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Landfills harbor solid waste , the third bombastic source of anthropogenic methane emissions .
The same day the 927 - acre Bordo Poniente Landfill in Mexico City , Mexico , stopped receiving solid thriftlessness , on December 19 , 2011 , Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard decided he would like a developer to conclude the landfill while also capturing its methane gun to produce energy .
“ Closing Mexico City ’s Bordo Poniente Landfill is one of the most important environmental action for the entire country . If it can be done here , it can be replicated elsewhere even if the solution is a complex one . When there is a very high level of complexity , but a rough-cut objective and a successful result , we build confidence in our power to take on other crucial objective lens , ” says Ebrard .
Working close with the Clinton Climate Initiative , Cities program and partner C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group , the task is hoped to be seen as an example to international waste material direction and nursery - emission step-down around .
grant toThe Boston Globe , construction barren will be recycled into building material . All operations will cease by the end of 2011 . Cemex SAB has agree to buy 3,000 wads of landfill waste daily to turn into vigour .
Mexico City government state that there will be a reducing of a minimum of 2 million stacks of carbon dioxide per year . Also in the works is a project to catch the methane gas produced at the dump and turn it into energy . Government Undersecretary Juan Jose Garcia Ochoa says that , three years ago , Mexico City recycle only 6 percent of its garbage . That numeral is now close to 60 percent . The landfill has accepted more than 76 million tons of trash .
Landfills entertain solid wasteland , the third orotund informant of anthropogenic methane emissions , which is 23 times greater than C02 . As much as one quarter of Mexico City ’s entire emissions could be reduced by capturing the landfill ’s methane . It could also generate enough power for about 35,000 homes in the urban center in the first few years . Employment and economical benefits will also number from create short- and long - terminus local jobs for contractor , service providers and construction labor , operations and criminal maintenance of the landfill gas capture system .
Paying for this project will be get-up-and-go sale and GHG simplification sales agreement and financial resourcefulness from the Mexican federal governance and individual investors .
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a internet of expectant and engaged urban center from around the humanity perpetrate to implementing meaningful and sustainable climate - related actions locally that will help address climate change globally . For more information , visit C40here .
The Clinton Climate Initiative addresses the major source of greenhouse flatulency emissions and the citizenry , insurance and practices that impact them . chit-chat CCIhere .
