Ok so we’re a family that seems to generate a lot of rubbish … there might only be two of us and we’re always careful about buying products that have the least amount of packaging and we recycle till our fingers bleed but somehow we just seem to produce a lot of rubbish.

I suppose that it has something to do with the fact that we work from home but whatever the reason the fact that we do produce a lot of trash has got me interested in ways of being environmentally friendly and recycling what may seem to be non-recyclable. So this post over on LifeGoggles got me interested.

It seems that Coskata Inc has developed a process that will allow it to produce what it calls ‘flex-ethanol’ and this fuel can be used in today’s cars and trucks. The source of the fuel is wood biomass, agricultural waste and even household garbage and old tires. The company says that basically anything that has carbon in it can be converted into ethanol so the amount of garbage a plant like this can chew up and recycle into some useful is enormous.

And the good news is that according to the company the cost of production is less than the cost of producing a gallon of gasoline. When you think that we can be recycling huge amounts of our non-recyclable garbage and turning it into fuel to burn in our cars and trucks there is certainly a chance that we can cure our waste landfill problems in a very dramatic way.

Perhaps there is a company that we could be investing some of our dollars in instead of wasting it on trying to get politicians to do something about the environment. It’s certainly worth considering … especially when the cost of a gallon of this fuel may cost less than a gallon of regular gas.