Scott’s Porage Oats, a Quaker Oats Factory at Uthrogle Mills in Scotland is installing a combined heat and power biomass boiler that will enable the factory to become carbon-neutral, running entirely on waste oat husks

will allow oat husks—the part of the oat left over from porridge making—to generate renewable power for the entire site

the steam and electricity produced would reduce carbon emissions by 9000 tonnes a year—equivalent to the typical annual carbon emissions of 3000 cars

Surplus power will be released to the National Grid, preventing a further 1800 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually

The move will also cut out the need for transporting husks away from the site, which accounts for 172,000 miles and 600 tonnes of carbon emissions a year

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Now none of the energy stored in the oats will go to waste.