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Garbage Is Dirty, But Is It A Clean Fuel? [1]

About 45 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles, a machine the size of a small truck flattens tons of food scraps, paper towels and other household trash into the side of a growing 300-foot pile. To Waste Management which operates the landfill, this is more than just a mountain of garbage. Pipes tunnelled deep into the mound extract gas from the rotting waste and send it to a plant that turns it into electricity.

Publication Date: 
22/05/2008
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Ethanol [3], Climate Change [4], Renewable Energy [5], Garbage [6], Waste Management [7], Electricity [8]
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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ethanol
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/garbage
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-management
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity