May 21 2008
Idea: How To Use Old Cooking Oil
Today’s feature is from Global Recycled Products with this tip for How To Recycle Your Cooking Oil That Is No Longer Fit For Food:
Turn it into light!
Rather, make it fuel to give you light. You can use it when you get power outage or if you just want to save some money. It’s surely environmental safe and it does not make your nose blackish, unlike candles.
Using a large jar or tin can, a strip of cotton cloth, empty bottle and used oil you can make yourself a cheap (basically free!) oil lamp. Please visit the site for all the details, good stuff!
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21 May 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks very much for featuring my tip. I just saw this today. You have a wonderful set of tips that surely complement my thinking.
21 May 2008 at 5:51 pm
If you don’t want to use a flaming lamp in your home, you can contact a company that recycles old oil. I only know of one, but there must be others. Griffin Industries, I believe, has plants in the South, East, and Midwest.
22 May 2008 at 6:32 am
i know a family who heats there house with used oil,they also have a bus they run with it.i don’t know how and would not recommend dumping it in a gas tank.
22 May 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks for this tip. I have almost an entire bottle of vegetable oil that I cannot use. I didn’t realize it contained soy oil, which I am allergic to. Now I have a good use for it, and can conserve electricity, too. That’s great!
25 May 2008 at 11:32 am
I noticed in the Sunday flyers that Pier One has outside oil lamp stakes on sale..I think I will try this with used oil. If there is a smell, it will be outside