A little oil left over from frying your breakfast eggs can easily be sopped up with paper towels or an upcycled cotton rag. But some recipes—hello, doughnuts!—leave larger quantities of oil behind. As ...

You’ve just fried up a batch of something delicious. The kitchen smells amazing, your stomach is happy, and everything seems ...

Scientists have developed a way to turn cooking oil waste discarded by restaurants into recyclable plastic and a superglue strong enough to tow a car. The new method could be a sustainable way to ...

British households pour millions of litres of cooking oil down the sink each year, with around half of us admitting to having done so. But doing so causes immediate problems, with coagulated cooking ...

Scientists have converted waste cooking oil into various recyclable plastics with exceptional strength — and some were even durable enough to tow a car. Turning nonedible waste into useful polymers is ...

WOOSTER, Ohio — Buehler Food Markets here recently converted one of four tractor trailers — which are used to pick up and deliver local produce — from diesel to waste vegetable oil (WVO), which ...

The idea of jetliners running solely on fuel made from used cooking oil from restaurants or cornstalks might seem futuristic, but it’s not that far away. Several airlines are already experimenting ...