Waste-disposal units designed to turn leftover food into
electricity and fertiliser could be built around every town and
city as part of a scheme being considered by ministers. Most
waste food in Britain, including 6.7million tonnes from
households, is disposed of in landfill sites where it decomposes
and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. The average person
throws away four times their own body weight in food each year.
Pressure on space means that the country is running out of
suitable sites for landfill and, with punitive landfill taxes
introduced to encourage alternatives, digesters are increasingly
being seen as an environmentally friendly solution. Don't these
expert reporters know anything? - All that rotting food in
landfill is capped and the methane (70% or more of it) is
captured and used for electricity already - and we are not
running out of landfill space, the punitive taxes aren't to
there to prevent the UK overflowing, they are there because the
EU demands them. And don't even mention the