Montauk Renewables announced plans for a renewable natural gas plant at American Environmental Landfill in Sand Springs, ...

A renewable natural gas plant ... landfills, which use networks of pipes extending down into their waste piles to draw the gas out of the ground. Landfill gas is composed of about 50% methane ...

and the plant in Taranto has been reliably producing biomethane since its commissioning in August 2024. ‘The methane recovery from the landfill gas is a very good value of over 95 percent ...

To learn more about methane released from landfills, the researchers chartered planes and flew as low as possible over 217 landfills in 17 states, using air-quality measuring devices.