Vision RNG breaks ground at Meridian Waste site

Vision RNG LLC, a full-service developer of landfill gas to sustainable renewable natural gas based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, has begun construction of a renewable natural gas (RNG) project located on the Meridian Waste Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Missouri. The company says construction will be completed early 2023.  

According to a news release from Vision RNG, the project will use 1,500 cubic feet per minute of landfill gas (LFG). The project will produce 375,000 million British thermal units (MMBtu) of RNG annually. The RNG will be injected into a nearby interstate natural gas pipeline and used by various customers across the U.S. for transportation fuel and other sustainability purposes.   

Vision RNG says RNG production has numerous environmental and economic benefits, including being a carbon-neutral energy solution, lowering methane emissions, reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels and utilizing the current natural gas infrastructure.  

"At Meridian Waste, our environmental services team has always considered our landfills to be highly engineered structures that provide a vital resource to our local communities,” says Walter Hall, Meridian Waste’s CEO. “We view the conversion of our landfill gas to clean energy to be an effective means of recycling and reusing this valuable resource. And in our business, wasting energy is simply a waste of time."