Glycerin Goes from Soapy Bauble to Biofuel Hero

Like some 21st-century version of The Blob , a thick, gooey tide of glycerin is overwhelming world markets.  A large part of the glycerin glut comes from biofuel refineries, which put out enormous quantities of crude glycerin as a byproduct.  Though high grade glycerin is used to make products like soaps , cosmetics, foods and pharmaceuticals, vast quantities of crude glycerin are simply disposed as waste, sometimes illegally . Somewhat ironically, glycerin may be riding to its own rescue and helping out the biofuel industry at the same time.  A growing number of companies are scrambling to find uses for the abundant stuff.  One is Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc.

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Glycerin Goes from Soapy Bauble to Biofuel Hero