Environmental Benefits of Altamont Landfill LNG

[caltrain2]

if only the trucks that actually collect SF were powered by LNG.

[smsfdiver]

Great stuff. To really close the loop, let's power the trucks in SF that pick up the trash that starts this cycle.

[izapurevideo]

I can appreciate WM's efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and find ways to reuse garbage. I believe there is no single answer to solving our energy problems and reducing landfill waste. WM seems to understand this and has found clever and advanced ways to recycle, reuse, reduce, compost, and now re-power. Right on and good job.

[AdamMrZ]

The ad in the SF Chron led me to this video. Surprised people don't talk more about this kind of technology! Pretty incredible! WM seems pretty ahead of the times and on the right track...

[myoungjsasf]

This never gets old to me. What a great idea, and bravo for making something out of waste. San Francisco should be proud that they work with a company (Waste Management) that is pioneering this technology. Why Recology would want to take their trash to an old landfill in Yuba is beyond me.

[2821059]

The obvious is that this staged video attacking SF’s Department of Environment, with inaccuracies, is not below the moral standards of Waste Management. It is an attack to confuse and distract form the facts. There is no other explanation for this video to have been made. The reports are now public, read them! WM lost on both environmental and economic evaluations. Capturing landfill gas AND creating fewer Greenhouse gasses overall is what the local winning bid documented.

[wastewise1]

Wrong again, 2821059. These people are speaking from the heart – unpaid, unscripted – stopped randomly in SF on 8.17.10. Too bad the truck in the video isn’t collecting SF’s garbage. Instead, Recology controls SF’s garbage collection through a 1929 legislated “monopoly” -- leaving ratepayers without choices. Now Recology proposes to haul SF’s garbage 130 miles one-way to its own landfill, leaving ratepayers to foot the bill. WM isn’t hiding behind a curtain. Can Recology say the same?

[2821059]

The story line is like the Wizard of OZ. They don’t show their Yellow Brick Road, but the man behind the curtain is Waste Management, which owns more landfills then anyone in the world. The truck in the video does not collect garbage in SF. It was sent to SF, with professional video crew, scripted dialog and paid cast, to attack SF’s Dept of Environment for a contract WM lost on both environmental and economic grounds. Don‘t feel good about making garbage, truck fuel is not the answer!

[danaconstance]

@2821059 Wow, can you be more obvious with your pro-Recology agenda rather than a pro-environment one?

[ja5225]

This is absolutely brilliant! 2821059 i don't know how you think this is an aggressive video that attacks various organizations. To me it is an incredibly progressive idea. Finally people aren't just talking about being renewable and using green fuel. They are actually doing it!! This is something to celebrate, not scorn.

[2821059]

This infomercial trys to make people feel good about garbage and Altamont Landfill. It also attacks SF’s Dept. of Environment, which selected SF based Recology’s landfill plan as both environmentally and economically superior to the Altamont plan. Zero Waste is San Francisco goal. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and especially Compost, to keep all greenhouse gas producing (read fuel producing) food and plant material out of landfills! Don‘t feel good about garbage. Feel good about not making any!

[pinqifestiva]

wow all cars should be fueled with fuel gabaage..

that's amazing! thumbs up altamont!

[78josemartinez]

Very smart and green!!!

[myoungjsasf]

Not sure where this video says anything about putting organics in a landfill. What I get is there is gas there that has been there for decades and this is a way to capture it and put it to good use. Great idea!

[2821059]

Sleazy hit piece! San Franciscan's want to separate and capture their recyclables and compostables for a higher environmentally beneficial use. Putting organic material in any landfill for the purpose of producing truck fuel is a crime against the environment (see Sierra Club's Lanfill Gas Report). Waste Management's justification for wasting organic material in their lanfills, is so that they can fuel the trucks that waste organic materials! Give me a break!

[wastewise1]

@2821059 Thanks for your feedback. I'm with Waste Management and we're proud of this achievement at the Altamont Landfill. We’re “closing the loop” on San Francisco’s trash – returning it as clean fuel to power our garbage trucks – and SF’s, too, if they want. Until Zero Waste is achieved - not just diversion - every item with organic content will contribute to landfill gas. Creating a domestic, clean fuel source from landfill waste sure beats the carbon footprint of foreign fossil fuels.

[MRGTMAN123]

Nice!!!