Gas Gains: How Reclamation and Emissions Tech Are Riding the Compressed Gas Boom

Take the rising wave of reclamation success stories across the U.S. In North Carolina, Quad R Materials is actively mining buried waste to reclaim aluminum and other recyclables, freeing airspace while recovering materials of value. In Broome County, New York, an ambitious reclamation project led by GHD has remapped old landfill layers into cleaner, more efficient resource zones. These efforts reflect a broader industrial shift: instead of viewing waste as sunk cost, forward-looking players view it as feedstock for the circular economy.

What does this have to do with compressed gas? Everything. Many reclamation and landfill mining operations produce landfill gas (LFG), a potent mixture of methane, CO₂, and trace gases. Capturing, compressing, converting, or monitoring these outputs ties directly into the same infrastructure, regulation, and demand patterns fueling the compressed gas market (e.g. compressed CO₂ for industrial applications).

And that’s where precision measurement tools matter. Operators must ensure that gas streams meet purity, safety, and regulatory thresholds. Portable systems like Diamond Scientific’s MRU VarioLuxx enable real-time monitoring of syngas and carbon dioxide, giving site engineers instant actionable data during reclamation projects.

As the compressed gas sector fuels capital flows and policy momentum, reclamation projects are uniquely poised to benefit, both from new revenue streams and from tighter emissions control.

Diamond Scientific stands ready to support this era of reclamation and compression. Reach out to explore how our analyzers can help your operation measure, manage, and monetize gas outputs.