One company known picking up trash is leading the way in an alternative source. Waste Management, the trash giant, has spent extensive time and money to develop ways of taking landfill gas, something they have readily available and transforming it into usable energy. According to Waste Management’s web site, “using landfills, we produce over 550 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power more than 444,000 homes. This amount of energy is equivalent to offsetting over 2.2 million tons of coal per year.”
The process works by capturing the gases naturally released from the landfill and harvesting it into a renewable energy source. Essentially this company takes our trash, and turns it into our treasure= energy. Waste Management has plans to expand its alternative energy capacity to power over two million homes by 2020.
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