Guilt free snacking: UK farmers produce energy making potato crisps in a fully compostable packet

(15 Sep 2024)
HZ UK SUSTAINABLE CRISPS

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Peterstow, UK - 14 August 2024
1. Various of packs of Two Farmers' crisps on production line
2. Tilt of Two Farmers' crisps being packed
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Mason, Farmer and co-founder of Two Farmers:
"This is 100% cellulose film. It's the only fully compostable crisp packet that we know of. This took us four years to develop and we're now on to our third generation and we're actually trying a fourth generation and trying to extend shelf life. Whatever you do with this packet, it will break down, it will dissolve back into water, carbon dioxide and biomass."

4. Various of Two Farmers' potato fields at their Herefordshire farm
5. Various of potato harvester, harvesting potatoes
6. Interior of driver's cab, as farmer drives harvester
7. Various of potatoes being loaded on to trailer from harvester
8. Various of farmers and co-founders of Two Farmers Mark Green and Sean Mason walking through potato field
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Green, Farmer and co-founder of Two Farmers:
"We're growing lots of crops on our farm. Potatoes, cereals, beetroot and energy crops, but what we try to do is farm all of these intensively but at the same time we want to be environmentally friendly and sustainable in our farming business. So, since early 2000s we've been looking at our soils and our cropping and how we can bring the two together to look after our soils and actually make sustainable farming with the intensive potato crop like this one here."

10. Various of farmers and operatives sorting potatoes which have come from the farm, throwing away rocks and other unwanted debris
11. Various of potatoes on the sorting production line
12. Close of potatoes after they have been cleaned
13. Various of Two Farmers' anaerobic digestor plant
14. Medium of Mark Green walking on the anaerobic digestor plant
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Green, Farmer and co-founder of Two Farmers:
"Any waste that we produce on the farm comes here. So, in our clamps behind us we grow maize on the farm. We take chicken muck from the chicken production on the farm, we've got waste fruit off the farm, we've got grass which was grown on the farm, and all of this is collected here, and there's also waste crisps from the production and waste potatoes from the farm, all come here and they go to this feeder behind me where it is macerated up and it then ends up in this giant tank here which is the anaerobic digestor, what we call the digestor."

16. Wide of various silage clamps part of anaerobic digestor plant
17. Medium of a silage clamp with waste products including grass and berries
18. Various of Paul Green inspecting maize in the maize silage clamp
19. Pan of liquid digestate which is produced by the anaerobic digestor plant
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Green, Farmer and co-founder of Two Farmers:
"In there, there are lots of microorganisms that break down all this material that we put in, everything off the farm, all our waste, break it down and produces methane gas. That methane gas then travels to an engine, it runs the engine, the engine then generates the electric, which we take out to the farm. What we don't use goes to the national grid."

21. Wide inside the Two Farmers crisp production facility
22. Various of crisps being fried
23. Various of crisps being dragged along production line
24. Tilt of flavouring machine adding seasoning to the friend crisps

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