cooking oil Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:04:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Waste Cooking Oil Provides Power, Runs Desalination Plant, Sewage System in London https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-cooking-oil-power-london-20130411/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-cooking-oil-power-london-20130411/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:04:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36109 A new initiative by Thames Water and 2OC, a utility company, aims to collect used cooking oil for powering the world’s biggest fat-fueled power station, major sewage works, a desalination plant and to supply UK’s National Grid. The waste cooking oil will be supplied by thousands of London restaurants. Considering that their annual spending on clearing drains from […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-cooking-oil-power-london-20130411/feed/ 0 36109 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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