How can food waste be used as fuel?

How much food waste does your family produce?

UK households throw away more than 6 million tonnes of food every year - that's around 1.3 million average-sized cars, or about 1.3 million elephants.

Science presenter Fran Scott has been finding out how our food waste can be changed into fuel, which is much more useful than it being dumped at landfill sites.

You can find out more about food waste from Ready Meals: What They Really Mean For You on BBC iPlayer now.