 Today an official working on a special project in Edmonton, Alberta has told the media about their plans to make ethanol fuel with garbage. They have plans to turn 100,000 tons of plastic, cardboard and paper into the fuel starting in 2010.
The $69.3-million plant will produce 36 million liters of ethanol per year, making it the world's first industrial scale ethanol plant using waste as a feedstock, said Don Pierce of Greenfield Ethanol.
Having waste be the world's next source for ethanol production is an awesome prospect. Not only would we be more apt to recycle but we would also be alleviating the enormous demand for gasoline and/or typical feed crops.
It is ashame it has taken three decades for them to get to this point, but what do we say, better late than never, eh?Labels: canada, ethanol, garbage |
