How do landfill gas energy projects reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Landfill gas recovery projects provide a highly effective means of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, whether the landfill gas is combusted by flare, electricity generation equipment, or another end use system. By using the otherwise wasted methane contained in the collected landfill gas to generate electricity or directly as a fuel, fossil fuels such as oil and coal are displaced. This displacement of fossil fuels is an environmental benefit, the magnitude of which would depend on the actual amount of electricity generated or landfill gas used.
