Sentences with phrase «decomposing organic waste»

This AGL operated landfill extracts methane - rich gas from decomposing organic waste to generate 7,500 MWh of electricity per annum, enough to supply more than 1,100 homes.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R - CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste....

The first chamber your solid waste will travel to is the rotating drum which will actively decompose organic waste.

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About half of that waste comes from food scraps and other organic materials, producing methane and other greenhouse gases as it decomposes.

At the same time, organic refuse from cities that could be turned into carbon - building soil amendments often goes to waste in landfills, decomposing and emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Biogas is made by decomposing organic matter like food waste or grass in the absence of oxygen.

89 Until we get zero waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

The city could turn some of its organic waste into biochar instead of letting it decompose, and offer discounted biochar to urban gardeners.

For those of us on a more human time frame, the methane and other gases emitted from decomposing organic matter work just as well as the stuff you have to frack out of the ground... and, as you can see in the infographic below, create all sorts of opportunities to deal with wastes more efficiently, and to even create a few jobs.