We Need Many More!
Do you have “MSW to Gas and Electricity Garbage Dumps” in your country?
The World is covered with Garbage Dumps seeping Methane.
We need to capture it all and put it to work!
IN THIS POST
- The World is covered with Garbage Dumps seeping Methane.
- What is Landfill Gas (LFG)
- The super emitters
- Here, You will find Garbage Dump/Landfill Gas projects already running
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- France
- Iceland
- Jordan
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Philippines
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Thailand
- Turkey
- UK
- USA, Graham, Washington
- Zambia – A ReCap! and……
Landfill Gas projects
The World is covered with Garbage Dumps seeping Methane.
Visualizing the Global Landfill Crisis
Wherever there are people there are Garbage Dumps.
By capturing and using the Methane in all the world’s Garbage Dumps/Landfills, we can cut at least 15% of the GHG’s in our air.
Climate Trace suggests that the “Waste Worldwide” has at least 86.2 M TONNES of CH4 (Methane) and they have not finished tracing it!
??Is your Garbage Dump Capturing the Methane and putting it to good use?
??OR is the Methane in your Garbage Dump seeping into the atmosphere?
Let’s capture the Methane and make cleaner renewable Energy with it!
What is Landfill Gas (LFG)
The information may not be exact, but it sure gets the point across!
Landfill Gas projects
You can find these projects all over the world already!
BUT not enough!
Not enough to cut all the Garbage Dump/Landfill Gas still seeping into the air!
And some countries are worse than others…..
The super emitters
Satellite data analysed by the company Kayrros has identified 1,005 super-emitter events in 2022, of which 559 were from oil and gas fields, 105 from coalmines, and 340 from waste sites, such as landfills.
Landfill Gas projects
Here, You will find some of the Garbage Dump/Landfill Gas projects already running around the world. And some of them were started a long time ago!
Argentina
Australia
Factsheet: Landfill gas projects
Apr 30, 2019 — This Landfill, seems to have been constructed correctly,
BUT where does the Landfill Gas to Energy come in?????
Council awards tender for gas utilisation project
January, 2020 – …“Through this project we’ll be mitigating against methane emissions from landfill, whilst reducing the reliance on fossil fuels in powering Wetalla, which is one of the Council’s highest energy users.
Belgium
Feb 10, 2014 – Hooge Maey extracts landfill gas from its landfill. Four biogas engines turn it into green energy under the form of electricity.
Brazil
Dec 22, 2016 – The plant is located in Caieiras, São Paulo. 21 modules, 8,000 tons of waste treated a day, and an installed capacity of 29.5MW to supply electricity to a city of 300,000 inhabitants.
France
How to clean Landfill Gas to be used in an electricity generator……
Nov 29, 2017 – Wagabox 1 was set up at a Coved landfill site in France in February 14, 2017. It upgrades landfill gas into renewable natural gas compliant with distribution grid requirements. Today, Nicolas Paget, Waga Energy CTO and cofounder, measures biogas/landfill gas composition at three different steps of the upgrading process.
Landfill Gas projects
Iceland
Jordan
Jun 26, 2019 – The Landfill Gas is combusted in turbines to produce Electricity
New Zealand
Landfill gas capture deal saving money and the planet
Sep 4, 2017 – City of Napier, New Zealand
Norway
May 19, 2014 – Yggeset – power production of landfill gas- english subtitle version.
Philippines
Apr 23, 2013 – The Philippines is using an unlikely source to generate electricity. It’s turning rubbish into clean energy – and the move’s proving to be popular.
Landfill Gas projects
South Africa
Jan 10, 2011 – In Durban, South Africa the largest managed landfill on the continent powers 6,000 homes with clean renewable electricity and helps stop Global Warming too, (Oh and it also grows food, takes out the trash, but doesn’t do windows)
Generating Electricity from Landfill Gas in Durban 2015
South Korea
South Korea has a number of garganuan Landfills. One considered one of the largest in the world and is beingh turned into a “Dream Park” on top of the Sudokwon landfill that like the one below generates Electricity.
Sep 9, 2017 -The landfill generates renewable energy from the gas emitted by the decomposing waste. Some of the electricity is used by households,… and some of it is sold,… bringing in around 31 million U.S. dollars per year. The biogas is also used to fuel some 2-hundred public buses and cleaning vehicles.
Thailand
Thailand has had Landfill Gas to Energy projects for at least 7+ years. Another kind of system is also being developed that reduces the size of the MSW used to make biogas. Further R&D toward using Waste to make fuel.
