An important new eco-friendly power plant planned for Selby, North Yorkshire, UK has received extra funding from the Uk Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)’s Organic Capital Grant Fund.

The plant, costing £20 million in total, will use anaerobic digestion to produce eight megawatts of electricity from 165, 000 tonnes of food waste that would have otherwise ended up in landfill.

It’s estimated that 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions will be saved annually.

However, should we really be producing the food waste to power this plant?

Certainly, some food waste is unavoidable, such as orange peel. Yet will such plants cause us to waste more food and thus cause food availability and global warming elsewhere in the world?

We’ll wait and see.

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