Kitchen scraps, grass clippings can aid EU energy security

Kitchen scraps, garden cuttings and other organic waste are not just of interest to gardeners using compost to fertilise their backyard runner beans.

The European Union is now set to turn its regulatory eye on those bits of our rubbish that smell the worst and even contribute to global warming - but also have great potential for renewable energy.

In an initial document laying out what the European Commission is thinking about "bio-waste," the EU executive says it is mulling over ...