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Study examines how waste can be used for bioenergy, potentially on national scale

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A UCLA study found that harnessing the nation’s waste could potentially produce large amounts of energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions. One of the study’s key conclusions was that employing all available wastes in the contiguous United States to create bioenergy could possibly generate 3.1 to 3.8 exajoules of renewable energy.

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Study examines how waste can be used for bioenergy, potentially on national scale

By Sameera Pant

Sept. 20, 2019 1:11 a.m.