Landfill Gas Recovery: an Important Alternative Energy Resource for Developing Countries

This paper describes the experience held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where a very simple biogas recovery and utilization system has been installed in an old landfill. Around 130 vehicules from the waste management company has been converted for biogas use, substituting either the diesel oil, gasoline and alcohol previously used by these cars and trucks

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Organic fertiliser produced from forest leaf litter

GORKHA: Four community forest user groups in Gorkha have begun producing organic fertiliser from leaf litter and other forest biomass that would otherwise go to waste. The initiative has been launched by the Ram Laxman Community Forest User Group and the Bagpani Community Forest User Group in Sahid Lakhan Rural Municipality-1, the Ludi Damgade Community []