Brazil Opens Pioneering Factory Producing Eco-friendly Plastic

Manila Bulletin Publishing Company
September 26, 2010, 12:30am

TRIUNFO, Brazil (Xinhua) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says a pioneering factory in southern Brazil that produces "green" plastic clearly shows the value of sugarcane-based ethanol.

"It demonstrates to the world that ethanol can find an important place even in sectors that once depended solely on oil," the president said Friday during the opening of the factory.

"I am sure this does not happen by chance, but because Brazil has learned how to reconcile natural soil wealth and climate with heavy investment in research and technology," he said.

The factory has a capacity to produce 200,000 tons of "green" polyethylene a year and will consume about 462 million liters of ethanol per year.

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