Renewable energy is considered as “zero-greenhouse-gas-emitting technology” by the Regional Green house Gas Initiative in the Northeast US and by the EU Emission Trading Scheme. Clean energy does not add new carbon to the active carbon cycle unlike fossil fuels which removes carbon from geologic storage. Renewable energy displaces the production of an equivalent amount of energy from fossil fuels. If the waste (Biomass and Industrial) material is not recycled to generate energy then most of this waste material would be left to decompose naturally or land filled. This land filled or naturally decaying biomass material releases carbon in the form of methane as well as carbon dioxide. Methane is between 20 to 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.