Developed by UC Santa Cruz chemists, the low-cost process turns used vegetable oil into biodiesel at a temperature lower than ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and ...

Businesses and property owners face mounting challenges in waste management, from costly used cooking oil theft to unexpected septic tank overflows. According to the North American Renderers ...

A detailed roadmap for how to fulfill the US pledge to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 (30x30) has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining.  Current ...

"You're essentially drawing oil up, turning it into plastic ... California does not track data on how much of this ...

Since 2018, the fossil-fuel and plastics industries have faced two harsh realities: Oil is being phased out in favor of clean, renewable energy, and plastic waste can no longer be exported to ...

Climate Action 15 profiles top founders, global activists, academics, and nonprofit and public-sector leaders tackling climate solutions.

“We used to charge fees to dispose of used cooking oil as industrial waste,” said one Tokyo-based recycling agent. “The oil has since surged in price, so now we must pay to collect i ...

Mr Ezzani and his team discovered traces of toxic oil waste commonly used in "marine engine compressors". Fire and rescue officials also identified at least 15 different types of chemicals - which ...

More than 100,000 tons of cooking oil waste is said to be exported from Japan each year. For this reason, there are growing calls to set up a supply chain to produce domestically made SAF. Related ...

Meanwhile, Negeri Sembilan Solid Waste Management and ... 13,819 kg of used cooking oil has been collected. "At the initial ...

So should we burn our hard-to-recycle waste, or bury it? Here's the case for burning. Plastic is made from oil and gas, and it creates a lot of heat when it's burned. So at first sight it makes ...