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The bagger will allow Public Works to bag compost they are required to provide to county residents as part of a state initiative, instead of leaving a pile for residents to shovel into buckets.

Chuck Magee, Public Works Manager for Kern County, tells 23ABC that the air burner allows the landfill to take waste that was previously left to rot in the landfill and turn it into electrical energy.

Across Kern County, there are 24 locations where residents can take their Christmas trees to be recycled free of charge.

The cost to build the facility is estimated at $27 million, however Public Work's manager Chuck Magee believes the project is a prime candidate to receive a $10 million dollar grant.

Kern County will now accept bids to build a new composting facility officials say will save taxpayers millions of dollars and meet looming state deadlines to cut emissions.

Street value for everything from banana peels to grass clippings could rise in coming years as Kern decides whether to embrace a new form of energy collection that actually isn’t

According to KCPW, if the state's mandates under SB 1383 are not implemented by July 1, the state could start penalizing Kern County for every month of noncompliance going back to January 2022.

The proposed composting facility, which would be next to the Shafter-Wasco Landfill, is expected to reduce pollution by reducing the amount of organic-waste methane emitted from the landfill.

Year-round most people are mindful to sort their trash, during the holidays usual mindfulness turns into carelessness. In the end, the haste means extra burden for waste management workers.

A year ago, the French Fire ravaged California's eastern mountain communities, burning over 26,000 acres. After 12 months, work to recover those forest lands is ongoing.