Food To Fuel  

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the criticism of first generation biofuels like corn based ethanol turning food into fuel - however this is the first time I've seen the phrase taken literally. Clean tech.com reports - Sainsbury's to send unsold food to UK biomass plant.

The UK's third largest supermarket chain, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, announced plans today to use its unsold food in Scotland to power a biomass plant near Motherwell, about 15 miles southeast of Glasgow.

The chain's 28 stores in Scotland send 42 metric tons of waste to landfills each week. The effort would divert the waste and produce enough power for a town the size of Inverness, which has a population over more than 50,000. The chain said each metric ton could power 500 homes. ...

Sainsbury's announced the plans at the Zero Waste conference in Edinburgh today. The effort will be rolled out in Scottish stores this month, with stores throughout the UK diverting unsold food to biomass plants by the summer. The chain plans to stop sending food waste to landfills by summer and any waste by the end of the year.