The cotton industry has seen a lot of bad press; depleting water supplies, poisoning water tables with pesticide – and producing tons and tons of cotton-bud leftovers that blight the landscape around processing plants. In rural NSW, Australia, one man has woven a profitable business out of cotton waste, using worms.
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here has been plenty of controversy about the production of biofuels from plant sources, and the impact it has on food production and the environment. And recently, the blockage of sewage systems by waste fats has also been in the news. One smart Finnish company is applying its technology to both problems and making biofuels from food processing waste.