Why We Must Turn Food Waste Into Renewable Fuel
As the fight against climate change becomes more urgent, focus has increased on methane emissions, with U.S. climate envoy John Kerry tweeting that cutting methane is “the single most effective strategy we have to reduce global warming in the near term” to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Why? Because methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Reducing these emissions now can have a much-needed, fast-acting effect.
To most people, the obvious source of methane emissions is oil and gas production. But another part of the problem is right under our noses: our garbage.