For the first time in history, UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s will be using electricity generated entirely by its own food waste and leftovers for their stone in Cannock, Staffordshire, UK.
The leftovers will be transported to an anaerobic digester, where the energy will be turned into electricity and used to power the store through a privately owned power line that is one mile long.
The store will be relying entirely on this electricity that is essentially generated by the bacteria found on the rotten food. This provides enough energy to sever its connection to the national power grid altogether.
Sainsbury’s has previously announced that they’re using anaerobic digestion to produce enough electricity to power 2,500 homes.
