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Methane gas is a by-product of landfilling municipal solid wastes (MSW). Most of the global
MSW is dumped in non-regulated landfills and the generated methane is emitted to the atmosphere.
Some of the modern regulated landfills attempt to capture and utilize landfill biogas, a renewable
energy source, to generate electricity or heat. As of 2001, there were about one thousand landfills
collecting landfill biogas worldwide. The landfills that capture biogas in the US collect about 2.6
million tonnes of methane annually, 70% of which is used to generate heat and/or electricity. The
landfill gas situation in the US was used to estimate the potential for additional collection and
utilization of landfill gas in the US and worldwide. Theoretical and experimental studies indicate that
complete anaerobic biodegradation of MSW generates about 200 Nm3 of methane per dry tonne of
contained biomass. However, the reported rate of generation of methane in industrial anaerobic
digestion reactors ranges from 40 to 80Nm3 per tonne of organic wastes. Several US landfills report
capturing as much as 100 Nm3 of methane per ton of MSW landfilled in a given year. These findings
led to a conservative estimate of methane generation of about 50Nm3 of methane per ton of MSW
landfilled. Therefore, for the estimated global landfilling of 1.5 billion tones annually, the
corresponding rate of methane generation at landfills is 75 billion Nm3. Less than 10% of this
potential is captured and utilized at this time.
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