Truly Sustainable
Despite incredible gains in recycling programs and services in cities across the country, Americans still generate more than 1.3 million pounds of garbage per day – and nearly 500 million pounds* each year. Instead of burying it, producing advanced biofuels from a process like ours could turn that trash into a fuel that would displace 25 percent of the gasoline that’s made from imported oil.
Using waste as a feedstock is arguably the most sustainable method to produce fuel and electricity because the process doesn’t compete with land used for crops or water used for drinking. In fact, it actually reduces the amount of garbage disposed, reducing both the amount of land needed for burial as well as the significant emissions of methane gas – the most harmful of all the greenhouse gases.
Let’s face it -- there will never, ever be a shortage of garbage.
| * Source: | Environmental Protection Agency, Municipal Solid Waste in the U.S., 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration |