Eli5, Why do landfills merely burn off ex bytra gas into flames, why can’t they generate electricity or something with that gas?
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Some do, either to create electricity, or to run the garbage trucks on the off gas. The problem is that all that equipment to collect, store, refine that gas is pretty expensive. Some really big landfills will do it because they’re big enough for it to make sense, but for smaller landfills it isn’t cost effective.
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