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UK supermarket Sainsbury's has opened a 'green' store in Dartmouth, Devon.

According to the company, the store will use 50% less energy from the national grid, and will produce 40% less carbon dioxide than a normal store.

Sainsbury's also planted 400 trees to compensate for the 200 that were used to build the timber frame. The building site itself also chipped in by recycling 90% of construction waste.

Neil Sachdev, commercial director at Sainsbury's, said: "We've been keen to experiment with a number of energy-saving measures here, from sun pipes, which provide amazing natural light, to using a timber frame rather than steel, which consumes less energy in its production, but looks good too."

Sainsbury's also unveiled a delivery lorry that's powered by the gas produced from rotting rubbish such as waste food, garden waste and newspapers dumped in landfill.

The lorry made its first daily drop-off at the new Dartmouth store in a 300-mile round trip from the firm's depot in Bristol.

Sainsbury's is the first UK supermarket to deliver food using the green fuel technology.