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Masaki Takao Imabari - Japan

I make bioethanol from your old clothes

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Sugar cane, sugar beets, wheat, and corn are a just few of the many plants that are already used to produce bioethanol. Why not cotton? Our Japanese pioneer had the ingenious idea to recycle the masses of old cotton clothes we don’t know what to do with.

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