Dive summary:

• Riverview, Mich., converting excess methane from its landfill into fuel for vehicles owned by the city.
• There is still so much methane being produced by the landfill that even after powering the city's fleet of automobiles the landfill will still be burning off quite a bit of gas, so future projects are in the works to eliminate that excess by way of selling it as fuel to nearby cities.
• All of the new vehicles will be converted to run on CNG, which will cost between $10,000 and $12,000 for each vehicle, and older vehicles will be phased out.

From the article:

Decaying trash at the city’s landfill produces so much methane the excess is burned off using flares.

That’s not to say all of it goes to waste — not by a longshot, since an on-site methane recovery operation captures much of it.

But the bottom line is that some of the methane is going up in smoke, so to speak. That will soon change as the city begins to convert it to compressed natural gas that eventually will power city-owned vehicles.

That’s right — cars and trucks using the byproduct of garbage as fuel. ...