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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One very small tiny nice thing about this is that Columbus feeds the city methane pipes with some of its recovered methane from the landfill. So if a part of this used to generate power, it will be a landfill-to-electricity path.

There's an irony that Columbus also had a trash-burning-power-plant build in the 1980s that worked on and off for about 25 years, which was a completely different path to turn trash into electricity. It had the nickname of the "cash burning powerplant" because of how expensive turned out to be to operate.