"Clean Fuels From Landfill Gas" given governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award.WHITTIER, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1995--Changing lead into gold has long been a dream of mankind. The alchemists An alchemist was a person versed in the art of alchemy, an ancient branch of natural philosophy that eventually evolved into chemistry and pharmacology. Alchemy flourished in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. of old would also be jealous of a similar dream, converting waste into clean fuel, with both economic and environmental benefits. The dream became reality when the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County started up the world's first full-scale facility producing a high-quality, compressed natural gas Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is a substitute for gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel. It is considered to be an environmentally "clean" alternative to those fuels. It is made by compressing natural gas (which is mainly composed by methane (CH4 (CNG CNG Compressed Natural Gas CNG Calling (Tone) CNG Comfort Noise Generation CNG Cryptography Next Generation (Microsoft Windows Vista) CNG Centre National de Génotypage ) derived exclusively from landfill gas. The Sanitation Districts' "dream" was recognized Thursday by both the California Environmental Protection Agency The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) was created in 1991 by Governor Pete Wilson, through an executive order.[1] The agency combined six board, departments, and offices into one cabinet-level office:[2] Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that when the districts' Clean Fuel Program was awarded the 1994 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in the category of Innovation. The presentation took place at the California Museum of Science and Industry Museum of Science and Industry can refer to:
"The goal of the Clean Fuels Program is to improve air quality by reducing both the emissions from landfill gas flares and through the use of clean-burning CNG in landfill equipment instead of fossil fuels," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Charles W. Carry, chief engineer and general manager of the Sanitation Districts. The program, at the districts' Puente Hills Puente Hills is a chain of hills in an unincorporated area in eastern Los Angeles County, California. It lies to the south of the San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona Freeway (California State Route 60), to the east of the San Gabriel River Freeway (Interstate 605), to the north of landfill, converts landfill gas into CNG to be used for landfill vehicles, off-road heavy equipment, carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. vans and as fuel for some trash trucks that use the landfill. Landfill gas results from the decomposition of trash and would otherwise be burned off. "The total emission reduction from using the CNG fuel is expected to be 10 tons per year of criteria pollutants," according to Carry. "The trash brought in today becomes fuel for the trucks tomorrow. That's a unique form of recycling." The CNG derived from landfill gas reduces air emissions in two ways. First, it reduces the emissions from vehicles using CNG instead of diesel or gasoline. Second, it avoids the flaring of excess landfill gas. Air quality benefits vary from vehicle to vehicle but range from 1/2 to 1/20 of the emissions coming from conventional fuels. The districts garnered two of only seven awards, as the agency was also a co-recipient, along with the Central Basin Municipal Water District, of an award in the Environmental and Economic Partnership category. This award was for the Century and Rio Hondo Water Reclamation Programs. The Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards are sponsored by both the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Governor's Office. The awards are designed to honor individuals, organizations or companies whose achievements are outstanding examples of the inexorable connection between successful resource conservation, environmental protection and economic progress. The Sanitation Districts are a confederation of independent special districts serving the water pollution control and solid waste management needs of about 5 million people in Los Angeles County. The districts' service area encompasses 78 cities and unincorporated territory within the county. The role of the districts is to construct, operate and maintain facilities to collect, treat and dispose of sewage and industrial wastes and to provide for disposal and management of solid wastes, including refuse transfer and resource recovery. CONTACT: Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Joe Haworth, 310/699-7411, ext. 2302 |
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