Prodigious amounts of glycerin are produced as a byproduct of biofuel, and sometimes was being landfilled. However, scientists now have devised a multitude of ways it can be used and reprocessed.
Waste glycerin can be made into a profit center, yielding high-value chemicals (alcohols and acids) that can be used to make fabrics, insulation, and food [...]
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Glycerin byproduct from biofuel refining now being reused
Gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds
Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms.
They use about a ton of coffee grounds every two weeks, which is composted by local farmers when they’re done with it.
Recycling tires to make new tires
Recycling 30 million old tires to create new ones
Magnum D’Or Resources is buying a landfill containing more than 30 million tires and using their special technology, will create new rubber and tires from them.
CleanTechnica has more
Bruce Foods using methane waste to power itself
Bruce Foods, a manufacturer of Tex-Mex food and hot sauces is converting a plant to run on recovered methane.
The Wilson plant, one of four owned by the Tex-Mex specialist, produces canned yams, potatoes and gravies, which results in huge mounds of food waste and consequently a prodigious output of methane. Previously, the plant simply vented [...]
Rubber sidewalks
CleanTechnica tells us why rubber sidewalks preserve trees and reduce water runoff. Plus they are made from recycled tires and cut carbon emissions too.
Fill ‘er up with beer sludge, please
The highly portable E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler takes beer yeast leftovers from a local brewery and turns it into ethanol.
Japanese sewage plant gets gold from sludge
The sewage plant is recovering 4.2 lbs. of gold (worth about $62,000) from each ton of fly ash they create when incinerating sludge. Being located in an area with lots of metal plating shops helps.
Serious recycling
Chicken fat into biodiesel
Hydrogen power plant fueled by garbage.
That’s a whole lot of blorp that won’t be clogging up landfills but will instead be turned into energy.
