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Italy to require advanced biofuels in all vehicles

OCT 15, 2014
Physics Today

BBC : A ministerial report has revealed that Italy will soon require a portion of all gasoline and diesel to contain advanced biofuels, which are made from waste material. Using advanced biofuels instead of traditional biofuels will reduce the amount of farmland being devoted to growing nonfood crops. Italy will require 0.6% of all fuel to be advanced biofuels by 2018, with an increase to 1% by 2022. That will make Italy the first European nation to have such a requirement. The European Union had attempted to set a similar goal for all member countries, but the final version was nonbinding. Last year the world’s first plant that makes biofuel from straw opened near Turin, Italy, and there are plans to open three more similar plants in the southern part of the country.

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