Rubbish could provide 17% of UK electricity
Around 17% of the UK's electricity could be generated from household rubbish by 2020, according to a joint report from the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Renewable Power Association.
More than half of the 30 million tonnes of rubbish sent to English landfills could power two million homes a year, the report says, with the majority of this waste named in EU law as sources of renewable energy. Around 20 million
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