The UK could gain an edge in the race to become the most efficient converters of waste into energy when a £4 million research project comes to fruition.
Experts at the University of Exeter have been awarded the funding for groundbreaking research into creating biomethane, which can be burned to produce energy.
It is one of six large projects across the country to receive a share of a £20 million cash pot announced by Chancellor George Osborne yesterday. The grants are designed to revolutionise the application of synthetic biology in bio-industries. The...