{"id":12478,"date":"2014-10-17T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:50","slug":"british-supermarket-to-power-itself-solely-with-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/british-supermarket-to-power-itself-solely-with-food-waste","title":{"rendered":"British Supermarket to Power Itself Solely With Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Baker \u2014 Nation of Change<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s good to refrain from wasting energy, but it\u2019s even better to procure energy from items that you otherwise would waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">That\u2019s the thinking behind the latest announcement from Sainsbury\u2019s, the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The chain\u2019s Cannock location will soon be powered solely by the company\u2019s own food waste. Waste management and recycling firm Biffa has partnered with the store to use its advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities and a power link that allows the Cannock store to use the waste generated from Sainsbury\u2019s other locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThis groundbreaking project helps to close the loop on food recycling and [allows] Sainsbury\u2019s to continue to send zero operational waste to landfills,\u201d reads the chain\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/british-supermarket-power-itself-solely-food-waste-1406213186\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Baker \u2014 Nation of Change It\u2019s good to refrain from wasting energy, but it\u2019s even better to procure energy from items that you otherwise would waste. That\u2019s the thinking behind the latest announcement from Sainsbury\u2019s, the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The chain\u2019s Cannock location will soon be powered solely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46823,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions\/46823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}