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Bavarian Landfill has helped the environment as follows:

How do Landfill Gas Energy Projects Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Landfill gas recovery projects provide a highly effective means of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, whether the landfill gas is combusted by flare, electricity generation equipment, or other end use system. By using the otherwise wasted methane contained in the collected landfill gas to generate electricity or directly as a fuel, fossil fuels such as oil and coal are displaced. This displacement of fossil fuels is an environmental benefit, the magnitude of which would depend on the actual amount of electricity generated or landfill gas used.

For example, if a 3 MW landfill gas electricity project starts up at a landfill with previously uncontrolled landfill gas, the project would have a direct methane reduction of approximately 6,000 tons per year (125,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2E) per year) and a fossil fuel displacement of approximately 700 tons of methane per year (15,000 tons of CO2E per year). The combined emissions reduction of 6,700 tons of methane per year (140,000 tons of CO2E per year) would be equivalent to any of the following annual environmental benefits for 2003:

• Removing emissions equivalent to 28,000 cars
• Planting 38,000 acres of forest
• Offsetting the use of 630 railroad cars of coal
• Preventing the use of 300,000 barrels of oil

Source: EPA Landfill Gas Methane Outreach Program

Combined with two other landfills in Kentucky through a partnership with East Kentucky Power, our environmental projects have been estimated by EPA equivalents to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 466,000 tons per year. That's like taking 93,000 cars off the road or planting 127,000 acres of forest.

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