As our societies continue to urbanize, the issue of landfill and municipal waste will continue to be exacerbated.  There is currently an industry in the shipping of waste from one locale to another – generally, poorer areas receiving waste from more developed areas.  Landfills from South Florida to Buenos Aires are reaching their limits. This phenomenon contributes to a cycle of increasing pollution, the contamination of water supply, and the continued degradation of our natural environment.

Imagine a new industry based on the conversion of municipal waste to clean renewable energy.  As research into these technologies accelerates and investment pools and financing become more readily available, we can create economies of scale sufficient to support these types of threshold technologies.

Currently, a pilot project supported by the State of Florida is converting municipal waste to ethanol in Tallahassee.  This is another case in point for the need to educate and promote ethanol not as a particular feedstock or technology, but as a clean alternative to imported oil that can be produced from an almost endless supply of bio-mass, waste, and renewable feedstock.

Click here to read how Green Power Systems LLC , a Florida company, employs a simple and efficient conversion process to produce cellulosic ethanol from waste.