If they pollute, what should we do with it?
2007-10-16 22:23:03 · 4 answers · asked by pascuachín 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
I presume you mean vegetable oils, there are no vegetal oils. Please be more careful with your writing.
They do. They will degrade over time as will petroleum based oils. Neither degrade at any reasonable rate to be considered biodegradeable. (Even paper sacks, carrots, etc burried underground remain there for years.)
Vegetable oil, vegetable fats, just like animal fats have a glyceride structure, actually an ester bonding of a fatty acid to glycerine. Petroleum oils do not have the ester link.
Both can be recycled to some degree. The used oils can have a second life.
Vegetable and animal oils and fats can be broken down to glycerine and the fatty acid. There are markets for both products.
Petroleum oils can be purified and some of the purified product can be reused as an oil, some can be used as a boiler fuel.
The real issue is economics. Can we afford to recycle is the question. If it costs $10 to get $4 worth of product it is not a winning situation.
2007-10-16 23:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by GTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it floats on the appropriate no remember if it fairly is much and seal the floor of from air ,confident ,yet a sprint will peobably be eaten by using fish no remember if it fairly is organic and organic oil ,like sunflower or maize or coconut
2016-12-14 20:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing chuck it down the sink with some turps for good measure
2007-10-16 22:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by criminal convictions 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought no because it is derived from vegetables and would be biodegradable.
2007-10-16 22:32:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