Etihad teams with Tadweer on aviation biofuels from MSW

In the UAE, Gulf News reports that Etihad Airways has signed an MOU with Tadweer, the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center, to develop aviation biofuels from municipal solid waste with the end goal of the airline using the fuel for commercial flights. Under the agreement, the two companies will together develop the feasibility for such an R&D undertaking to determine a pathway for collaboration. Etihad has already funded extensive research by Masdar to develop aviation biofuels from salt-tolerant plants that is now scaling up into demonstration mode.