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Article: Landfill gas plan powers future free of pollution
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- October 24, 2002
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A national plan to recover and make use of urban landfill gas is
being implemented as the fight against the causes of the global
warming gathers pace.
There are nearly 1,000 landfill sites in China's big and medium-
sized cities, according to Luo Gaolai, vice-director of the office
for foreign economic and trade co-operation under the State
Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
About 90 per cent of the waste in landfill sites is simply piled
up and this causes serious pollution to soil and underground water
supplies.
In addition, landfill gas is mainly composed of methane, one of
the major types of gas that cause global warming.
Experts predict that annual waste output in China ...