Apr 6, 2022 – Dr. Kong from Papop.com takes you to visit the first full scale and largest biogas power plant using mostly organic shredded waste from municipal solid waste (OFMSW) in Rayong Province of Thailand as of 2019.
Turkey
There are English subtitles here………
Landfill Gas projects
UK
According to the Our World in Data, the UK has reached, per person, 1850 levels of CO2 emmisions. And for Methane much, much lower than 1850.
United Kingdom methane memorandum
3.2.2 Landfill methane capture and renewable electricity generation
November 2022/…The Renewables Obligation scheme for the encouragement of renewable energy was introduced in April 2002 and applied to the generation of electricity by landfill gas. This was designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the UK. Landfill gas is collected and used to power turbines which generate power for the grid, generating 3,500 GW/hour in 2020.
One of the world’s biggest problems, right now, is that the electricity grids world wide are not set up to take in and use all the renewable electricity that is being made. This company has a – temporary – solution to this problem.
Sep 23, 2020 – Flexible energy generation specialist Ylem Energy Ltd, has installed the UK’s very first 1MW battery energy storage system (BESS) alongside an existing landfill-gas generator to enable the site to participate in the National Grid’s Balancing Mechanism. Located in York, the 1MW (1.2MWh) battery is charged by the existing on-site generation system and allows the power stored to be readily available at short notice to meet the demands of the network as required. Rated at 1MW, the system can store and supply some 1.2 MWh of power – which would be the equivalent energy required to power around 2,400 average homes for one hour.
Landfill Gas projects
USA, Graham, Washington
Feb 11, 2014 – PSE and its Green Power program is working with the company BioFuels and a Pierce County landfill to create electricity from methane. Trash is now powering homes.
Zambia – A ReCap! and……
May 19, 2020 – In this episode, we share information on the generation and release of methane which is a by-product of landfilling municipal solid wastes. Most of the global municipal solid waste is dumped in non-regulated landfills and the generated methane is simply emitted to the atmosphere.
Here we have a discussion re-cap from Zambia of what all the videos in this post have been talking about:
“We at EnvironCompass believe that a lot more can be done to capture and utilize this significant energy resource.”
Zambia is listening too.
Apr 21, 2021 – The Chunga dump site, the final destination for garbage in Lusaka is an eyesore, owing to poor management of solid waste in the capital city. But change is on its way with the signing of a 2.76-million dollar grant aid between Zambia and Japan which will see the the establishment of the Lusaka Integrated Solid Waste Management Company. [They plan to capture and use the Landfill Gas!]
Landfill Gas projects
Does your community need
to capture and use this source of Methane?
Wherever there a people there is Landfill Gas.
Other posts on the subject of WASTE to Energy
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CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
#3 Municipal Solid Waste – MSW To BioFuel? Yes!
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? Environment
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? People-Civic
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? – Governance
The “Relief” Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuel! …Now!
ALL Islands: Just Go Zero – NOW! – Like Tilos
We CAN Deal With The #1 Mistake: Fossil Fuel – Today
Look To Garbage Dump Sites For The Energy We Need! Sure Fire!
Cleaner Energy Investments! Time To Invest In Your Landfill!
Landfill Gas Projects Worldwide – – – Clean Up The Air, Now!
CH4 Investments Urgent! Today! Landfill Gas (LFG)
Fossil Fuel Is Ancient Waste. But, There’s Plenty Of Waste Now!
Other approaches to waste to energy in these posts
Useful Green WASTE Business Ideas That Scale To Any Size
Harvesting Waste Ideas. Waste Rushes? NOW!
Climate Retrofits On Land Or At Sea
Shipping’s Carbon Footprint And Your Small Business >> Your Vote
Industrial Zone – Closed-Loop Networking
Cellulosic Ethanol – One Of Many DSM Sustainability Projects
We Need To USE THE CO2! …..For Industry – Big Market!
what needs to be cleaned
Too Much Methane !
The Greenhouse Gases List …..A Re-Review
cleaning up the mess
Can We, Are We Pulling In The Excess CO₂ ?
Fuel From Air? – Capture CO₂
Carbon Dioxide – Who Else Has Ideas To Pull It DOWN And OUT?
Urban Mining for clean energy
Urban Mining ! – More Important Than Ever
Critical Minerals & Rare Elements! ….. COLOSSAL WASTE RUSH
What a great issue. It needs to be sent to every county in the US to show them what needs to be done to stop the climate crisis.