Let's applaud the Sofia Newspaper for this timely article.
I like the idea of Ethanol from Rubbish. So this will bring us even closer to a Zero Waste Strategy.
Is this project in the UK the project in South Milford Yorkshire?

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This is surely the best response sent to an article I have seen in recent time.
Sofia need this programme to turn trash in to ethanol.
Go for it

At long last we read that Bulgaria and Sofia will benefit from the development of renewable energy investments. It should however be apparent to All that what is classified as Renewable Energy should be widened in its fullest context to embrace All the Renewable Energy-Related Programmes and Projects including the Renewable Fuels.

Perhaps the Government and Municipality of Sofia and its Mayor mights consider then the issue of addressing the Municipal Waste that is generated here in Sofia by converting the residues to a transportation fuel Ethanol as was raised some time ago. All we see [...]

Read the full comment here is the same old platitudes written by the same old advisers about incineration and its euphemism of the name waste-to-energy or the so 0-called cleaner and less innocuous term of energy-from-waste being used. These advisors have written again that Sofia and Bulgaria should adopt this old and out-dated and environmentally questionable route regardless of how we (the residents) feel about the issue. Just look around the World at the animosity to these programmes and the anxiety it causes when it need not be so.

We have now a number of programmes and projects around the World (in Kentucky, Hawaii, the UK in Yorkshire and the Humber Region, in Viet Nan, in India, in Israel and in many other places where the issue has been confronted head on with the Municipal Authorities and Governments where they have opted for turning trash/garbage to Ethanol. Further more it is a system where you can make this Renewable Fuel credibly from Non-Food Crops. Isn't this what we have all said we needed to do over the past few years? It is not new it has been done for 190 years. It is not new it was effected between 1890 and 2006.

Why would they do this Environmentally? Simply put - it solves two environmental issues at once - it offers a solution to waste management and treatment in a system which is better than all other options (including land fill) both for the now and for the future as it turns a waste in to a fuel economically, and that fuel can be used in transport.

Why would they do this Economically? Simply put - it solves the greatest economic issue surrounding the management and treatment in the handling of waste in a system which betters all other options (including land fill) both for the now and for the future as it is affordable in the first public test - initial cost - and by converting the product to a fuel it converts what was once a liability and a cost burden in to one which generates an income from which the City of Sofia and Bulgaria can both benefit through reductions in local and national taxes and from reducing the quantity of importing fuels to the Country.

Why should we do it in Bulgaria and Sofia? The reason is more than plain, it is in the Country and the Public's interest. We the public will be the real beneficiaries.

So let's hear it again for Bulgaria and see real benefits in this drive for Renewable Energy also being directed to Renewable Fuels and in this instance to Turn our Waste in to Ethanol. There is already a company in England doing this and you should look at them doing it here.