\n More than 2,600 tonnes of food waste from homes across West Sussex have been successfully converted into clean energy and fertiliser since April, thanks to recent upgrades at the Anaerobic Digestion and Resource Recovery Facility (ADRRF) in Horsham.\n<\/p>\n
\n The facility, operated by Biffa under the West Sussex Waste Partnership, now processes food waste from across the county using anaerobic digestion.\n<\/p>\n
\n This process breaks down organic material to produce renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertiliser.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wayne Lewis, service director for environment and public protection at West Sussex County Council, said: “Reducing the amount of waste produced and managed in West Sussex is one of our key priorities, as set out in our Council Plan.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In the county we already recycle over 100,000 tonnes of material each year and being able to now recycle food waste separately is a great achievement.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Since the upgrade in April, 2,670 tonnes of food waste\u2014roughly the weight of 200 double-decker buses\u2014have been converted into renewable energy.\n<\/p>\n
\n The facility has the capacity to process the 35,000 tonnes of food waste expected to be collected from households across the county each year, helping West Sussex to meet new national recycling requirements.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Lewis said: “Converting the existing plant has been a huge undertaking and is a great example of the work we do with our partners here in West Sussex, helping us make better use of resources while protecting our environment for the future.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The renewable energy generated by the facility not only powers the site but also supplies excess electricity to the National Grid.\n<\/p>\n
\n Keith Sinfield, managing director of Biffa Treatment Services, said: “Biffa is delighted to be working in partnership with West Sussex County Council to deliver a circular solution at the ADRRF facility, transforming household food waste into renewable electricity to power the site and supply the grid for local homes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 2,600 tonnes of food waste from homes across West Sussex have been successfully converted into clean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}