Black Hawk County will soon be turning methane from its landfill into fuel for vehicles. Black Hawk County Solid Waste Management Administrator John Foster says that carbon reduction has been at the forefront of his team’s mind for a long time, and the public-private partnership provided the answer.

The landfill is the 4th-largest in Iowa and will be only the second in the state to recycle its methane into this type of fuel.

Foster expects that the project will be ready to go by November, and the sale of the recycled gas could yield 70-thousand dollars in revenue in its first year.