Our leftovers could be used to provide electricity to seventeen-hundred homes in Somerset.

A recycling centre which uses an anaerobic digester to generate power from peelings and old fruit is to be built at Walpole just north of Bridgwater by April next year.

Thirty thousand tonnes of food waste will be mixed with water and gas at the plant, which Somerset Waste Board reckons will save taxpayers one million pounds over the next five years.