The Next Step To Combating Climate Change Could Be Found In America's Landfills
By Cummins Westport, via A Plus.
Sometimes, clean solutions can be found in surprisingly dirty places.
In this video, Former "Mythbuster" Jamie Hyneman teams up with his good friends, Bessie and Cummins Westport, to get the conversation about renewable resources and climate change moving forward in a positive direction.
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.