A new £5m power plant in Stockport will heat homes using leftovers from the region's restaurants.The scheme is a joint venture between British Gas and renewable energy developer Bio Group.
It will take food waste from local restaurants, takeaways, hotels and offices and process it to produce biomethane gas.
The plant will be on a former landfill site in Ashton Road and will be able to power up to 1,400 homes when it becomes operational next April, diverting 250,000 tonnes of food from landfill a year.
Some of that waste will come from British Gas offices in the region.
Steve Sharratt, chief executive of Cambridgeshire-based Bio Group, said: “This facility has been designed using our ground-breaking technology as the next stage of a national roll-out of anaerobic digestion plants.
“It will make a real make a real difference to the future use of renewable gas across Greater Manchester.”
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