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Article: Linde and Waste Management Commission World's Largest Landfill to Liquefied Natural Gas Facility.
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- Global Warming Focus
- Article date:
- November 16, 2009
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Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM), North America's largest waste services company, and Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, a leading global gases and engineering company, announced that their joint venture company has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California. The facility is the world's largest landfill gas (LFG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.
The plant, which Linde built and operates, purifies and liquefies landfill gas that Waste Management collects from the natural decomposition of organic waste in the landfill. The plant is designed to produce up to 13,000 gallons ...