Powered By Olive Stones? Turning Waste Stones Into Fuel

**Olive stones** can be turned into **bioethanol**, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the **olive processing industry** an opportunity to make valuable use of 4 million tonnes of waste in olive stones it generates every year and sets a precedent for the **recycling of waste products** as fuels. Researchers from the Universities of Jaén and Granada in Spain show how this can be achieved in a study published in the latest edition of the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. “The low cost of transporting and transforming olives stones make them attractive for biofuels,” says researcher Sebastián Sánchez. "AlphaGalileo.Org":[ http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=533414]

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