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Wide of garbage dump2. Mid of garbage trucks coming in3. Wide of trucks dumping garbage4. Wide of workers sorting garbage5. General shot of village street6. Mid of children playing7. Wide of women with laundered clothes8. Mid of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of garbage dump\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of garbage trucks coming in\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of trucks dumping garbage\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of workers sorting garbage\u003cbr/\u003e5. General shot of village street\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of children playing\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of women with laundered clothes\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of backhoes at the dumpsite\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of garbage dump, shift focus to gas valve\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of gas valves and pipes\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of pipes going to larger pipes\u003cbr/\u003e12. Top shot of power plant\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pan of gas pipes to plant\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of power plant\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tight of flare\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of engineer Arthur Cruz working on power plant generator\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Cruz walking away from generator\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Arthur Cruz, PANGEA Field Engineer\u003cbr/\u003e\"The methane is extracted from the garbage mound, from there it is divided, with some percentage powering the generator and the rest going to the flare to be burned. Burning the methane is one way of avoiding methane escaping to the atmosphere because once the methane is burned, only oxygen is released and that is already safe (for the environment).\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of power plant\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of pipe with the dumpsite in the background\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English/Tagalog) Jameel Jaymalin, Head of dumpsite operations\u003cbr/\u003e\"Methane is naturally produced with the anaerobic decomposition of garbage, which is 21 times more toxic than carbon dioxide, so it is very powerful. If that is not trapped it just goes up in the air through spontaneous combustion, smoke is produced and that is very unhealthy for people here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of plant\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English/Tagalog) Jameel Jaymalin, Head of dumpsite operations\u003cbr/\u003e\"The electricity we are using here right now is from the methane gas. The women outside, at the behest of the city mayor, have worked out a plan wherein they take advantage of the excess electricity by plugging in their flat irons for pressing clothes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid of ladies walking carrying their laundered clothes, flat iron and ironing boards\u003cbr/\u003e25. Tight of clothes and ironing paraphernalia\u003cbr/\u003e26. Pan of ladies walking in to community centre\u003cbr/\u003e27. Sign in Tagalog reading, \"Community Ironing Centre, Free Electricity from Methane Gas\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of ladies ironing clothes\u003cbr/\u003e29. Tight of flat irons\u003cbr/\u003e30. Sign reading, \"Powered by Methane Gas\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. Establishing shot of Teresita Mabignay\u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Teresita Mabignay, Resident\u003cbr/\u003e\"We really save a lot when we do our ironing here, we save a lot on electricity. Before, I used to pay 1,500-pesos (US$32), now I only pay around P700 (US$15). My bill has been reduced a lot because I used to iron clothes everyday, like the children's school uniform, but now I just schedule my trip here to do all my ironing at once.\"\u003cbr/\u003e33. Establishing shot of Jen Tolentino\u003cbr/\u003e34. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Jen Tolentino, Resident\u003cbr/\u003e\"I do all my ironing here. What I do is round up my women friends to come up here so that it would not be boring. Some who have totally done away with ironing their clothes because of the cost are now coming here after I told them all that here it is for free.\"\u003cbr/\u003e35. Mid of children at play in the centre\u003cbr/\u003e36. Mid of more ladies ironing clothes\u003cbr/\u003e37. Tight of pants being ironed\u003cbr/\u003e38. Ladies getting out of service vehicle\u003cbr/\u003e39. Various of ladies walking home with their freshly ironed clothes\u003cbr/\u003e40. Wide of street with streetlamps\u003cbr/\u003e41. Tight of sign, shift focus to streetlamps\u003cbr/\u003eIroning is not only hard work, it can be expensive too . \u003cbr/\u003eSo what better way than to syphon off energy from a rubbish dump to drastically cut electricity bills?\u003cbr/\u003eRubbish - and mountains of it. \u003cbr/\u003eResidents of Payatas village in the Philippines live just a stone's throw away from the city dumpsite in the suburb of Quezon City, north of Manila.\u003cbr/\u003eMany of the villagers work at the site as local authority employees.\u003cbr/\u003eBut many more work informally in junkshops surrounding the site, making a living out of sorting through the rubbish to find anything useful.\u003cbr/\u003eMore recently, the residents got another benefit from the city's refuse.\u003cbr/\u003eThey now have access to free electricity thanks to the conversion of methane coming out of the garbage mound.\u003cbr/\u003ePrior to 2001, smoke, diseases, and one particularly bad accident dubbed a \"trash slide\" characterised life in and around the dumpsite.\u003cbr/\u003e(\"Trash slide\" refers to an incident in 2000 when garbage loosened by continuous rains slid off the side of the mountain of rubbish, burying more than 300 people).\u003cbr/\u003eWith the new city administration in 2001 came new management of the dumpsite.\u003cbr/\u003eThe first thing the head of the city's Payatas Operations Group, Jameel Jaymalin, noticed was the smoke. But he was able to see beyond this when he observed residents using the methane gas coming out of the dump for fuel.\u003cbr/\u003eThey did this by attaching makeshift pipes to their stoves for cooking.\u003cbr/\u003eThat idea led to a \"green\" revolution - the rubbish mound became a controlled dumpsite by \u003cbr/\u003eadding a layering of garden soil, and by connecting a series of gas pipes and vents to draw the methane out. \u003cbr/\u003eThe next step was to harness the methane being collected instead of just burning it off.\u003cbr/\u003eNow there's a community ironing centre. One resident, Teresita Mabignay, says \u003cbr/\u003e\"We really save a lot when we do our ironing here, we save a lot on electricity. Before, I used to pay 1,500-pesos (US$32), now I only pay around P700 (US$15). My bill has been reduced a lot because I used to iron clothes everyday, like the children's school uniform, but now I just schedule my trip here to do all my ironing at once.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnd the scheme has encouraged a closer community spirit.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother resident, Jen Tolentino, says \"I do all my ironing here. What I do is round up my women friends to come up here so that it would not be boring. Some who have totally done away with ironing their clothes because of the cost are now coming here after I told them all that here it is for free.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNote:\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2003, the Philippines signed the Kyoto Protocol paving the way for the country to engage in carbon trading through the United Nation's \"Clean Development Mechanism\" or CDM. \u003cbr/\u003eCDM is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries in place of emission reductions in their own countries.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2004, a pilot 100-kilowatt pilot methane power plant was established by the city government as a model for gas-to-power generation project. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd in 2007 an Italian firm, Pangea Green Energy Srl, came into the picture to create a bigger plant that would convert biogas emissions to electricity and enable it to trade emission reduction certificates under the CDM. \u003cbr/\u003eThe 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