Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn waste cooking oil into a useful plastic material, and they succeeded.

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 ...

Ascend Performance Materials has begun production of nylon 6/6 resins and related feedstocks derived from used cooking oil. The resulting nylon 6/6 has a 25 percent lower carbon footprint than nylon 6 ...