Argentine company invests $5M to produce biodiesel from sewage waste

In Argentina, the Nacion newspaper reports Explora, which has its plant in Puerto General San Martín, Santa Fe, invested more than $5 million in a new technology to transform sewage waste into biodiesel.

It has already produced 12,000 metric tons of deacidified residual oil that was exported to Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria and Brazil. This is used as an advanced biofuel, as an input for specialty chemical applications and as a feedstock for the production of second-generation biodiesel.