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A SAINSBURY’S STORE in Cannock, England is coming off the British national grid and being powered day-to-day by rubbish.
Food waste unsuitable for donating to charity or to animals will be collected across Sainsbury’s stores in the UK and passed through advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) silos to break the waste down into methane gas (as shown in the Sainsbury’s infographic below).
The gas will then be used to produce electricity to power the Cannock store.
Any additional electricity generated through the AD facilities will be passed on to the national grid.
The supermarket chain says that the process’s by-product, called ‘digestate’, can be used as a fertiliser by local farms. It also says that all of the general waste produced in its stores is recycled or turned into fuel.
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Billing idea look forward to the same starting here
Brilliant idea looking forward to the same starting here ;)
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Brilliant idea looking forward to the same starting here ;-)
That was so 16 minutes ago
Great idea supermarkets generate a-lot of waste makes sense rather than going to a landfill :)
Obligatory “There’s enough hot air coming out of the Dail to power the whole of Ireland” comment
Yes and no. Sounds great but watched some late night sky thing on this a while back and in the UK farmers are growing crops like beet specifically to use in the digesters. This pushed up the price of all the land thereby pushing up the price of standard fruit and veg.
The smallest Infographic in the world…
Yeas just don’t get it. It appears initially that the supermarkets are doing the right thing. Recycling utilising waste to produce what! energy. However if you were to take account of the real cost of energy used to put that food on the supermarket shelf in the first place. I talking non sustainable fossil energy here. Everything from manufacturing cost packaging shipping labour storage refrigeration on and on. Even then the cost of recycling using non sustainable energy again. It has to be shipped again processed handled etc etc. Especially if this food item is of poor nutritional value. This scheme is one big shame. It’s a big PR stunt for sainsburys and you want to know something else we are paying for it. You would do more for the environment by not producing it in the first place and if it had to be produced limit packaging to a minimum. All recycling if it’s going to be done it should be done locally and I mean with zero energy cost.
Eh… Couldn’t they just set up a local food bank and help feed the homeless or poor? Would seem more worthy…
Read the whole story… They tell you it’s only food not fit for human consumption that goes into it..
I know a guy here who works in Sustainability for Sainsburys, I asked him the same thing and he stated that the majority of waste is out of date/spoiled and unfit for human consumption!
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