Waste-powered shopping: John Lewis to build biomethane filling plant

Cecilia Keating
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Owner of Waitrose and John Lewis reveals plans to build filling station for its growing fleet of biomethane trucks as it unveiled a fresh commitment to wean its entire transport fleet off fossil fuels by 2030.

John Lewis Partnership has unveiled plans to build a new bio-methane gas filling station that would allow Waitrose lorries to run on fuels derived from food waste and other waste materials instead of diesel....

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