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Table 9 The changes in landfill gas management as modelled in BC-HWPv1

From: Forest carbon in North America: annual storage and emissions from British Columbia’s harvest, 1965–2065

Time period

Methane produced at landfills with capture technology (%)

Sources for the technology at landfills

Capture efficiency (%) [[16]] [[55]]

Net reduction in CH4 due to landfill gas management (%)

2015 -2115

98

Regression

87

85

2011-2014

82

Regression

87

71

2008-2010

65

[16]

87

57

2003-2007

59

[56]

75

44

2000-2002

49

[55]

75

37

1995-1999

17

[54]

75

13

1990-1994

5

Regression

75

4

1965-1989

0

 

0

0