Air Company makes vodka out of CO2 emissions, backed by Toyota, JetBlue

The Air Company, a New York City-based startup, is making vodka out of CO2 emissions. It hopes to launch several other products, including perfume.

At Bathtub Gin, a reinvented speakeasy in lower Manhattan, patrons may be pining for the past but they are drinking a vodka specifically invented for a cleaner future. Air Vodka is made in part from greenhouse gas emissions – specifically, captured carbon dioxide. It is just one of a bevy of new products designed to make use of CO2 emissions that can be captured from various types of industry. "We work with partners that capture that carbon dioxide before it's emitted into the atmosphere, and then we use that CO2 in our process in creating the alcohols that we create," said Gregory…

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