By James Murray, Source: Business Green

One of the UK’s leading anaerobic digestion firms has today launched a new “sustainable fertiliser”, underlining how the technology promises to generate revenues from both clean energy generation and the processing of food waste materials.

ReFood announced that it is launching a new branded fertiliser, known as ReGrow, which contains high levels of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. The company said the product would “typically double yields if applied as part as a comprehensive crop strategy”.

The fertiliser, which was officially launched at an event at ReFood’s gas-to-grid anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Widnes, is produced from the digestate that results when food waste is processed to produce biogas using an anaerobic digestion plant.

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