Why landfill methane makes waste-to-energy urgent

Landfills create enough methane to be classed as super emitters. Methane is 84 times more potent as a climate-warming gas than CO₂, which makes every tonne of unrecyclable waste left in the ground a climate problem as well as a land problem.

Waste to energy is not a replacement for recycling. It is the option for what cannot be recycled, using the heat value of that waste to generate power instead of leaving it to decompose.

At TTI we put it simply: landfill elimination creates power generation. The energy created at a landfill site is transferred to the local grid.