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tractor slowly shovels its way through the mountains of this month's gossip columns in the grey hall of the Vestermarie recycling station. Further along the line, the hands of two Bornholm men take over the work. With practised hands, they remove the glossy magazines before the piles of paper and cardboard disappear into streamlined bins. The result towers up outside, like columns in a giant game of Tetris with nature: sorted waste is Bornholm's new gold. This new bioethanol demonstration plant in the village of Aakirkeby on the Danish island of Bornholm has been established by the Danish company Biogasol. The plant, BornBiofuel, represents the next step along the road to a full-scale commercial bioethanol plant, which is expected to cost just under EUR 36 million. In the future, people will be able to deliver their waste here, and in return receive eco-friendly petrol, green energy and cold cash. The BornBiofuel project, which is co-funded by EUDP (the Danish Energy Authority's Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme), aims to make 'the bright green island' even greener in future. the petRol of the futuRe "BornBiofuel will be a new cornerstone in the international branding of Bornholm," says Thor Gunnar Kofoed, managing director of the company. The vision is to create a sustainable cycle, in which farmers, companies and citizens will deliver grass, garden refuse, paper and wood to the plant. The biomass will then be transformed into energy, primarily in the form of bioethanol, which can be used as fuel for vehicles. But the plant will also create electricity, heat and wooden pellets, which will be returned to the Bornholmers. As BornBiofuel is a so-called second-generation plant, which uses biomass from plants rather than food, the process produces no waste. Today, wood, paper and cardboard is transported from Bornholm to Grenå (on the Danish mainland) and Sweden to be recycled. But now, all that must end. The new plant will be much more CO2-friendly, as the involved processing, transport and incineration can now be dropped. However, the posters with their colourful arrows illustrating the eco-friendly cycles of the future still only hang on the walls of the empty halls of the BornBiofuel plant. All of the processes must be scientifically tested before the new plant can open and the results obtained in the laboratory will have to be scaled up 40,000 times. "It is a lot of work, because we want to be 100 percent
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"BornBiofuel will be a new cornerstone in the international branding of Bornholm,"
Thor Gunnar Kofoed, managing director, BornBiofuel
Sorted waste from citizens on Bornholm helps to fuel the island's new bioethanol plant. Bornholm Growth Forum has secured funding for a project to study how best to motivate people to contribute.
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