By clicking on any of the photographs on this Tour, a full size view of it will be displayed in a new window . One of the landfill's three gas flaring stations is seen here in a setting of dramatic shadows and reflections as it sits in steely silence at dusk.
Landfill gas is a byproduct of decomposing garbage.
Set on acre each in the interior of Fresh Kills, the three flaring stations capture the enormous amount of methane gas that the landfill produces each day. Connected through a vast network of underground pipes that are buried throughout the landfill, the methane gas is pumped to each of three the main burning plants. Flaring stations have had a presence at Fresh Kills since 1998. This technology provided a measure relief to neighboring communities as soon as each station became operational. Today, GSF Energy, an operating division of Texas-based Ecogas, owns and operates the gas reclamation facility at Fresh Kills where methane gas is captured, processed, recycled and sold back to the community.