A polymer made from waste cooking oil and sulphur can clean up crude oil spills

For those who were annoyed by the inconsistent units in the story:<p>&quot;International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation reporting about 7000 tonnes of crude oil spilling from tankers into oceans in 2017 alone.&quot;<p>&quot;.. explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on 20 April 2010 and subsequent release of approximately 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.&quot;<p>According to this site (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reference.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;much-barrel-oil-weigh-b29eeb18d34510ef" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reference.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;much-barrel-oil-weigh-b29e...</a>) &quot;In order to get a metric tonne of oil, one would need about 7.33 barrels of oil.&quot;<p>7000 tonnes ~ 51,310 barrels<p>4.9 million barrels ~ 668,485 tonnes

I see a surprising amount of awesome work coming out of the pokey town of Adelaide.

Hopefully the Chinese gutter-oil industry[1] will start selling to this purpose, instead of as cooking oil!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gutter_oil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gutter_oil</a> - while recycling oil from deep fryers might not sound awful, some gutter oil is literally taken from the gutter - sewage is being recycled and sold as cooking oil in parts of China!

Spoiler Alert: The article takes too much space to say almost nothing.<p><i>sigh</i> Science journalists.