Street artist paints Torbay for bold new campaign

Images credit: SWISCo / Szabotage  SWISCo has partnered with local graffiti artist Gus Szabo, or Szabotage, for a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of food waste recycling. Szabotage has brightened the Bay’s streets once again with a new piece of artwork on a rubbish truck as part of the new ‘Peel Power’ campaign. The ‘Peel Power’ campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of recycling food waste and the energy that can be generated from it. For example, recycling just 9 orange peels creates enough energy to fully charge a laptop, and 6 teabags can generate enough energy to boil the kettle for your next cup of tea. SWISCo approached Szabotage for this collaboration after being inspired by the artist’s mural in Preston. The main aim behind this project is to encourage more people across Torbay to use their food waste bins.  Food waste collected in Torbay is sent to Holsworthy for a process called anaerobic digestion (AD). AD is a process where microorganisms break down food waste in the absence of oxygen, resulting in the production of biogas and digestate.  Using a food waste bin regularly not only helps create clean, renewable energy but can also...