date:May 18, 2022
of sugar, and the industry is one of the largest rural employers. However the industry generates significant industrial waste in the form of bagasse. This biomass is currently burnt to power the sugar factories, but this process is inefficient and does not use all of the available bagasse.
Professor Simon J McQueen Mason from the Department of Biology at the University of York said: To assess the economic potential of this process, the next step is to attract further investment to carry out pro