Health | FDA Four Loko Recycled Into Fuel Ethanol Widely banned drink proves useful after all By Nick McMaster Posted Jan 7, 2011 3:08 PM CST Copied In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, Four Loko alcoholic energy drinks are seen in the cooler of a convenience store, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) 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. Read These Next Colbert tells audience it's curtains for his Late Show. Rare cancer claims a former Super Bowl champ. This is why you don't wear metal in MRI rooms. Sources say Trump's card to Epstein was signed in a strange place. Report an error