The phrase “trash to treasure” is used for a variety of recycling efforts. But nowhere is it more applicable than in the case of the Missouri Center for Waste to Energy, the renewable energy project announced last week at State Fair Community College.
As reported by The Democrat’s Tonya Fennell, the project would “harvest landfill gas, called methane, and then convert it into electricity.” SFCC President Marsha Drennon touted it as a way to create both jobs and energy, and potentially allow the college to be powered entirely by alternative energy.
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