Today on the occasion of Christmas festival , when people are sharing their blessings and best wishes with their loved one by giving Christmas cards, the scientist are going through their research of making enough bio-fuel by large amount of discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards.
However, according to a report, there are around 1.5 billion cards and 83 square kilometers of wrapping paper has been thrown away by UK residents over the Christmas period. They currently go to landfill or are recycled in local schemes.
And, at Imperial College London, the scientist has found a new study that if all of UK’s discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough bio-fuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times.
According to the researchers estimation, this amount of discarded waste paper could help to produce provide 5-12 million liters of biofuel that could easily turn into transportation fuel like diesel and petrol and helping in reduction of the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. Read more
