Well, that’s the premise behind a new website from the North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance and the North Carolina State Energy Office. Called the NC BiomassTrader, it is an exchange for surplus and waste materials like vegetable oil, restaurant grease, wood waste, manure, food waste, forest products and byproducts as well as agricultural products and byproducts.
Companies or individuals who have these waste products can use the site to trade their materials that would normally end up in a landfill, flushed off into sewers, or just plain discarded.
Of course, the purpose is to provide a source of material for the manufacturing of biofuels. Could this lead to a national biomass commodities exchange?