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Jose Diaz
Mrs.DeBock
English 4
28 April 2016
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the methane released from the trash from underneath the landfill and then the methane is
converted into electricity, which gives additional electricity to the community. This type of
renewable energy is known as Biogas, which is a clean and renewable energy that is a
substitute to natural gas by generating electricity. The process is by collecting as much of the
methane as possible which is later combusted into a flame which will produce electricity, heat
and cleaner air for the community.
For the usable wood and yard waste, Mrs.Johnson showed me the machine that turns
unusable wood into compost which is used for organic soil amendment and conditioner. The
compost produced from the landfill will then be sold to consumers and companies nearby.
Landfills make plenty of revenue off of products from recycled materials. With the money made
off the products, it funds programs for public schools that teaches little kids about the harms of
pollution and how it negatively affects the community. These programs also teach adults around
the community about pollution and the negative effects.
Lastly, Mrs.Johnson talked to me about how landfill are beneficial to the environment as
well as how much money the community save on exporting waste. Mrs. Johnson also said that
landfills also benefit the animals like birds because they eat the food that we through away,
which makes the birds flourish in population. On the last moments of the tour, Mrs.Johnson
showed me the process of how they separate recyclables to non-recyclables from the bags of
trash they collected. Mrs.Johnson gave me so much information about how a landfill works and
the beneficial features on what the landfill is able to do to help the environment.