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from waste to wealth with the positive spinoff of reducing the level of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere enviro serves landfill gas flaring project is one of the first of its kind in South Africa the toka landfill sites here in carting processes around 400,000 tons of waste per annum now landfill gas is a byproduct of a landfill site like this contains around 50 percent methane which is considered to be a much more harmful greenhouse gas than co2 a network of wells has been installed across the waste dump to extract the hazardous gas every one ton of methane gas extracted from the landfill site is worth 21 parts of carbon so by converting the methane into carbon through the flaring station reduces the impact of the methane what you see behind us are the fairing stations and we've got two of these flares on site clear corpse landfill gas project is one of 19 registered Clean Development Mechanism projects in South Africa under the Kyoto Protocol developed countries with carbon