JGC contributes to the promotion of industrial ethanol production using plant industry waste. Plant waste emission in Japan reaches approximately 5,000 tons annually including the fibrous waste in urban garbage, and it has become an issue to develop a recycling technology for such waste to alleviate the global environmental problem. Also, due to governmental enforcement of regulations with respect to the production of dioxins as well as the shortage of landfill space it has become a pressing issue to develop the technology to utilize general waste, such as urban garbage, construction waste, and industrial waste emitted from factories, effectively. Recycling such waste as a useful substance, such as industrial ethanol, instead of processing and disposing of the waste, leads to the building of a recycling-orientated society. Biomass utilization technology has a significant meaning from such a viewpoint. Upon receiving a request from NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) in 2002, JGC has been developing a continuous production technology for industrial ethanol from the plant industry waste together with the research laboratories of universities in Japan.
In addition, JGC is working on a facility in the Philippines that will produce bio-ethanol from sugarcane. The facility also has the capacity to generate renewable electric power from the sugarcane waste (bagasse).

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