Sushiro and JFE Engineering cook up food waste-to-energy cycle

Partner restaurants to buy generated power

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This sphere-shaped tank in Fukuoka temporarily stores biogas produced from food waste. (Photo by Yuta Fukushima)

TAISEI ASAHI

TOKYO -- JFE Engineering is joining hands with a quartet of major restaurant chains in Japan to produce electricity using biogas from food scraps, selling the power generated back to these partners.

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