Food waste to fuel John Lewis lorries
LIKE many of us, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver appears to have been over-indulging a bit during lockdown.
The TV star revealed a few extra “corona kilos” as he returned to his main family home in London yesterday.
The avid campaigner against junk food for kids has spent the last three months isolating at his £6million country mansion with wife Jools, 46, and their children Poppy, 18, Daisy, 17, Petal, 11, Buddy, nine, and River, three.
Jamie also filmed his Keep Cooking
And Carry On series from the retreat in Essex, using a mobile phone and Jools as his “TV crew”.
Highlights from the C4 series included twoingredient pasta and cheese toasties. Then, three weeks ago, Jamie posted a photo of himself celebrating his 45th birthday with a huge cream frosted cake.
Yesterday he wore a baggy T-shirt and elasticated shorts and had his long lockdown hair slicked back as he arrived back in the capital.
He previously said of social media users who mocked his mane while he was filming his series: “When I’m trying to do a nice thing for people don’t just judge me because it’s lockdown – do you know what I’m saying, it’s got limitations.”
The chef on C4 show, inset, and yesterday, right
TRUCKS operated by John Lewis and its supermarket arm Waitrose are to be powered by food waste.
The retail giant is building a biomethane gas filling station at its headquarters capable of powering 120 heavy goods vehicles.
It also plans to stop using fossil fuels across its entire 4,800 vehicle transport fleet within 10 years.
The partnership has replaced 85 of its heavy diesel trucks with biomethane models and is buying another 143 – the UK’s largest order – which will be in operation by the end of this year.
The filling station at its Bracknell, Berks, HQ will complement its gas stations near distribution centres at Northampton and Leyland, Lancs.
The Bracknell station will save 70,000 tons of CO2 – the carbon footprint of more than 13,000 households. The move came as a report by the Gas Vehicle Network claimed that by 2030 biomethane could power 13.2 million vehicles across Europe.
That would save £4billion a year in fuel costs and slash CO2 emissions by 15 million tons.
Biomethane is produced by fermenting food and other organic waste in anaerobic digesters, which are huge oxygen-free tanks.
Burning it is seen as climate neutral. Though greenhouse gases are released, it does not add them to the atmosphere because they were absorbed by plants in modern times.
Justin Laney, at John Lewis, said: “The evidence of climate change is all around us, so it’s important we act now using available technology rather than wait for unproven solutions.”