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How to Avoid Wasting Food and Money – Three Essential Tips

Nicholas Say — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:33:27 +0000

Imagine that you were going to work every day, and when you got paid, as soon as the money was in your hand, you took 40% and burned it. That sounds really self-defeating to me. If you don’t want that money, why work the hours in the first place? No sane person would ever do […]

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UK Supermarket Meets 100% of Its Energy Demands from Food Waste

Mila Luleva — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:42:06 +0000

Generating electricity from food waste and leftovers- not a new concept at all. But using the electricity generated from expired produce to fully power an entire supermarket, now this is a revelation. The first ever supermarket to be 100% powered by food waste from its shelves, opened its doors in Cannock, U.K.. Sainsbury’s store, together with a […]

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How Supermarkets Could be More Energy-Efficient: Study

Mila Luleva — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:23:49 +0000

Imagine how much electricity is required to sustain a supermarket with numerous rows of refrigerators and hundreds of lamps that light up the huge space. Statistics show that big supermarket chains use around ten times the energy of a normal household. Now a new concept developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy […]

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