Record #:

31075

Author(s):

Gery, Michael E.C.

Abstract:

Trash emits enough methane gas to generate electricity that can supply more than six-hundred average North Carolina houses every day. While North Carolina produces more than ten-million tons of trash in landfills per year, the state is investing in landfill gas production and other renewable energy projects.

Source:

Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 38 Issue 11, Nov 2006, p8, il

Subject(s):

Landfills; Methane; Renewable energy