Fizzy drinks to be carbonated using factory gas emissions

Fizzy drinks could soon be carbonated using gas emissions from factories. [Photo: Getty)

Britain plans by 2040 to develop the world's first net-zero carbon industrial centre by teaming up emitters with industries that can reuse their polluting gases or by moving to lower carbon fuels such as hydrogen, it said on Thursday.

The government said it will commit up to £170 million ($215 million) to the project, which could include capturing emissions from factories and reusing them in industries such as brewing to put the fizz in drinks.