Turning Trash Gas into a Sustainable Energy Source
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The estimated 250 million tons of trash that enters the municipal waste system in the U.S. each year can actually be useful. In the past, a landfill was simply a giant mound of garbage, but that’s starting to change. More and more landfills across the country are turning to new technologies designed to convert a potentially harmful byproduct of landfills, methane gas, into a usable source of energy.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) in an effort to help reduce the amount of methane gas released into the atmosphere. Landfills release 27.5 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere each year, making it the third largest human-generated source in the country. The goal of LMOP is to assist landfills in capturing landfill gas (LFG) and converting it to energy. Methane gas in the atmosphere contributes to poor air quality, climate change and breaking down of the ozone layer. Converting LFGs to energy also helps reduce the need for fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, making it a much greener alternative.
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