How Garbage Can Power Cities

As of July this year, there are 636 U.S. municipal projects that convert landfill gas — the carbon dioxide and methane and other volatile compounds emitted from our packed-in garbage — to energy. They are in every state in the country except for Hawaii and Wyoming, and for the most part, they focus on generating electricity. But there are other potential uses for the energy trapped in cities’ waste, and increasingly the people responsible for it are trying out innovative ways of extracting energy from garbage.

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