Daily Telegraph
Tuesday 28/10/2008 Page: 9
A Sydney rubbish dump is powering 6000 houses by recycling potent greenhouse gases. The Eastern Creek Waste and Recycling Centre at Sydney's west, the biggest waste-to-energy project to come online this decade, was yesterday given a 20 per cent boost when a new engine was installed. Recycling industry leader WSN Environmental Solutions captures methane created during the breakdown of household waste in the landfill and burns it to make electricity.
The by-product is still carbon dioxide, but methane is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas so the process is beneficial in the fight against climate change. "This project prevents methane escaping into the atmosphere and generates renewable energy so it provides a twofold benefit," WSN Environmental Solutions CEO Ken Kanofski said yesterday.
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