Mexican students create bioethanol with newspaper

Mexican students from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM) Coyoacan Campus have created bioethanol using newspaper, according to media reports.

The group of students, based in Mexico City, are called Alexys Stephanya Nájera, Ariel de Jesús González, Roberto Carlos Muñoz and Delia Calderón Crespo, according to news website mexiconewsnetwork.com.

The students had used an “acid digestion” process on the newspaper, the website stated. The product is then fermented and distilled to be turned into bioethanol.

The creation of bioethanol with wastes that no longer have commercial value and can be reused, (like in the case of newspaper), will support the goals of Mexico’s National Development Plan, which stipulates that Mexico should reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by 2024.

The creators of the project say it is still in development and they need more financial support in order to build a plant to produce the bioethanol at “industrial level”.

The bioethanol can also be used in vehicles, according to the website.