Northumberland is set to benefit from a new, high-tech food digester that will provide renewable energy from the county's food waste.
The county council's strategic planning committee approved plans for the new £10 million anaerobic digestion facility at a meeting on Tuesday. It will be built on the site of a composting and wood shredding site on Ellington Road in the village of Ellington, north of Ashington.
Suez has said there is a "national need" to reduce food waste and to put any food that is wasted to good use. The facility will do that by turning food waste from across the region into "reliable, renewable energy" as well as compost-like soil improver.
