A multi-million pound deal to build three food waste recycling centres in Oxfordshire has been signed, allowing kitchen waste collections to begin in the summer.
The food waste plants are to be created at Ashgrove Farm, Ardley, and Worton Park, Cassington, with a third plant to follow at a site near Wallingford.
Power generated from the waste food will be enough to provide electricity for more than one in 10 homes in Oxford.
Oxfordshire County Council has awarded the contract to the west Oxfordshire company Agrivert Ltd, which will build and operate the plants.
The three plants will cost a total of £17m. Work is expected to begin on the Ardley plant in May and it should be fully operational in December.
The Cassington plant should open in June 2010, with planning permission already granted for these two sites.
The plant to serve south Oxfordshire will open in 2011. Discussions about its location are continuing.
Agrivert already operates a compost site near RAF Benson, and County Hall confirmed it expects the third plant to be built nearby.
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