The old regulatory paradigm that ties utility profits to generating and selling more energy is actually encouraging waste.

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"The Eco Park will help us to treat food and household waste in a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way, while generating green electricity from rubbish that can't be recycled, " he said.

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More time is then left to devote to his income-generating greenhouse, which uses waste slurry left over from the biogas digester as fertilizer for his grapes, strawberries, apples, plums, cherries, peaches, eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes and squash.

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