New York's New plant to produce ethanol from paper sludge, wood chips, other agricultural waste

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The state of New York will soon build an ethanol production plant near Rochester that will use paper sludge, wood chips and other agricultural waste as its raw material. Mascoma's 15,000-square-foot, $14.8 million facility is scheduled to open toward the end of 2007 or early 2008.

Agricultural waste

When the facility will be fully operational, it will be churning out about 500,000 gallons of biomass ethanol per year, according to Mascoma President Colin South. Such increase in biomass ethanol will surely one day help reduce the 150 billion gallons of petroleum, Americans consume every year! Though the US dwellers consume around 6 billion gallons of ethanol annually, such biomass ethanol plants are needed to help the country work on combating greenhouse gas emissions.

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