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What if a hospital or manufacturing plant could process its waste into synthetic fuel that would, in turn, provide power to that business? If that process could be done on site at a cost of just 22 cents per pound of waste, companies across the country would surely jump on the technology, right?

Not so fast.

Northbrook, Ill.-based Peat International Inc., which bills itself as a waste-to-resources company, has found success selling its waste treatment systems overseas in Taiwan and India.