Green Options » willows http://greenoptions.com/tag/willows Posts tagged 'willows' Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Landfills to Fertilize Biofuel Crop With Trash-Juices http://gas2.org/2008/09/30/landfills-to-fertilize-biofuel-crop-with-trash-juices/ http://gas2.org/2008/09/30/landfills-to-fertilize-biofuel-crop-with-trash-juices/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:09 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://gas2.org/2008/09/30/landfills-to-fertilize-biofuel-crop-with-trash-juices/ Two British landfills could soon use their trash’s syrupy excretions to irrigate and fertilize on-site biomass crops.

A developer, Waste Recycling Group, hopes to construct two 18-foot-deep lagoons near landfills to produce fertilizer from the leachate that oozes from the trash piles. The substance will be pumped from the dump into the lagoons where bacteria will eat away at the contaminants. The developer then hopes to use the fertilizer to grow willow coppices at the landfill for use as biofuel.

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