Production of a fermentation product from a composite material

A method for producing an alcoholic fermentation product comprising:

• a) providing a quantity of municipal solid waste;
• b) preprocessing the municipal solid waste to create preprocessed municipal solid waste having a more useful particle size;
• c) inserting the preprocessed municipal solid waste into a hydrolyzer;
• d) processing the municipal solid waste within the hydrolyzer to create a composite material containing glucan, xylan and about at least 10 percent moisture content;
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• e) treating the composite material with simultaneous saccharification and fermentation components to convert at least a portion of the composite material to an alcoholic fermentation product having at least about 60 percent alcohol.