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  2. Landfill gas - Wikipedia

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    Decomposing waste in these landfills produces landfill gas, which is a mixture of about half methane and half carbon dioxide. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [18] [19]

  3. Methane emissions - Wikipedia

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    While the direct result of this is landfills reducing emission of non-methane compounds that form smog, the indirect result is reduction of methane emissions as well. In an attempt to absorb the methane that is already being produced from landfills, experiments in which nutrients were added to the soil to allow methanotrophs to thrive have been ...

  4. Landfill gas utilization - Wikipedia

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    In anaerobic conditions, as is typical of landfills, methane and CO 2 are produced in a ratio of 60:40. Methane (CH 4) is the important component of landfill gas as it has a calorific value of 33.95 MJ/Nm^3 which gives rise to energy generation benefits. [5] The amount of methane that is produced varies significantly based on composition of the ...

  5. America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of ...

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    The Environmental Protection Agency considers landfills to be the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the country, accounting for roughly 14% of these emissions in 2022 and ...

  6. Explosive levels of methane have been detected near a ... - AOL

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    Across California, aging landfills have presented communities with myriad problems, as these sites have struggled to control flammable methane emissions and toxic air pollution. Berkeley Landfill ...

  7. Satellite data find landfills are methane 'super emitters' - AOL

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    Landfills are releasing large amounts of planet-warming methane gas into the atmosphere, a study suggests.

  8. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Decomposing waste in these landfills produces landfill gas, which is a mixture of about half methane and half carbon dioxide. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16]

  9. How Halloween pumpkins contribute to the climate crisis - AOL

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    Agriculture is the predominant source of methane emissions and methane has accounted for approximately 30 percent of global warming since pre-industrial times, according to the United Nations ...