Dallas Gets Something Right

Naturally it has nothing to do with the idiocy that is the city council. Instead, it has everything to do with our fantastic rate of consumption.The McCommas landfill in southern Dallas is being turned into the first biogenerative landfill in Texas. Garbage will be pumped into channels which will be filled with water and seeded with microorganisms that feast on organic material and release methane as waste, which will be harnessed and used to produce electricity. In addition to recovering this energy, the process will dispose of several feet of trash each year and provide Dallas with tens of thousands of dollars in income every month. Awesome.

G.J. MCCARTHY/DMN

A large bulldozer works to pack trash tightly at the McCommas Bluff landfill in south Dallas.