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Seattle uses garbage to power city
Posted by admin2 on 26 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Methane
Seattle is using methane, produced from decomposing garbage, as an alternative energy source.
Seattle ships its trash — about 400,000 tons a year — by rail to a Waste Management-owned landfill in Arlington, Ore. As part of a contract reached last year, Waste Management agreed to begin turning the landfill’s methane into energy and sell it to Seattle.
City Council members, utility officials and Waste Management executives announced Thursday in a Sodo rail yard that the plant has begun making electricity, completing the circle of waste-to-energy that was envisioned when Seattle started sending its garbage to Oregon in 1991.
