Waste Management Open Renewable Natural Gas Facility

Waste Management has announced the opening of a renewable natural gas facility creating pipeline-ready natural gas from the landfill gas produced at its Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Illinois.

In early December, the processed renewable natural gas will be injected into the Ameren Illinois pipeline for withdrawal at other locations, including some Waste Management facilities.

The natural gas is used to heat homes or fuel truck fleets and other equipment that run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

The Milam Renewable Natural Gas Facility is designed to process approximately 3,500 standard cubic feet per minute of incoming landfill gas.

Putting that number into perspective, this is as much gas as it takes to fuel about 200 Waste Management CNG collection trucks each day, and represents more than 5 percent of the natural gas that is used in Waste Management’s entire CNG fleet per day.

Waste Management of Illinois currently has more than 100 CNG trucks in its fleet displacing about one million gallons per year of diesel fuel.

Category: General Update, Green