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CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. has announced that the equipment purchased from the University of California at Berkeley is now in place and operational. Testing of cellulosic feedstocks has begun.
Waste Business Journal reports that it is estimated that Americans produce 4.4 pounds of waste per day, or 229 million tons of trash annually nationwide. This waste represents a virtually endless source of cellulosic feedstock for the production of biofuels that potentially will be available to CleanTech at almost no cost, and in some locations at a profit.
The waste disposal crisis in this Country, coupled with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which dictates that production of ethanol in the United States reach 36 billion gallons per year by the year 2022, of which 20 billion gallons per year is required to be produced from feedstock sources other than corn, positions CleanTech Biofuels to be a leader in the cellulosic ethanol industry.
CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. is a development stage company that is developing cutting edge waste to clean fuel technologies. It has licensed and are developing patented technologies which, when combined, can be used to convert the cellulosic material in municipal solid waste, green waste, and other cellulosic waste materials into fermentable sugars for the production of ethanol.
Municipal biorefineries have the potential to:
§ Reduce the costs of transporting waste long distances for disposal.
§ Dramatically reduce pollution released into the environment by the disposal of municipal solid waste.
§ Reduce the amount of material going into landfills by as much as eighty five percent.
§ Increase the amount of recyclable materials that can be recovered from municipal solid waste.
§ Generate biofuels and other usable energy products at competitive prices.
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