Monday, February 1, 2010

First Municipal Landfill Gas Project in Africa Launched (Durban)

The Times Live article tells how a landfill gas plant which captures harmful methane gas from the Bisasar Road landfill site (Durban) has been recently launched by the eThekwini Municipality. It is said to produce eight megawatts of electricity and is expected to be paid off in 4 years and it goes on to say that "The city hoped to extract electricity from the site for about 15 years after the dumping of waste stopped."
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