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RENEWABLE ENERGY
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A European Commission report revealed that 14 % of the EU ’ s wood bioenergy comes from an unknown source . This could mean that it does not come from wooden by-products , such as sawdust , but from healthy trees .
According to the United Nations , up to 690 million people went hungry in 2019 . For those people impacted by food insecurity , biomass made from food waste is a controversial and even insensitive idea .
Biomass can also be deployed on a bigger scale . In the UK , the government has started a £ 4m fund , The Biomass Feedstock Innovations Programme , which will support organisations that want to begin their production of renewable energy through biomass . As the pool of available fossil fuels becomes smaller , and the environmental consequences of their use become clearer , the world must expand the possibilities of renewable energy – and shed its disgust of animal droppings .
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