Renewable energy experts behind a new food waste recycling plant are raising funds for two Gwynedd causes with a sponsored combined cycle and hike up Snowdon.

Work is forging ahead at Biogen’s Bygrave green energy plant in Hertfordshire. The 45,000 tonne per year anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, located just off the A505, will generate renewable energy from food waste and is on schedule for completion in the last quarter of 2014.

Biogen last night won the 2013 National Recycling Award in the category "Recycling and Waste Management Business of the Year - SME".

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited Biogen's first full-scale food waste anaerobic digestion plant in Wales.