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Our success story this week chronicles Waste Management's Altamont Landfill in Livermore,
California. In the late 1980s, it became a waste-to-wheels pioneer by using landfill
methane gas to power turbines to generate electricity—enough to run 8,000 area homes
and a liquefied natural gas plant.
That plant now provides renewable natural gas for some 300 refuse vehicles. An elaborate
network of wellheads captures the landfill gas emitted from the nearly 3,500 tons of
waste received every day.
It's an engineered system that we have a lot of checks and balances in place to make sure
that we're doing it in an environmentally friendly and sound way.
The East Bay Clean Cities coalition helped Waste Management secure funding to add a CNG
fueling station to their existing LNG station. Converting landfill gas into clean energy
shows that nothing goes to waste for the residents of northern California.