1. The document describes two methods for recycling used domestic oil: making soap and creating oil lamps. 2. To make soap, one heats water and adds used oil along with caustic soda and sodium perborate while mixing. Natural perfumes can be added before letting the mixture set for a day and then cutting into bars of soap. 3. To create oil lamps, one fills a used light bulb with used oil, inserts a cloth wick, and lights it like a candle, producing an original decorative light.

1. A new way of seeing oil
Anselmo López Sánchez-Ortiz
María García Navarro
Pablo Antonio Franco Magdaleno
Recycling oil: making soap
Recycling oil: oil lamps
Is the most common way to transform
oil into another useful item, and it’s quite
Introduction This way is easier than making soap, and we
easy.
can also recycle other items during the process
The oil is a viscous and liquid Materials of creating oil lamps.
substance which has less density than
- 5l of used oil
water and it can’t be mixed with it. Materials
It can be made from olives, other
- 5l of water
types of seeds and fruits, animals - 1kg of caustic soda
- Used domestic oil
and even from minerals. There are two - 1kg of sodium perborate
- Any used recipient (in this case, used light
types of oil: - Natural perfume from any plant
bulbs)
-Fuel oil
- Piece of cloth as a wick
-Vegetable oil Steps:
We are going to develop the second Steps:
1. Heat the water.
group. Those ones come from the plant
2.When it boils, add the used oil.
and animal Kingdom. There are 1. Remove the materials inside the light bulb.
different types of animal oils, such
3. Mix the water and the oil, and little
as whale oil, that can be eaten, but by little we add the caustic soda and the
2. Fill the bulb with the used oil.
actually the most used in the daily sodium perborate, constantly moving.
life are the vegetable oils which 4. We can add different ecological
3. Wet the cloth into the oil.
come from seeds, fruits or roots. We substances.
use this type of oil for domestic 5. Move the mixture for 1 hour.
4. With a lighter, burn the cloth.
activities. 6. Let the mixture stand for 1 day.
7. Expand over a cardboard for drying
But used domestic oil is a very
it and after that cutting it in different
dangerous substance for the Oil lamps are a very original type of
pieces.
environment. With only 1l of used oil decoration, and it can be in many different
we can contaminate 1000l of water, so forms.
the best way to prevent this is After all this, we can use this soap as a
recycling oil. There are special normal one, but this won’t has been made
places to take the oil, and there it industrially.
will be processed and transformed
into useful oil again.
Recycling oil container
Another way of recycling is using it
to create other stuff, such as cream,
fertilizer, oil lamps, soap, etc.
We are going to show you how to make
two of them: soap and oil lamps.
These are two very simple ways to
recycle used domestic oil, so people
will see how easy the protection of
the environment is.
And you? Which other uses could yo give to the oil?