Trash gas proves powerful

Denton Record-Chronicle (Texas)
07:21 AM CST on Monday, December 22, 2008
By Lowell Brown / Staff Writer

New project starts converting city landfill emissions into energy

As Americans search for solutions to the nation’s energy problems — foreign oil dependence, shrinking fossil fuel supplies, global warming — Rick Koch hopes they don’t overlook their garbage cans.

Koch is a construction manager for Moline, Ill.-based Green Construction LLC, which specializes in projects that convert trash into energy. His latest endeavor is at the Denton landfill, where he’s worked since August to see that one man’s trash could be another man’s power supply.

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