The Districts' solid waste management activities have traditionally centered around sanitary landfills as the primary means for solid waste disposal. The Districts were among the leaders in the landfill industry to install extensive networks of LFG collection systems on all of its sanitary landfills for controlling gas migration and eliminating LFG pollution or hazards. The collected landfill gas is either utilized as a valuable renewable energy source or safely disposed through thermal incineration in landfill gas flares. The majority of the collected landfill gas is utilized for electrical power generation in three steam power plants and one gas turbine facility.
Landfill gas is combustible and can be used as an energy source.
Effective management of methane gas collected at landfills. Revenue from the sale of energy and landfill gas 3. Substantial reductions in emissions by not burning gas by using flares 4. Substantial reductions in emissions that would otherwise be generated by traditional power plants. Landfill gas is fired in the plant's boilers producing superheated steam.