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Reducing Greenhouse Gases

 

Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Biotechnology scientists are successfully producing fuels, chemicals, materials and other products in ways that greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Industrial Manufacturing

Biotech tools and technologies decrease the production of carbon dioxide in industrial manufacturing so much so that for every 16.5 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by traditional industrial processes, a biotech industrial process emits only one. Biodegradable non-pollutants fuel most biotech industrial processes. As a result, the byproducts of these processes are also generally biodegradable non-pollutants.

Biofuels

Plant-based biofuels, when used in place of fossil fuels greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The first generation of biofuels, such as corn ethanol, produce between 19 percent and 52 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline.