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Landfills leak methane with impunity, new research shows (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In college I worked on a project studying this. You can run a generator off the methane but it requires filtering, which makes it less profitable, so most landfills and waste treatment plants just burn off the gas with a flare.