Like wind and solar power, landfill gas is a natural resource that can be harnessed to produce clean energy. Pembroke Pines Waste Management’s landfill gas-to-energy program is a vital and important part of North America’s drive to develop alternative energy sources and promote environmental sustainability. In fact, the EPA has endorsed landfill gas as an environmentally wise alternative energy resource that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels like coal. This gas, which is created naturally through the decomposition of household waste in landfills, is a readily available, renewable energy source that can be collected and used directly as medium Btu gas for industrial use or sold to gas-to-energy plants to fuel engine or turbine driven generators of electricity. Landfill gas has lived up to its promise of being a reliable and economical form of energy.

Pembroke Pines waste is collected and taken to a nearby facility located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  The trash is later processed by a South-Broward facility called the Wheelabrator, which provides a dependable, environmentally safe disposal of municipal solid waste for Pembroke Pines and all of South Broward County, while generating clean, renewable electricity for sale to FPL.  This South Broward facility processes up to 2,250 tons per day of municipal solid waste and has an electric generating capacity of 66,000 kilowatts; the equivalent of supplying the electrical needs of 38,000 South Florida homes.

So, next time you drive by one of these hills that are rare in our flat South Florida Landscape, you’ll know that a waste-to-energy process is taking place somewhere inside. If you need more information about Pembroke Pines talk to the expert: Adrian Valdes, he has all the knowledge you need about Pembroke Pines homes.

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