Green 'WASTE' Market is recession-proof

摘要

Starting about three years ago and pretty much up to early 2011, the discussion of what to do with wood waste revolved around "biofuel," the hip-sounding word for firewood and glorified fuel products such as pellets, boiler fuel, briquettes, biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol and other products. Even the federal government was getting hot for the idea, with the U.S. Information Administration agency of the Department of Energy for the first time releasing price and availability outlooks for pellet fuel and firewood last year. Our industry also seemed to be getting its arms around the new potential, with machines, systems and accessories such as sifting screens designed to reduce chips and sort them to specific, precise and uniform sizes as required for each specific biofuel market.