Biodiesel: The afterlife of oil - Natascia Radice
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How could you dispose of
your cooking oil when you’re done cooking? The easiest thing to do might
be to pour it down your drain -- but if you save it up and send it to a
processing plant, it can gain useful new life as biodiesel, a
biodegradable energy source which can run in diesel engines instead of
refined petroleum. Natascia Radice describes the process of turning goop
into good.
Additional Resources for you to Explore
Glycerol is the leftover product of the Biodiesel processing, Learn here how it can be used to produce ecofriendly biodiesel soap.
Learn here about a pilot initiative to crowdsource used vegetable oil recycling by using the schools in each city as a drop-off center. Learn more here.
Learn how to make biodiesel in this MAKE tutorial. However, this is a project that involves toxic and inflammable chemicals and should only be carried out in the presence and supervision of adults.
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