It's not waste anymore..

A chilly Chicago played host to the Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuels Summit this week, and the meeting attracted a diverse group of ambitious developers and would-be developers of waste-to-energy/biofuel projects. In the United States the waste-to-energy segment of the green sector remains largely at the demonstration phase. “We’re about a decade away from being project finance ready,” one attendee told G.E.R.

Although waste to biofuels is not ready for prime time, unlike alchemy, the technology has its roots in actual science. It also has enormous potential. The United States alone produces over 150 million tons of garbage every year, and solid waste can be a real headache for many municipalities. However, if cities could turn their waste into energy, they could turn garbage into a revenue stream. The goal is to turn refuse into a valuable feedstock that a waste-to-energy company could turn into cellulosic biofuels, electricity, or possibly even clean jet fuel.

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