Businesses in England are being encouraged by the government to turn their animal, farm and food waste into energy using anaerobic digestion (AD).
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has outlined a plan to support the clean energy technology, which could see more heavy duty conveyors set up for operation across the nation.
Energy from waste has been heralded as one of a number of ways the UK’s commercial sector can work towards reaching its emissions reduction targets in the years ahead.
Defra’s Accelerating the Uptake of Anaerobic Digestion in England report sets out steps to be taken in order to help and encourage local authorities, farmers and food producers to adopt the technology, which turns waste into biofuel.
Launching the plan, environment secretary Hilary Benn said: "Anaerobic digestion has fantastic potential because it uses organic material that would otherwise be thrown away and converts it into renewable energy."
Among the measures are grants and other such financial incentives, as well as a £10 million demonstration programme that will be used to show off the financial and environmental benefits of AD across the country.
There are currently ten facilities set up in England to process municipal and commercial waste using AD, up from three just three years ago.
