UK Environment Agency creates power from food waste
The UK Environment Agency has undertaken a new scheme of turning its leftover food into energy.
Food waste from the public sector organisation’s 37 sites is being collected and taken to a state of the art biomass plant where it is turned into renewable energy.
The participating sites create a monthly food waste of around 4.3 tonnes, which could generate 4.29MW of renewable energy, or enough to power an average Environment Agency office for a week.
It also saves 1.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide per month. The biomass plant is run by the UK largest food waste recycler the PDM group.
This is the latest in a series of measures the Environment Agency has taken to reduce the environmental impact of its everyday business.
Over 99% of the electricity used by the Environment Agency is from renewable sources, recycling facilities are available in every office and the organisation’s green travel policy has led to a mileage reduction of over 11.2 million miles in three years.
‘We put the environment at the heart of everything we do. It is important that we help set new standards on environmental performance and show public and private sector organisations not only that it can be done, but that it can be cost effective,’ said Graham Ledward, director of Resources at the Environment Agency.
Food waste from the public sector organisation’s 37 sites is being collected and taken to a state of the art biomass plant where it is turned into renewable energy.
The participating sites create a monthly food waste of around 4.3 tonnes, which could generate 4.29MW of renewable energy, or enough to power an average Environment Agency office for a week.
It also saves 1.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide per month. The biomass plant is run by the UK largest food waste recycler the PDM group.
This is the latest in a series of measures the Environment Agency has taken to reduce the environmental impact of its everyday business.
Over 99% of the electricity used by the Environment Agency is from renewable sources, recycling facilities are available in every office and the organisation’s green travel policy has led to a mileage reduction of over 11.2 million miles in three years.
‘We put the environment at the heart of everything we do. It is important that we help set new standards on environmental performance and show public and private sector organisations not only that it can be done, but that it can be cost effective,’ said Graham Ledward, director of Resources at the Environment Agency.
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