BIOTECH START-UP TO MAKE INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS FROM WASTE

摘要

A GROUP OF entrepreneurs is planning to revive a near-forgotten piece of First World War biotechnology and use it to produce industrial chemicals from domestic and commercial waste on England's Teesside. The company, called Solvert, will use biological fermentation processes developed in 1916 to produce renewable n-butanol, acetone, hydrogen and electricity from wet biodegradable waste, which other new industries such as waste-to-energy plants cannot use effectively.