Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed they were called to reports of an explosion but there was no fire. The incident occurred on Wednesday 20th Sept 2017.
Two people were rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
Nottinghamshire Police confirmed there had been a gas explosion followed by a tanker collapsing at the East Midlands Biogas Centre, which turns food waste into energy.
Police have said they are not treating the incident as suspicious and the HSE is now dealing with the matter in its entirety.
Bio Dynamic currently converts up to 50,000 cubic metres of food waste per annum, typically including date expired food from retail and hospitality businesses, as well as organic waste from food processing plants. All this waste, created by our modern way of living, would otherwise be sent to landfill, creating methane-a greenhouse gas which would enter the atmosphere as well as risking run off of organic material into rivers.
The East Midlands Biogas Centre instead benefits the local environment by making use of this waste by converting it into energy in the form of biogas and producing usable fertiliser products.
