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A garbage-to-ethanol conversion facility is coming to Greater Reno-Tahoe, but whether the region’s own refuse or imported waste will be used remains to be seen.

Pleasanton, Calif.-based Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. will begin building the $120 million plant later this year in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center 17 miles east of Sparks using organic garbage otherwise destined for landfills.

If all goes according to plan, when operations begin in 2010 the plant will transform 90,000 tons of solid municipal waste into about 10.5 million gallons of ethanol annually. Read full story:

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