Go Green This Thanksgiving: Turn Turkey Guts Into Oil

A Missouri plant successfully turns practically anything into black gold. But profitability is another matter.

By Peter Fairley
Nov 25, 2008 6:00 AMJun 28, 2023 3:10 PM

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If biofuels are to free us from rising prices at the pump and rising sea levelsthey must be produced from agricultural and urban wastes rather than corn, soy, and other food crops. But the executives of Big Oil can rest easy for now: Even the most mature biomass-to-biofuels processor—the Hempstead, New York–based Changing World Technologies—is still struggling after five years of operation at large scale.

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