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I'm sure that's the case for some of the landfills, but definitely not all of them.

In the US 70% of the methane from landfills is vented, rather than flared. That means that for some reason, either it's too expensive to do or something else is blocking this. And that's just the US.

You can also imagine that landfills in the developing world are better targets. Infrastructure is not as good there as it is in the US or in Europe.



The profit is too small.

Easy to solve with laws. Shouldn't be allowed anyway to just pick the good things from a gas field...


Yeah, let's use laws instead of something that makes monetary sense...?

It's not a gas field, it's a land fill.


Just because it makes monetary sense doesn't mean it makes ecological sense. Therefore a law




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