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Urban Decay
Boston looks to generate electricity from indoor composting |
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26 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:07 PM on 26 Mar 2008 The city of Boston is looking to build an urban, indoor composting facility. Most cities, if they compost at all, transport food and yard waste in gas-guzzling trucks to dumps outside the city limits, where energy and methane from decomposing biomass get lost to the atmosphere. The first-of-its-kind proposed Boston facility would generate electricity from rotting leaves and fruit, enough to ... |
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