Article 6S8MG Spain's olive farmers, desperate for profit, burn pits

Spain's olive farmers, desperate for profit, burn pits

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editors@theworld.org (Gerry Hadden)
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At a bar, your olive pits end up in the trash. In Spanish olive presses, however, they're collected, dried and sold as a "bio-fuel" for furnaces. In the race for sustainable heat sources, even big companies are getting into this side business. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from La Galera, Spain.

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