Ethanol from Waste Plan in Florida

Los Angeles-based New Planet Energy is in negotiation for a site southwest of Vero Beach on which is plans to build an 8-million-gallon-a-year production plant by late 2010.

The firm hopes to buy the site by December and teh project is expected to cost $50 million, New Planet Energy's Craig Evans told TC Palm.

The company plans to pilot the commercial use of a bio-ethanol process developed by researchers in Arkansas.

Tiny organisms in heated containers convert carbon — in everything from tree wastes to tyres — into ethanol that could be blended with gasoline, he said. In contrast, conventional ethanol plants produce fuel by fermenting corn.

According to Mr Evans, the company should be able to produce ethanol for $1 a gallon.

TC Palm said that the raw materials could be county landfill wastes, as well as paper that cannot be recycled.

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