Gold in garbage: Industries transform trash to energy

Jim Voss hopes his company will make a fortune out of garbage — specifically the methane gas produced when tons of trash decay in landfills across the nation.

That methane — 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — has to go somewhere: federal rules require large landfills to either burn it or pipe it away to be processed.

Voss and others are convinced there’s money to be made in the process by selling the stinky garbage gases to those hunting a steady, consistently priced source of energy.

By Emery P. Dalesio, The Associated Press

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