{
  "id": 10986673,
  "title": "Used Cooking Oil Could Help Turn Old Asphalt Into New Roads, Studies Find",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/used-cooking-oil-could-help-turn-old-asphalt-into-new-roads-studies",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T16:05:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/used-cooking-oil-could-help-turn-old-asphalt-into-new-roads-studies-find"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Used cooking oil, usually treated as kitchen waste, could help increase the amount of recycled material used in road construction. Laboratory research has found that waste cooking oil can soften the hardened binder in old asphalt, making it possible to incorporate larger quantities of reclaimed pavement into new asphalt mixtures. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Traffic and Transportation…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}