DeKalb County, in conjunction with Energy Systems Group and the Clean Cities Atlanta Petroleum Reduction Program, recently opened a new renewable energy facility in Ellenwood, Georgia. The facility “will turn landfill gas into renewable fuel thereby reducing diesel and gasoline fuel consumption and related emissions in the metro Atlanta area,” said CEO Burrell Ellis. The DeKalb County Sanitation Department is converting 70 vehicles to run on biomethane, which is cleaner and less expensive than diesel fuel.

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