BBC News, Wiltshire
Designedscape architectUsing “cleaned” carbon dioxide in the greenhouse above a landfill, plans have been detected to grow fruits and vegetables, claiming that it will be a “world first”.
Landfill is run by Landfil Craper and Sons Limited in Wiltshire, which is currently waiting to obtain the permission of the project for the project.
The company already takes methane away from the garbage to provide electricity to its operation and sends energy to the national grid, as well as producing CO2.
Now after starting a community interest company called Sustain Wiltshire, he has said that he wants to use the site to grow food for the local area throughout the year.
Plans include using a greenhouse on the site to avail CO2 and heat to produce foods such as avocados, which are usually commercially grown in the UK.
The production will then be sold to people living in the local region in villages like Royal Wuton Baset, Malmsbury and Brinkworth.
Project director Nick Ash said that there are other similar projects around the world but the specific Wiltshire One is the first world.
“What comes from the top of the gas engine [the one already generating energy] It is quite clean co2. In Europe, it is already used in greenhouses, so we will receive it in our greenhouse.
“So you will develop them [vegetables and fruit] In a rich CO2 environment therefore they will grow better than normal air, “they explained.
“They [the plants] Will be using heat, light and power, but they will not have any contact with the ground. ,
At this time the system takes gases from the landfill and removes methane for electricity and cleanses gases – for example, by removing hydrogen sulfide and using bacteria – a by -product of the process with cleaner co2.
The project will include leveling of a large portion of the landfill site to create pits – called “cell” – which will be rolled with concrete and putting waste in them to produce gases.
The gas will then be captured and cleaned, so it can be used to produce electricity and pump the co2 into the greenhouse that will sit over the cells.
“We plan to completely change the method that we effectively landfill,” said Mr. Ash.
“it [waste] Rapidly reactive gas will go into cells, which will produce gas very quickly, then taken out nonsense, then [go into] Storage cells that feed the recycling. ,
The company has also planned to create a greenhouse portable, which will allow the pits to evacuate and put fresh waste.
Waste that cannot be recycled immediately, organic matter may rot and produce usable gas, and then that waste can be processed again.
Mr. Ash said that if the plan is allowed, the project will change the presence of the site, which will add more grass and trees.
The overall project is called super midday, based on mode – a word that is used by most archaeologists to describe ancient nonsense dump.
Craper and Sons Limited said that development can produce 80% of the surrounding area and produce vegetable needs, reduce emissions, improve food miles and food security.
Mr. Ash told the BBC that he does not think it would fail technically and the biggest challenge would “start something new”.
