(Source: Datamonitor)
Waste Management, a waste services company, and Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, have announced that their joint venture company has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California.
The company has said that the plant, which Linde built and operates, purifies and liquefies landfill gas that Waste Management collects from the natural decomposition of organic waste in the landfill.
The plant is designed to produce up to 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a day, enough to fuel 300 of Waste Management's 485 LNG waste and recycling collection vehicles in 20 California communities. Since the commissioning process began in September 2009, the plant has produced 200,000 gallons of LNG.
Duane Woods, senior vice president for Waste Management's Western Group, said: "The Altamont largest landfill gas-to-LNG facility enables us to recover and utilize a valuable source of clean energy in another practical way, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Conventional LNG is already a clean-burning and economically viable alternative fuel for our collection trucks."
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