Article: First University in Nation to Use Landfill Gas as Primary Energy Source

To: ENERGY EDITORS

Contact: Kim Billings of the University of New Hampshire, +1-603- 862-1558, kim.billings@unh.edu

DURHAM, N.H., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of New Hampshire, in cooperation with Waste Management of New Hampshire, Inc., has launched EcoLine, a landfill gas project that will pipe enriched and purified gas from Waste Management's landfill in Rochester to the Durham campus, UNH President Mark Huddleston announced today. UNH is the first university in the nation to undertake a project of this magnitude.

The renewable, carbon-neutral landfill gas, from Waste Management's Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise (TREE) facility in Rochester, N.H., ...

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