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Banned Four Loko Drink Turned Into Ethanol Fuel

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 0:32

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Every can of the now banned Four Loko makes about 2.8 ounces of ethanol alcohol. That means that every four cases could produce a little more than a gallon of ethanol alcohol.

Wholesalers across the East Coast are currently shipping their unsold inventories of Four Loko to MXI Environmental Services, a Virgina-based waste disposal and recycling company. MXI is one of three such facilities in the U.S. that recycles ethanol, which is what they intend to do with the banned beverages.

“We’re equipped to process four truckloads a day, ” says MXI Vice President of Operations Brian Potters during an interview with the Associated Press. That’s 8,000 23.5-ounce cans a day, which may have been otherwise sent to landfills or incinerated.

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