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BRITAIN’S farmers reckon they can solve the country’s energy crisis – by powering a quarter of our homes with MANURE.
The UK’s biggest dairy cooperative, Arla, has issued a call to action for the government to tap into a major unused source of energy from farms and the wider food supply chain.
Figures show that, with support, nearly 91 million tonnes of manure and slurry and 10 million tonnes of food waste could be turned into 8billion cubic metres of biomethane.
This would be enough to heat 6.4 million homes or run around 3.8 million of the UK’s buses and heavy goods vehicles.
But at the moment, Britain is currently only using a quarter of the 170 million tonnes of organic waste produced in this country each year.