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"Across the United States, landfills are accumulating trash faster than
materials can decompose. In the nearly 2,000 landfills in the US, food waste
contributes over 50 percent of fugitive methane emissions from municipal solid
waste landfills, those invisible plumes of potent greenhouse gas emissions that
seep out of landfills and into the atmosphere.
Landfills rank as the third-largest human-generated source of methane emissions
in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While
diverting trash altogether would be the preferred outcome for pollution
reduction, about 500 landfills across the country have turned to a novel way of
combating pollution from the waste that is ending up in landfills: capturing
the gas emitted from organic materials and transforming it into electricity.
“Methane is already in our environment today. You either use it or lose it,”
says Mike Bakas, alluding to the methane that is wasted if it’s not captured.
Bakas leads all landfill projects and renewable natural gas business at
Ameresco, a company that designs, builds and operates renewable energy plants
for landfills around the US."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
