How it works
Know what a source record proves before making the call
OxyLens covers used cooking oil, Category 1/2 fat, Category 3 fat and crude glycerine in 36 markets across 16 countries, with dated public evidence and clear limits. Use it to find sellers, see what each record supports and prepare the questions for a real supplier conversation.
Find
Find potential routes in Source Finder
Find potential source routes by country and commodity. Read the operator, role, evidenced physical site and dated public proof.
Source Finder holds 621 reviewed sources. A source is one company's supply of one feedstock in one country. 181 of them state a sale on their own site; all of them are leads to qualify, not confirmed offers. The coverage table gives the count for each country and feedstock. Plants, collectors, traders and intermediaries are not interchangeable sources of material.
- Operator, site and source
- A company, facility and commercial source can differ. Separate labels prevent a buyer from assuming every listing is an independent supply option. A Map point appears only where location evidence is defensible; an unpinned source can remain in the research.
- Full and the free account
- Full access shows the available source research, public contact routes where supported and first-call questions. Counterparty dossiers link only where identity evidence supports the connection. Some sources have no dossier or Map point. The free account shows every market's sellers with town, role and evidence level, and opens 3 full records of your choice, contacts included; the other contacts, evidence links and the Map are in Full.
- Reading filters
- In the full workspace, narrow by country, commodity, evidence quality, freshness and your own source marks. A filter prioritizes reading; it does not establish that a remaining source can sell a lot today.
Qualify
Qualify the evidence and its limits
Official registrations and certificates can establish an operator, an activity or a certified scope. Company product statements can describe what it offers. Each source type answers a different question, and none establishes today's stock, a negotiated price or guaranteed lot quality. OxyLens shows selected public sources on the Poland sample pages so a visitor can check a claim directly.
Statements in the research distinguish what a source says, what the evidence suggests and what remains unconfirmed:
| Status | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Fact | Stated by a public source about this company or site | A company publishes a crude glycerine grade |
| Inference | Supported, but not established | A physical handler may have material, while merchant sale remains unproven |
| Unknown | Not established by public evidence | Current volume available to a new buyer |
Dates matter. Certificate status, contacts, site activity and product statements can change. An older source is presented as older, and a valid certificate is not described as a confirmed sale.
For the 527 sources whose ISCC, REDcert or KZR INiG certificate ID we hold, OxyLens rechecks the issuer's public list every week and shows the result on the source page with its date: still valid, renewed, ended without renewal, or suspended. The ISCC, REDcert and KZR INiG lists were last read on 2026-10-26. Where a source holds several certificates, the recheck follows the one that lapses first. A lapsed certificate is flagged.
Missing public proof leaves a question to confirm. It does not by itself mean a supplier has failed qualification.
Compare to a requirement
Compare possible routes to a Sourcing Brief
A Sourcing Brief captures the material and commercial need. Route Fit helps compare candidate routes against that brief while keeping unsupported fit and current availability open.
Saved Briefs let a user reopen a sourcing requirement against the current evidence. Route Fit shows what supports a possible route and what still needs asking; it does not rank suppliers or assign a match score.
If you name the market you sell into, the brief also shows how that market counts the material toward biofuel targets, with the official rule it comes from and the date it was read.
Prepare the call
Take the open questions into a first call
Call Sheets bring forward practical questions: whether the material is offered outside an existing group or contract, which grades and lots are possible, what analysis is available, and how product is loaded. The answer must come from the counterparty. Neither the public pages nor the private workspace promise current availability, a fit to one buyer's specification, or an unobserved trade.
Example Call Sheet questions
- Merchant routeIs the material sold outside the existing group or contract?
- Grade & lotWhich grade is offered, and what current lot analysis is available?
- LoadingWhere and how is the proposed lot loaded?
A mapped source is a lead to qualify. Public evidence cannot establish today's stock, negotiated price, actual lot quality or the counterparty's willingness to sell.
Record private answers
Keep your sourcing decisions and supplier answers private
In a Full workspace, you can mark a source KNOW, WORK WITH or CALL and record supplier answers and evidence from your own conversations. These notes stay private to your workspace and never become public source facts. Create a passwordless free account to see every market's sellers; choose Full access for the broader workspace, or contact us for help.
Understand where coverage is strongest
The three Poland public examples have dedicated physical-source research, but their records have different gaps. Registered rendering plants give category 3 fat a strong structural base while some raw-fat sellers may be absent. Glycerine coverage is strongest around evidenced physical production; less visible handlers may be missing. Evidenced UCO sources are the clearest tier, while uncertified collectors remain a material blind spot.
The other live country markets vary in depth and cannot be read as complete merchant databases. 1 of the 36 markets shipped with 4 sources under our thin-market rule, one below the usual minimum, and carry a thin label. The free fatty acids and monopropylene glycol guides are broader research context, not live Source Finder markets.
See the public evidence in a Poland market
Start with the free account
See who sells in every market, with town, role and evidence level, before you pay. Full access is €120 a month or €1,200 a year, excl. VAT.
Every market's seller list, plus 3 full records of your choice with contacts. Sign in with an email link. No card, no password.
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