒に捨てると…火が出て means 'if you throw them away together, fire starts.'

使った油を飛行機の燃料にする

Turning used cooking oil into jet fuel

レストランや家庭で使い終わった油を、飛行機の燃料に変える取り組みが日本で広がっています。

Efforts to turn oil that restaurants and households have finished using into fuel for airplanes are spreading in Japan.

この燃料は新しい石油を使わないので、二酸化炭素を減らすことができます。

Because this fuel does not use newly produced petroleum, it can reduce carbon dioxide.

ある会社は、全国のスーパーに油を集める箱を置きました。

One company has placed boxes for collecting oil at supermarkets across the country.

集めた油は工場へ運ばれ、そこで燃料に作り変えられます。

The collected oil is carried to a factory, where it is remade into fuel.

去年より集まる量が増えたそうです。

They say the amount being collected has increased compared with last year.

しかし、必要な量に比べると、集まる油はまだ少ないです。

However, compared with the amount that is needed, the oil being collected is still small.

会社は「家庭の協力がないと、燃料を十分に作ることはできない」と話しています。

The company says, "Without cooperation from households, we cannot make enough fuel."