Republic Services and Clean Energy Undertake Landfill Gas Recovery

Republic Services Inc. (NYSE:RSG) announced that it has made an agreement with a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ:CLNE) under which the two companies will build a high-BTU plant to process landfill gas from the North Shelby Landfill.

As quoted in the press release:

The gas may be compressed and distributed for a variety of different uses, including vehicle fuel and as renewable power or other industrial use customers.

During the first year of operation, the plant is anticipated to produce approximately 4 million diesel gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas fuel annually. If the landfill gas is used to fuel trucks, it could fuel about 260 trucks for a year. Production is expected to steadily increase to more than 5.7 million diesel gallon equivalents annually during the first 10 years of operations. Production is expected to begin in late 2013.

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