working with the private sector providing feedstock and land for lease at attractive rates to turn palm fronds into animal feed and mixed plastics into fuel ... It ’ s exciting to look at how we can turn waste into resources instead of dumping it in a huge hole in the ground . Here in Phoenix we could fill our baseball stadium seven times with the waste we collect from residential customers . What are the resources we could take out of that seven stadiums worth of waste ? Whether that ’ s up-cycling furniture or using plastic bags to make decking — we need to be creative . Meanwhile , the trucks that pick up that waste travel the equivalent of going to the moon and back 14 times . People say ‘ it ’ s free to throw stuff away ’, but it ’ s certainly is not free . Imagine the fuel needed to travel to the moon 14 times in a garbage truck . One opportunity to address this fuel use is underway for our landfill gas , whereby the methane will be captured and converted into cleaner burning natural gas to fuel our garbage trucks . This will ensure cleaner air and avoids mining natural gas by replacing it with methane produced in our landfill .”
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