Could you run your car on leftover lunch? – yes, you can!
Learn how we’re helping overcome the problem of food waste at our Högbytorp biogas plant in Sweden by making cars run with table scraps.
In Stockholm, Swedes are scraping the leftovers off their dinner plates and saving the scraps for our biogas plant, helping to overcome the challenges presented by both food waste and population growth by converting food waste into biogas.
Across Europe, food waste is a huge problem with over 58 million tonnes generated in the EU annually. In Sweden, we’re helping tackle this problem. On the outskirts of the capital our biogas plant in Högbytorp transforms food waste and other organic waste into biogas - a renewable alternative to petrol or diesel.
By taking in food and other organic waste from around the region and letting it decay to produce biomass, the site is capable of producing a whopping 60GWh of biogas annually. That’s enough to run a biogas car for approximately 100 million kilometres, contributing to reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.
Högbytorp continues to contribute to sustainable growth by transforming something nobody wants – waste - into something everybody wants - energy. What’s more, this site recycles as much as is feasibly possible and residual products are converted into electricity through combined heat and power (CHP) technology.
We’re also looking at opportunities to use biogas here in the UK. Our Elephant and Castle energy centre in the London Borough of Southwark complies with the ‘Zero Carbon Standard’. Complete with an expandable heating network for a community of 3,000 apartments, 50 shops, restaurants and cafes in the bustling London area, the site delivers low carbon heating and hot water to all its customers. With the addition of biogas we are looking to decarbonise the development even further.
The benefits of biogas are endless; it is almost completely CO2-neutral. Not only that, but biogas generation is completely sustainable, relying on renewable, natural materials that can be replanted or reproduced as needed.
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