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‘Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says | Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas (www.nytimes.com)
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The study measured methane emissions at about 20 percent of about 1,200 large, operating landfills in the United States. It adds to a growing body of evidence that landfills are a significant driver of climate change, said Riley Duren, founder of the public-private partnership Carbon Mapper, who took part in the study.

“We’ve largely been in the dark, as a society, about actual emissions from landfills,” said Mr. Duren, a former NASA engineer and scientist. “This study pinpoints the gaps.”

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[–] Transcendant 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've always thought... Why can't we put a perspex dome or something like thick clingfilm over a landfill site, and tap the methane?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can cap a landfill and collect the methane, but there usually isn't enough for it to pay to pipe it anywhere. As such, tends to be flared on-site when something like that is installed.

[–] Transcendant 1 points 8 months ago

Makes sense, cheers for the info.