A small step toward net-zero carbon emissions? Making power out of poop

A small step toward net-zero carbon emissions? Making power out of poop

Just by flushing their toilets, almost 2 million residents across Montgomery and Prince George’s counties may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to cleaner air in the national capital region.  The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s Piscataway Bioenergy Project serves those counties. And the facility in Accokeek turns “poop to power” by converting the methane gas from biosolids — the byproduct of wastewater treatment — into ren…