As COP31 comes to Turkey, satellites reveal landfill methane problem

Korea Times News ·
Environment & Nature Climate Turkey

SEYMEN, Turkey — In the countryside west of Istanbul, trucks line up to empty mixed household waste from the city of 16 million people onto a vast landscape of decomposing rubbish, where landfill gas is captured to generate electricity at a nearby plant. But far above the seagulls circling the waste, satellites detect what the plant has failed to capture: methane escaping at a rate that ranks it…

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