This french-fry plant is fuelled by potato scraps | CBC News
“We’ve actually been able to reduce our carbon footprint by 60 per cent,” said Cash.
Fewer trucks on the road
Cash said using the waste to create biogas also means the company isn’t trucking about a dozen loads of potato waste offsite every day — as it used to.
“So the peel, the raw material, the frozen product that’s not fit to go into a bag would all have been trucked offsite to animal feed lots,” he said.