Option 4 — Landfill Gas Recovery (LFG)

Which wood disposal option is best for your utility?

Our expert team will help you identify a more environmentally friendly disposal option that is also cost efficient.

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Option 4 — Landfill Gas Recovery (LFG)

If you are already doing landfill and other possible disposal solutions are either inaccessible or too costly, LFG is a good option. This method relies on capturing methane gas from existing landfills to help generate electricity and simultaneously reduce GHG emissions. The methane gas serves as an energy source to power turbines and, in turn, the turbines generate electricity for the grid. As biodegradable waste, wood poles and other untreated wood material produce methane during the degradation process.

DISPOSAL OPTION COMPARISON CHART

Landfill Gas Recovery (LFG): Quick Breakdown

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Customer CASE STUDY:

Incineration (Waste-to-Energy)

DISCOVER
PLATTSBURGH
New York

Plattsburgh was looking for a more effective, environmentally friendly waste removal program. Learn how we helped the city convert their stockpiling old poles---that had collected for several years---into energy through incineration.

 

Customer CASE STUDY:

BIOMASS FUEL

PEPCO
An Exelon® Company

Koppers Recovery has established an effective, ongoing recovery solution for Pepco in which we pick up used utility poles for biomass incineration. Having a regular program in place with Koppers Recovery means they have a more efficient, cost-effective solution.

Customer CASE STUDY:

RECYCLING WOOD WASTE

LAMBERTS
Cable Splicing Company,
LLC

Like many contractors that provide services to utilities, Lambert is a company that had been stockpiling wood waste, in this case at three different North Carolina locations. Koppers Recovery successfully removed all wood waste for subsequent processing through a recycling program.

 

Customer CASE STUDY:

Waste-to-Energy

NATIONAL GRID
New Poles + Disposal = Cost
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National Grid has been a new pole customer of Koppers Utility and Industrial Products for several years. We recently implemented a turnkey program for them that consisted of delivery of new poles and backhauling used poles for waste to energy incineration.