County using landfill to produce 'green' energy for state

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA, GA - When thousands of Georgia residents flick their light switches, their rooms are being brightened by rotting food scraps and moldering paper in a DeKalb County landfill.

DeKalb is the first county government in Georgia to harness the power of landfill gas.

Since October, two 20-cylinder engines have been creating electricity by burning methane emitted from a county-owned landfill.

They now consume about two-thirds of the methane emitted from the decomposing garbage....Read more.