Satellite images show the largest methane emitters in California are landfills... far more than the oil and gas sector or dairy farms. But the solution to that problem might already be in place.
Satellite images show the largest methane emitters in California are landfills... far more than the oil and gas sector or dairy farms. But the solution to landfills' greenhouse emissions problem might already be in place.
Solid waste has produced limited amounts of renewable natural gas at the Victor Valley landfill for years, but last year the facility repurposed these 330,000 gallon digesters to process food waste which is delivered to the facility by truck. Becoming the first wastewater treatment plant in the state to inject renewable natural gas made from wastewater solids and food waste into a utility pipeline.
It's in upgrader that the raw biogas is scrubbed of impurities and pipeline quality renewable gas is created and injected into the southwest gas system.
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