Project aiming to convert CO2 into animal feed bags £3m government funding

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Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax Group
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Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax Group

REACT-FIRST consortium aims to turn CO2 captured at Drax’s biomass power plant in Yorkshire into sustainable animal feed

A "carbon recycling" project that aims to decarbonise food production by converting CO2 captured at Drax's Yorkshire biomass power plant into animal feed has launched after securing £3m support from the...

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