Energy sources recovered from discarded material, namely waste-to-energy plants that burn or digest municipal waste to make heat and power, and landfill gas, the methane-rich gas that microorganisms produce as waste decays in a landfill. A source belongs here when its cited article describes energy taken from waste. It excludes crops grown for fuel, and it is kept separate because these sources turn a disposal problem into a fuel.
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Waste-to-energy - Wikipedia
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Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) are processes designed to convert waste materials into usable forms of energy, typically electricity or heat, in waste-to-energy plants.
Landfill gas (Wikipedia)
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Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste.
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