Jun 21, 2014

Video: World's first industrial-scale waste-to-biofuels facility

Gizmag pays a visit to the city of Edmonton's new Waste-to-Biofuels and Chemicals Facility...
Thanks to its extensive composting and recycling facilities, the city of Edmonton, Canada is already diverting approximately 60 percent of its municipal waste from the landfill. That figure is expected to rise to 90 percent, however, once the city's new Waste-to-Biofuels and Chemicals Facility starts converting garbage (that can't be composted or recycled) into methanol and ethanol. It's the world's first such plant to operate on an industrial scale, and we recently got a guided tour of the place.

// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine