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Better living through reuse.

BOSSES at a composting site in Suffolk are planning to use residents' rubbish to make electricity.

For years, Greenview Environmental has composted waste from St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath at its site in Lackford, near Bury St Edmunds.

But the firm now plans to use new technology to turn 26,000 tonnes of collected waste each year into compost and electricity.

The system involves green waste from kitchens and gardens being put through a modified Tollemache machine which pulverises the waste before air is forced through it, heating it up to kill potentially-harmful microbes.

The end product can then be left to become compost or fed through an anaerobic digester which will generate electricity.

It is believed the site could produce between one and three megawatts of electricity which will be sold to the National Grid.