Qnergy’s PowerGen5650 is a methane abatement product to capture and convert low methane content landfill biogas into electricity. (Submitted photo) Working in partnership with Maryland Environmental ...

High atop the mountain of garbage that's the Berkeley County landfill, an emerging network of pipes could turn trash into treasure. The 6-inch plastic pipes started going down through the muck last ...

Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria. In a new publication, microbiologists from Radboud University have demonstrated that it is ...

The Loess Hills Regional Sanitary Landfill is one of a handful of landfills in Iowa that converts landfill gas into renewable natural gas. (Photo courtesy of Bret Stephens/Loess Hills Landfill) When ...

Rather than applying cow manure onto fields, dairy farmers can use digesters to convert methane gas coming off lagoons and tanks for other uses, such as the production of energy. “So far, we haven’t ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The U.S.