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?: \[Unclear\] BL: …. you know, lava rock is hard to dig a hole to bury these things, I mean, you’re not supposed take \[unclear\] so if we’re talking about solutions maybe if we can think about, you know, where all these places we already have a county dump – if we had like a tallow thing where people could drop off animal waste. I know people would be dumping dogs and stuff and be a nightmare, you know, it’s kind of \[unclear\]. Soldiers fly large-scale operation kind of thing where we could do that and help the neighborhoods keep the nuisance flies under control. AK: So, I’m gonna assume that any time we see a dead animal on the side of the road and that’s being removed by Public Works or State Highways… BL: Yeah, remove it – if you’re lucky they’ll dump some dirt on it. AK: So, I don’t see patches of dirt on the side on Highway 130, um, somebody is removing them. I’m curious to know where they go and if it’s just being dumped… BL: Just to the dump… SW: It would be Public Works. AK: It would be Public Works. So, I think a conversation with DEM would be – cause they’d be a site that is willing to pilot this project. The question is I don’t know – I have to pose the question because what we’re asking folks to do here would go beyond the general scope of work of our transfer station employees, um, the work that we’re talking about is working as volunteers and folks that have a willingness to do this on their private property. I’d like to involve the University and Hawaii Community College as much as they would like to participate but I think before we can even can get to this level of like Island-wide – everybody bring your carcass – we have to demonstrate proof of concept that hey – this idea is something that folks can get behind and then then there’s a seamless process for getting carcass to the tubs, larvae to folks that need the animal feed and the point of this Plan is to develop, I think, proof of concept and feasibility in these ideas and to determine how much capital and infrastructure is needed to really scale things up. LT: Yes. AK: OK. LT: OK. Thank you. AK: I’d like to take a thoughtful and methodical approach before going too big, ah, because if we do then we run the risk of not being successful and burning folks out. OK. Point 3, which I’m really excited about is a collaboration with local chefs and our culinary program at HCP. Bob was mentioning that he brought this project up to the butcher shop in Waimea and I think a lot of local chefs would be really interested in working with us to develop a series of recipes of how we might utilize wild pig meat, ah, we can include these recipe cards in our meat club 6