Peterborough City Council has approved plans for an anaerobic digestion facility to convert household food waste into electricity and a compost-like soil improver.
The decision follows the council’s commitment to increase recycling and composting to more than 65% by 2020.
‘Food waste is now the biggest single item in household black bins, so introducing an anaerobic digestion-treatment process means we can boost recycling levels by up to 10%, while also generating valuable electricity and soil improver for use on farm land,’ said the city council’s cabinet member for the environment, Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald.
The city council aims to prepare a shortlist of contractors which can design, build and operate the council’s anaerobic-digestion facility, which will be built on council-owned land at Fengate.
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