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Cielo Waste Solutions Corp

What does it do, how does it work, who is it aimed at?

A proven and patent-pending technology in conjunction with a related party, which will produce a high cetane, ultralow sulfur renewable diesel, kerosene and naphtha fuels. Feedstock for the refinery is the world’s most available and inexpensive feedstock of household, commercial and construction/demolition garbage, including feedstocks of Municipal Solid Waste and cellulosic materials such as wet organics (compost), all plastics, paper, tires, cardboard, sawdust and wood.

Cielo has an exclusive global license from a related party for a game-changing refining process (“the technology”) that can convert multiple different waste streams into renewable diesel at a considerably lower cost than biodiesel companies.  Almost every developed country in the world has a mandate to blend renewable fuels, and Cielo will be selling into this growing market.  The global applications of Cielo’s technology are enormous. The company takes landfill waste (the fibrous portion) and converts it into a renewable diesel. 

Competitively, what gives this technology an edge?

Current biodiesel uses agricultural crops to create a biodiesel.  unfortunately there are many set backs such as, cost of feed stock makes it uneconomical to produce without government subsidies.  In addition, there is the food vs. fuel debate. Cielo uses land fill waste as its source of feedstock.  Garbage (plastics, rubbers, papers, MSW) is a growing problem globally and Cielo has a solution.at verge of commerciality

What stage of development is this technology at right now?

Cielo is in the commissioning phase of its first commercial refinery.

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