In Auckland alone we send 100,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill every year. Now food scrap bins are being rolled out across the city to help use that food for fuel, at the country's first large-scale "waste to bio energy" processing facility.
Checkpoint reporter Louise Ternouth and camera operator Nick Monro went to Reporoa in the central North Island to check it out.
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