Four Loko Recycled Into Fuel Ethanol

With Four Loko banned in many states and being voluntarily pulled from shelves in others, there's quite a few cans of the stuff lying around in warehouses around the US. What to do with it all? Wholesalers from a number of southern states have been converting their excess stock into ethanol, with the help of MXI Enterprises, one of the three companies in the US that operates ethanol-recycling facilities, the AP reports.

The scores of Four Loko cases lying around "could go directly into a landfill or incinerator or some other waste process that's not as environmentally friendly, so I think it's a good thing," says MXI's VP.