UCC is looking at using grass to create ‘biogas’

ARE you regularly stuck with the problem of how to dump grass cuttings after cutting your lawn?

The Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College Cork is conducting research on how best grass cuttings or silage could be used to power transport in the future.

In Linkoping in Sweden, 65 buses, 600 cars, 10 waste collection lorries and a train are all powered by biogas — or belly gas — as it’s literally the methane from a cow’s stomach and entrails which is distilled to make biogas.