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Trash-to-fuel Project Comes to Lake County, Ind.

December 14, 2018

Via: Waste360

Fulcrum BioEnergy announced it is coming to Lake County, Ind., and investing more than $600 million to turn household waste into low-carbon jet fuel.

The plant is expected to be constructed by 2022 and aims to turn nearly 700,000 tons of landfill waste into renewable jet fuel every year. Construction for the plant is expected to begin in 2020, and once operational, the plant would process a “dry, clean feedstock” of paper, plastic and other waste products, according to NWI Times. After gasification, materials would be turned into a jet fuel that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 80 percent.

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