Pamela Lloyd, commercial director at Seven Trent Green Power, said, “We’re delighted to have been awarded this contract, and very much look forward to working in partnership with Peterborough City Council to provide them with a sustainable recycling solution for their food waste.”
Peterborough’s food waste will be treated at Severn Trent Green Powers North London anaerobic digestion facility in London Colney, Hertfordshire, where 50,000 tons of household and commercial food waste is treated each year. That’s enough to generate 3MW of electricity or produce enough energy to power almost 6,000 homes. This site alone has the net carbon benefit equivalent of taking 71,000 cars off the road.
Lloyd added, “We’re starting to look after the city’s food waste at a time when we all need to think differently about how do things when we’re out and about. We want to reassure everyone that we’re taking extra precautions and closely following government advice, to keep everyone as safe as possible when we’re collecting curbside food waste.”
