An ethanol plant is coming to eastern Kentucky.

A national company, Agresti Bio-Fuels, is building an ethanol plant in Pike County.

The Central Appalachian Ethanol Plant will be built next to the Pike County landfill and it will turn the solid waste into ethanol fuel.

This will also create hundreds of new jobs.

Soon your trash could power your car.

Agresti Biofuels officials plan to turn Eastern Kentucky garbage into ethanol fuel.

“Very excited, this is a big day for the county,” Roger Ford, Pike County Energy Director, said.

Pike County officials say the landfill is running out of room.

County officials were looking for a new landfill site, but Agresti officials offered to get rid of the trash altogether, and use it to make ethanol.

“They have a need, we have a process, so it's a good fit,” Zig Resiak said.

“It solves a lot of our problems down the road in the next decade or so,” Ford said.

The plant will go on 40 acres next to the landfill.

It will cost 200 million dollars to build, but Agresti is paying for it all; no taxpayer dollars will be used.

Builders say they'll hire 300 construction workers and plan to pay almost 90 million dollars total in wages.

Once finished, officials say the plant will have 120 high-paying jobs.

The plant is expected to produce 20 million gallons of fuel each year, and be environmentally safe.

“There's no smokestacks here. We're not burning anything here,” Resiak said.

They'll recycle all of the plastics and metal in the trash.

“The really great thing about this is we're capturing the pollution that would have gone to the landfill, and we're converting it into a fuel or recyclable products,” Resiak said.

Organizers hope to market the fuel to local gas stations.

Construction will start as soon as they have all the building permits, which will probably be early next year.

Agresti and Pike County officials are holding a public forum to answer questions tomorrow from 4:00 to 5:30 in the fiscal courtroom.