Used cooking oil helps weed out fertiliser pollution

Fresh ripe red tomatoes and some tomatoes that are not ripe yet hanging on the vine of a tomato plant in the garden.

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Inverse vulcanisation used to turn waste canola oil into controlled-release fertiliser

Scientists from Australia and the UK have developed a new controlled-release fertiliser by embedding plant nutrients in a polymer made from sulfur and recycled canola oil.