A company in the environmental management area found a different way to reuse the grain residues, which pose a risk of contamination in Brazil’s largest port complex, the Port of Santos. Sugar, soy, corn, wheat, and rice tailings are now being used to produce eco-alcohol. AMBIPAR, which cleans and maintains Copersucar warehouses in the Port of Santos, found an innovative solution for this waste. After a year of research, scientists and technicians from the Research, Development, and Innovation Department (RD&I) developed eco-alcohol from sugar, soy, corn, wheat, and rice waste. “People and vacuum cleaners sweep up this waste. It is then dumped into buckets, which are subsequently taken weekly to a plant in the interior of São Paulo, where these residues ferment”, explains Gabriel Estevam Domingos, RD&I director at AMBIPAR. After this process, 46% or 70% alcohol is obtained and it is packaged for sale.
Sources: G1/Datamar News