The Big Picture

Overview

BIOGEN takes what everyone throws away - waste from the UK food chain - and uses it as fuel to make renewable energy.

Our ’closed loop’ system recycles food waste into green energy and a rich bio-fertiliser that enables more environmentally sustainable food production.

Our process is a unique farm-based application of an established eco-technology called Anaerobic Digestion (AD) which uses bacteria in a sealed chamber to break down the food waste and produce a methane-rich biogas and a nutrient-rich bio-fertiliser.

The process is widely recognised by the government and others (DEFRA, WRAP, Friends of the Earth et al) as one of the best methods for the sustainable management of food waste. When compared to other methods, our sealed, energy-producing solution has the best available impact in reducing greenhouse gases and carbon emissions.

We like to describe it as a Win-Win-Win solution for waste disposal, farming and the environment.

Win for waste

It is an exemplary green solution for the disposal of food chain waste in a sealed process which reduces pollution.

Win for farming

It produces a highly stable, nutrient-rich, liquid bio-fertiliser that is applied back to farm and delivers significant environmental and financial cost savings.

Win for the environment

It converts the waste into renewable energy and helps to reduce greenhouse gases and carbon emissions.