{"id":327078,"date":"2010-02-16T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:33:13","slug":"british-airways-agrees-to-back-waste-to-biofuel-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327078","title":{"rendered":"British Airways agrees to back waste-to-biofuel plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8515620.stm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/47300000\/jpg\/_47300361_008667829-1.jpg\" width=\"267\" align=\"right\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/02\/16\/5\/\" >Climatewire<\/a>: British Airways PLC has reached an agreement to become the exclusive buyer for a proposed plant that could eventually produce 16 million gallons of jet fuel per year from landfill waste.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, being developed in London by Washington, D.C.-based Solena Group Inc., would be the first plant in Europe to turn waste into jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Requiring about 500,000 tons of waste per year, the plant could reduce the amount of garbage sent to landfills while providing enough fuel for about 2 percent of flights originating at London Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The biofuel that would be produced by the plant is not yet certified for use in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_the_United_Kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/a>, but British Airways says it believes it could secure that certification by 2014, when the plant is expected to begin producing fuel (Richard Scott, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8515620.stm\" >BBC News<\/a>, Feb. 15). <strong>&#8211; GN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3125&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3125\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climatewire: British Airways PLC has reached an agreement to become the exclusive buyer for a proposed plant that could eventually produce 16 million gallons of jet fuel per year from landfill waste. The facility, being developed in London by Washington, D.C.-based Solena Group Inc., would be the first plant in Europe to turn waste into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}