CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A gas plant project at the Cefe Valenzuela Landfill is nearly complete.
Once finished in April, the project will help to harvest the natural gases produced by all of the trash at the landfill.
That cleaned up gas may even end up around town and in our homes.
There are already hundreds of projects like this operating around the country with 122 right here in Texas.
City solid waste director David Lehfeldt said the renewable energy aspect is where these landfill gas-to-energy projects shine.
"We're taking the gas that's renewable," Lehfeldt said. "It's coming out of the trash, it's not coming out of the ground and we're using that. It looks exactly like the gas they get out of the oil wells in fact, chemically it is exactly the same."
The aim is to turn the gas that is produced into a pipeline quality product.
Officials said the city stands to make a large profit off the project once complete, with estimates of around $145,000 to $300,000 a month.
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