Trash-to-ethanol plan begs questions

Post-Tribune

June 15, 2008
By Erik Potter Post-Tribune staff writer

Garbage-to-ethanol has been touted as the alternative to landfills, to foreign oil, the solution to global warming and the answer for municipalities fearful of going broke under new state caps on property taxes.

But can it deliver on those expectations? Does it offer answers to not just Lake County's, but the nation's, waste, fuel and global warming dilemmas?

The answers are mixed and to a large extent unanswered.

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