May 13, 2003: The Ultimate Trash To Treasure

OK, so it might be right up there with cold fusion and other technological flim-flams . . . but it might not.

In this Discover magazine article, scientists (and more importantly, businessmen) believe they can turn just about anything -- waste from poultry processing plants, manure, plastic bottles, old computers, garbage, you name it -- into fuel oil, and do it cheaply. Read the article and decide for yourself.

Update: The article discusses a full-scale plant in Carthage which was to be running by the end of April. A spokesman for the company now says "The Carthage plant will be fully operational later this spring, by end of June we hope."

-- Scott Haring

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