Posted on 12/07/2020 4:44:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The pub staples of beer and crisps could soon be destined for bigger things after a technology firm worked out how to harness the emissions and waste from their manufacturing processes to tackle climate change.
Emissions from beer fermentation in a brewery, which usually produces a high amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), will be captured and mixed with potato waste - so it can be turned into fertiliser.
The idea has been developed by UK firm CCm Technologies, which trialled the fertiliser on potato seed beds earlier in the year, and has been adopted by crisps giant Walkers.
The Leicester-based crisps firm will install the carbon capture equipment at its factory ahead of the 2022 crop, with its owners looking for ways to source the gas from inside the company.
It is expected that Walkers will reduce its carbon emissions by 70% once the project is rolled out more widely, and could even become a carbon-negative potato producer by 2030.
David Wilkinson from US snack conglomerate PepsiCo, which owns Walkers, said: "From circular potatoes to circular crops, this innovation with CCm Technologies could provide learnings for the whole of the food system, enabling the agriculture sector to play its part in combating climate change.
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It worked so well for the Irish back in the 1840s.
Just bringing attention to themselves. Now the storm troopers will be targeting beer and potatoes as the grestest threat to mankind.
They’ll soon find the mob outside of Lot’s house can never be sated.
I don’t know about climate change but since I started drinking beer again my liver tumor has shrunk.
While china continues to poison the air for us all
I don’t drink...and I’m on a diet. So no beer and crisps for me.
What’s a lad to do save the world? Meth?
The idiots continue to fight something that has been transpiring for millions of years.........
Andy Capp is pleased...
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