Advantages and disadvantages of biomass

Advantages

• Recycling waste materials can be a solution to the problems with disposing of waste products.
• The fuel produced tends to be cheap.
• Biomass reduces the demand on non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels.

Disadvantages

• Maintaining a supply of the waste product in sufficient quantities to maintain energy production can be difficult.
• The burning of the fuels used for biomass energy produces greenhouse gases.
• Waste materials may only be available seasonally (for example at harvest time).