America's biggest trash company is also America's biggest landfill owner and America's biggest developer of trash-togas renewable energy projects.rnNow Waste Management Inc. wants to help the owners of other landfills, both private and public, develop their own landfill gas projects.rn"As the largest operator of landfills, we understand how landfills operate and how best to leverage this valuable resources," said Paul Pabor, vice president of renewable energy for the company.rnWaste Management already has broken ground on a landfill gas-to-energy project at the government owned Madison County landfill near Syracuse, N.Y., as part of the company's new third-party business.rnWaste Management, itself, has a total of 112 energy projects at landfills, and said last year it wanted to develop a total of 60 new landfill gas-to-energy projects by 2012.rnSince that announcement, the company has started or completed more than a dozen projects, the company said.rnWaste Management accounts for about a fourth of all landfill gas to energy projects in the United States, where there are about 445 such projects in operation.
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