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Montana poplar tree project takes aim at waste, power – Bioroot Energy

"We need to start saying, ‘Let’s start looking at our waste as an unused resource. Let’s see how we can make our waste into energy,’ " says Heath Carey.

Heath Carey planted some 300 poplar trees last year on a couple of acres at Missoula’s wastewater treatment plant.

Carey, a University of Montana graduate student in resource conservation, said he poured just about everything he had into the impoverished soil besides tears, and maybe some of those, too.

"I ran a stake through my face when I was planting trees," Carey said.

The trees drink a small gulp of the effluent flowing from the treatment plant into the Clark Fork River. Carey, from Pennsylvania, designed, built and maintains the pilot poplar project because he wants to help create permanent solutions to waste and wastewater.

By KEILA SZPALLER of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_7c77947c-3af3-11df-8c04-001cc4c002e0.html

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-day series about Bioroot Energy’s http://www.biorootenergy.com/ plan to turn waste into energy.

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