Landfill Creates Fuel for Garbage Trucks

	Landfill Creates Fuel for Garbage Trucks Posted by Joe Laur on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 11:11am
		Gimme Shelter from Methane: Passing Gas is Rude to the Planet! Photo: Fabrizio Giuliano Altamont, California, best known for the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter concert, now has a new claim to fame- passing gas. Only this time it’s all good. The Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility is now the world’s largest landfill to liquefied natural gas facility. With the innovative capture technologies in place, methane- a Greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than CO2- is being turned into a resource. The project represents cross sector collaboration with Waste Management, Linde, and the State of California. The captured methane is processed into liquefied natural gas that is powering 300 Waste Management trucks daily, realizing ultra low carbon emissions from the natural gas and saving all that petro diesel and fine particle pollution to boot. WM is hoping to harvest 13,000 gallons of this fuel a day for their fleet. This is a project grand in concept, innovative leadership and scale. It’s a great example of once again “closing the loop” and transforming waste to resources. This approach will provide green jobs and cleaner air for California and the rest of us. It has inspired me to poetry: Methane Haiku Passing gas is rude Capture and transform methane Waste into resource! Share