Bioreactor would provide energy for Columbia (Missouri)

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http://www.themaneater.com/news/2007/apr/24/bioreactor-would-provide-energy-columbia/

Columbia is one step closer to being the home of Missouri’s first bioreactor landfill thanks to Sen. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington. If the city houses a bioreactor, it would be only one of 14 in the U.S.

Engler proposed a bill that “permits yard waste to be deposited into solid waste disposal areas that have been approved by the Department of Natural Resources for use as bioreactors.”

The creation of a bioreactor in Columbia has been in the works since December 2005 when former City Manager Ray Beck made the initial proposal. The Columbia landfill, located in the northeastern part of the city, consists of three individual cells and accepts an average of 600 tons of trash per day. Construction on the fourth cell, which is the only bioreactor cell, is underway and has a projected opening date of August 28.

A bioreactor landfill differs in one fundamental way from traditional landfills.

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