I hate to see waste energy classified as renewable, because it creates an economic pressure to maintain the status quo in regards to our attitudes about consumption and waste.

Better than burning the trash to make energy.

Unfortunately we live in a disposable society and until drastic changes are made to that mindset we need things like this as a bandaid on the problems we have caused.

To say that this project promotes the continuation of landfills is like saying paying someone to pick up cigarette butts off the street promotes smoking. The gas is there already. They have to burn it already to convert it into CO2. It's simply a way to capture waste and pollution that would have been there anyway. This is a county run landfill it is not profitable

It's worse than burning trash because

1. Not all the methane is captured. Methane is 80x more potent than CO2 and incineration generates none.
2. Not incinerating leads to a larger landfill footprint with long term environmental effects. (I agree that consuming less is better but I don't see that happening).
3. Waste incineration generates significantly more power than this methane recapture.
4. It's easier to mine the trash for recyclable metals after trash has been burnt than if it's in the dump.
5. Western Europe and Singapore have used incineration with great success. Just because BRESCO failed to comply with EPA standards and the EPA and MD state failed to enforce proper filtration does not make the entire method invalid.

There are other games aside from co2 and methane and other issues with burning trash. Air quality around incinerators is markedly worse than away from them and things like nitrous oxide and ammonia are expelled in the smoke that comes from them.

I'm not saying eliminate incineration, nor am I an expert but solely looking at greenhouse gases ignores a lot of other issues with both scenarios.

I think it's great that they do it. I don't think it's great that they call it renewable and qualify them for the same tax credits that actual renewable energies get.