In a bid to make the most of farm waste, a Canada-based company is getting its hands dirty. We mean, literally.
from the manure and from fossil fuels, which equals removing 2,900 cars from the road for a year.
"Wastes such as manure, sewage biosolids, and food scraps create two-thirds of all point source emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Stopping these methane emissions from waste must be a central tactic in curbing global warming,” said Andrew Benedek, Chairman and CEO of Anaergia. “This new bioenergy plant will not only help Japan reduce methane emissions from manure, it will also reduce the need for LNG to generate electricity.
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