Julie Girling MEP visited Andigestion Limited's biogas plant in Holsworthy on Friday to learn more about how food waste is processed to make sufficient electricity to power 7,500 homes daily.

Peter Prior, chairman of Andigestion Limited, hosted the visit and showed Mrs Girling the company's plans to safeguard the future of the business.

The Holsworthy biogas plant processes waste food to make biogas and biofertiliser. The biofertiliser is used by local farmers as a replacement for chemical fertilisers.

The biogas is used to power combustion engines which make the electricity and also heat, which is largely wasted to the atmosphere.

Andigestion has plans to utilise the waste heat to grow flowers in greenhouses and to improve the quality of the biofertiliser. These further developments will provide at least 30 more local jobs.

The visit provided an opportunity to discuss the government's support of the renewables industry and the meeting of the EU's targets on low carbon economies set for 2020.

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