A 50-foot Christmas tree decorated with around 500 bulbs is gracing the top of the hill at the closed landfill in Maghtab.
The tree, put up by WasteServ Malta Ltd, is powered by a modified landfill gas generator and is supplied with gas generated from waste in the Ta’ Zwejra Engineered Landfill.
The gas is being collected in large gas cylinders and scrubbed onsite to have the contaminants removed. Afterwards, the clean gas is used to power the modified electrical generator, and the electrical energy produced provides energy to the Christmas tree.
The aim of the Christmas tree was to symbolically show the public that energy can be generated from waste.
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