PEELINGS and processing waste first goes into Pepsico's anaerobic digester
WASTE POTATO peel from a UK crisp factory is being turned into a fertiliser in a bid to reduce the business's carbon footprint.
Pepsico UK has joined forces with British clean-tech firm CCm Technologies to use its carbon-capture technology on potato peelings left over from making Walkers crisps in its Leicester factory, to turn it into low-carbon fertiliser to be returned to the farms across the UK where the potatoes for the crisps are grown.
Following a promising trial of the fertiliser, which was applied to potato seed beds this year, the company is planning to install CCm’s specialist equipment in 2021 to begin wider production. Once supplied at scale, the fertiliser is expected to reduce its potato-based carbon emissions by 70%.