Cracking cheese, Gromit! Wensleydale waste to heat 4,000 homes
by Jillian Ambrose from Environment | The Guardian on (#4H876)
Yorkshire dairy by-products will be turned into renewable biogas to cut carbon emission
The crumbly cheese beloved of TV duo Wallace and Gromit will soon help heat thousands of Yorkshire homes with renewable "green gas" made from cheese waste.
The Wensleydale Creamery has struck a deal to supply the waste whey from its cheese factory to a local bioenergy plant that produces enough renewable biogas to heat 4,000 homes. The Leeming biogas plant, which currently runs on ice-cream residue, will use a process called anaerobic digestion to turn the dairy-based waste into renewable biogas.
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