Are commercial biofuels created from zero-cost waste feedstock a pipe dream? That answer was nudged a little farther towards “no” after trash-to-biofuel firm Enerkem filed its Form F-1 with the SEC in preparation for a $125 million IPO.
The company's riding a wave of biofuel offerings that just doesn't seem to be slowing down. The Canadian company was founded in 2000, and has developed a “proprietary thermochemical technology” platform to process municipal solid waste (MSW) – otherwise known as plain-old trash – into syngas.
