cooking oil recycling Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 25 May 2015 06:42:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Recycling Waste Products into Valuable Materials – Part 1 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycling-waste-products-materials/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycling-waste-products-materials/#respond Mon, 25 May 2015 06:42:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54959 Pondering about what to do with all that old motor oil you can accumulated in your garage? How about dealing with the mounting pile of expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes? This article has the information you need. Tyre (tire) Recycling. With the billions of vehicles used worldwide come the issue with used tyres (amongst the other […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycling-waste-products-materials/feed/ 0 54959 How to Make Your Own Biodiesel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-make-biodiesel/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-make-biodiesel/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:10:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51610 Regardless of what people say, biodiesel is definitely a much better alternative to any fossil fuel. Not only that it is much more environmentally friendly, but it is also possible to make high quality biodiesel in your own kitchen or garage, saving you money on both petrol and on car repairs. Here is how. The […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-make-biodiesel/feed/ 1 51610 Biodegradable Plastics Made From Waste Cooking Oil With Aid from Bacteria https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biodegradable-plastics-made-from-waste-cooking-oil-with-aid-from-bacteria-20120904/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biodegradable-plastics-made-from-waste-cooking-oil-with-aid-from-bacteria-20120904/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:53:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25905 Waste cooking oil could be used to make better bioplastics, according to researchers participating at the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn Conference at the University of Warwick. A team at the University of Wolverhampton have used such bacteria called Ralstonia eutropha H16 to produce bioplastics. They noticed that the bacteria grew better in oil and produced […]

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