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The Coffee County landfill is installing a new gas collection system that will cost more than a million dollars.
Since the system will earn the county carbon credits, the money won’t be coming out of the county’s residents’ pockets.
Your household garbage ultimately ends up at a landfill where it decomposes, giving off methane gas.
“In most cases this methane gas is released to the atmosphere and it is considered a greenhouse gas,” says County Engineer Randy Tindall.
Once a landfill emits too much methane, they’re required to install a destruction system.
Twenty-eight well heads around the landfill pull the gas out of the decomposing trash.
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