Projects across U.S. turn landfill gas into energy

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 21:21 in Physics & Chemistry

More U.S. communities are turning trash into power. Nationwide, the number of landfill gas projects, which convert methane gas emitted from decomposing garbage into power, jumped from 399 in 2005 to 519 last year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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