Archive - Press releases

04/11/2010 - Jack O Lanterns Power National Grid

Hundreds of Bedfordshire’s scariest Halloween pumpkins will be recycled to produce electricity for the national grid.

03/09/2010 - Fill up on Food Waste and Save the Planet

Lorries going to and from your local supermarket could soon be powered by food waste.

23/08/2010 - Council run vans on banana skins

The Deputy Mayor of Bedford Borough, Charles Royden, visited BiogenGreenfinch's Twinwoods biogas plant in Milton Ernest to see council vehicles being refuelled with biomethane,...

17/08/2010 - National grid gets food boost

Waitrose is making carbon savings equivalent to permanently taking a thousand cars off the road – all by stopping its food waste from going to landfill.  The scheme is producing e...

04/08/2010 - Work begins on anaerobic digester

Harper Adams University College is expanding its commitment to sustainable energy with work due to start this week on a £3million-plus renewable power system at its Shropshire campus.

21/07/2010 - Government Champions Fuel of the Future

Environment Minister Lord Henley has toured an anaerobic digester, as the Government considers how such technology can provide a green energy boost for Britain.

01/07/2010 - Green Funding Crisis

The boss of Britain’s leading Anaerobic Digestion (AD) business says ambitious plans to cut greenhouse emissions, reduce landfill and increase the generation of green energy can only s...

14/06/2010 - Whitbread announces eco-friendly waste disposal roll out

Whitbread PLC, the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant company, has announced that it is going to roll out an innovative food waste recycling scheme to over 300 of its hotels and restaur...

22/03/2010 - Hilary Benn MP visits Westwood AD plant

"This is the future and it is already happening here."

05/03/2010 - Norris makes stop at Branston's AD plant

Minister for Rural Affairs and Environment, Dan Norris MP, was in Lincolnshire to see how leading fresh produce supplier Branston Ltd is to transform outgrade potatoes into electricity.

14/02/2010 - BiogenGreenfinch and Ealing Council - prestigious award for partners in grime

Electricity from food waste specialist, BiogenGreenfinch, has been recognised by the judges at two awards ceremonies in one week. Last night (Thursday 11th Feb.) the company was Highly Comme...

01/02/2010 - BiogenGreenfinch Scoop 3 Industry 'Oscars'

BiogenGreenfinch scored a hat-trick of wins in the 2010 Rushlight Awards, the Oscars of the Environmental World including the top award of the entire event, the Rushlight Award for, "a subst...