The Next Step To Combating Climate Change Could Be Found In America's Landfills

Dec 5

By Cummins Westport, via A Plus.

Sometimes, clean solutions can be found in surprisingly dirty places.

The average American throws five pounds of trash a day into landfills, according to a 2015 Yale study, partially funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published in the Nature Climate Change journal. In 2013, that added up to 294 million tons. That's a lot of trash, but there's one amazing thing we can do with it: convert it to biogas.

The Next Step To Combating Climate Change Could Be Found In America's Landfills

Sometimes, clean solutions can be found in surprisingly dirty places.

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