Renewable Natural Gas: A sound Option to Fight Organic Waste
Let’s play a game: what would you do with 25 million tons of organic waste annually?
Here are a few tidbits to spark your imagination: Organic waste includes food and green waste, landscaping and pruning waste, lumber, fiber, sewage and sludges.
The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles is the largest landfill in the United States (rising 500 feet high and covering 700 acres) and it has a capacity of 700 million tons. However, there is one caveat for this exercise that I forgot to mention — none of the organic waste can go to a landfill.
By Nina Kapoor, Capitol Weekly