In fact, vegetable oil is used widely around the world, and cooking and food preservation generate an enormous amount of waste oil. Around 4 million metric tons of used vegetable oil are produced ...

Household waste, including used cooking oil, is a big piece of that puzzle. So I was naturally intrigued when I heard about so-called cooking-oil solidifiers, a product touted as a solution to the ...

As part of its carbon-conscious philosophy, Uranus Oil has begun transitioning its collection fleet to Electric Vehicles ...

You can mix used cooking oil with waste materials like sand, flour, sawdust, or pet litter, which can soak it up and turn it into solid waste. This can make it easier for you to store and dispose ...

Converting biomass such as waste cooking oil into useful chemicals through catalysis can help create a more sustainable chemical industry. However, conventional techniques require enormous energy ...

And waste cooking oil can be used as a raw material for making aviation jet fuel, an attractive commodity for an industry that has fallen under scrutiny for emitting large volumes of carbon dioxide.

Manufactured from "waste cooking oil" and "waste vegetable material", the fuel certainly "will do the job – albeit at a current cost of around four times that of normal jet fuel".

No-waste cooking is just another way of maximizing the pleasures of your food, of making the most out of the least. It’s not a trend — it’s what cooking is, most of the time, without ...