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"NC Biomass Trader" is a convenient, free, online waste exchange for surplus and waste biomass materials such as waste vegetable oil, restaurant grease, wood waste?, manure?, food waste?, forest products? and agricultural products and byproducts.

The website is available to individuals, organizations and businesses that either have biomass commodities they would like to make available to those who can use them, or for those who are looking for biomass commodities. Although NC Biomass Trader is "not" a sales tool for commercial ventures to advertise their products, it is a platform for trading materials that may otherwise be discarded, buried in landfills, discharged to sewers or otherwise disposed and the energy value of those materials lost.

The website, which was re-launched in the fall of 2009, is a spin-off from the popular, free commodity trading site NC Waste Trader. The sites are a joint project of the North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance and the State Energy Office.

From its inauguration in 2003 until the present, NC Waste Trader has steadily grown with numerous entries from users listing all kinds of materials from hardwood scrap to hammermills among many other commodities. Over the years, NC Waste Trader listings became heavily populated with listings for biomass materials, so the natural move was to develop a free, online trader specifically for biomass.

The advent of biodiesel and green energy? production in North Carolina which led to the establishment of the Biofuels Center of North Carolina has also created a need for a trading platform for surplus and waste commodities that can be used as fuels. That need is being filled by NC Biomass Trader.

Products that can be listed in NC Biomass Trader include, but are not limited to:
  • Sawdust, wood chips and shavings
  • Industrial pallets and crates
  • Waste vegetable oil and grease
  • Old corrugated cardboard containers and paper waste
  • Surplus and discarded food items
  • Glycerin and other biodiesel production byproducts

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