Poo power: How Waitrose is using manure to fuel its tractors

Cecilia Keating
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The Leckford Estate's biogas tractor | Credit: John Lewis Partnership
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The Leckford Estate's biogas tractor | Credit: John Lewis Partnership

BusinessGreen reports from Hampshire, where the John Lewis Partnership is transforming cow dung into tractor fuel

At Waitrose's farm in Hampshire, a tractor is now running on cow manure. Or, to be more specific, the machine is being propelled by the ignition of gas that has been skimmed off the farm's enormous slurry...

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