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Trash Into Treasure: South Korea Builds First Landfill-Powered Hydrogen Station

Landfills now have a use besides stinking up large areas of land. The South Korean government is working on a project to produce hydrogen from natural biogases (aka methane) produces in landfills. The facility, which is being ...READ»

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Tesco Uses Meat Power to Divert Waste From Landfills

British grocery chain Tesco has some good news: it has managed to divert 100% of its waste from landfills. But there's a catch: the chain is using expired meat to do it. Tesco is using over 5,000 tons of out-of-date meat to generate ...READ»

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Waste Expo

A hot topic at this meet-up of solid-waste execs will be the booming business of trash to cash. Some 55% of American waste still ends up in landfills, and operators in this $52 billion industry have long been required to collect ...READ»

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