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City Dump Used to Operate Factory

The Interface Company in LaGrange, GA, discovered that a local City Dump, a place where they had originally acquired much of their recycled rubbery backing for their manufactured floor tiles, is also a giant source of a greenhouse gas, Methane.

This Methane bed was so voluminous that it was successfully harnessed in order to power the Interface Plant for 40 years.

The results were astounding. The city of LaGrange now receives a multimillion dollar revenue stream, the Interface Plant uses a cheaper source of fuel and the life is the landfill has been extended, since as the methane was harassed, the volume of the landfill went down.

Most importantly, LaGrange is now deflecting methane away from earth's atmosphere.

Somebody call Rumpke.

Read the complete article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22interf.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin

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  1. Blogger Emily | May 24, 2007 at 11:29 PM |  

    I thought Rumpke did have people come and pump methane.

  2. Blogger Emily | May 24, 2007 at 11:34 PM |  

    ...just checked and I was right, they do.

    from rumpke.com:

    "At Rumpke's Cincinnati landfill, the company works with Getty Synthetic Fuels to extract methane gas from the landfill. The gas is purified and used to heat approximately 20,000 homes in Colerain Township, Ohio."