The search for an opportunity to recover materials from waste
Waste is a big problem and the problem is getting bigger. Each year, Europe produces 242m tonnes of waste, 55% of which goes to landfill. Current solutions for dealing with municipal solid waste include landfill and incineration. These practices have detrimental effects on our environment, cost an increasing amount of money and are quickly becoming one of the world’s biggest problems.
Instead of burying the problem or turning it into carbon dioxide, there could be solutions to turn waste into everyday consumer products. Only the use of new technologies will allow us to bridge the gap between economic growth and environmental sustainability in the long run and bio refineries could be today’s solution for bringing waste back into the production stream and help mitigate the threat of climate change and the seemingly boundless demand for energy, fuels, chemicals and materials.
The ability to use waste in biorefineries will be essential to the adoption of second generation biofuels. The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is working towards making this concept a reality, CPI look to develop biorefining as a part of a profitable future and can provide open access facilities that can be used to prove bioprocesses on a pilot and demonstration scale, helping companies to build a business case for investment into production facilities of their own.
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