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Municipal and wood waste could be transformed into transport bio-fuel with enhancements to a process that chemically decomposes substances by heating.rnThe process - known as pyrol-ysis - is being developed for mass-scale biofuel production by a consortium of British businesses led by Axion Energy.rnThe Carbon Trust, which has invested ￡7m into the effort, claims a process that uses existing organic waste, rather than plant crops, overcomes many of the sustain-ability issues associated with some current biofuels.rnThis also has significant potential to reduce emissions because the waste would otherwise go to landfill, where it would rot and produce methane.