Waste from producing a cheese, immortalised by the animated Wallace and Gromit films, is to help power hundreds of homes. The Wensleydale Creamery has signed a deal to supply whey from its factory in the Yorkshire Dales to a biogas plant. It will then be broken down to produce gas in a process called anaerobic digestion. It prevents food waste being allowed to rot in landfill where it produces carbon-rich methane, the company said. The Wensleydale Creamery produces 4,000 tonnes of cheese a year at its dairy in Hawes, North Yorkshire. The white, crumbly cheese was first made by Cistercian monks in the 12th Century but ... (full story)