Sugar processing plants have far more bagasse than they can ever use. My father and great grandfather both worked at sugar mills in Louisiana. Most bagasse sit

Sugar processing plants have far more bagasse than they can ever use. My father and great grandfather both worked at sugar mills in Louisiana. Most bagasse sits in gigantic piles that need to be constantly soaked with water (we're talking about a 10,000 ton pile of sugar-enriched fermentable plant matter sitting in the sun during a tropical summer) until it is harvested by companies that make particle board.