today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptu

you know, again today, the city has a contract with them to actually pick up the food waste, and recology has indicated that they do not have the capacity to segregate the food in the city and so they transport it by truck and they are planning to build a digester in vacaville and to feed the fuel of the truck that are being used to transport. and so we have the capacity, for high strength waste, and if we were to get a full high strength waste, we can certainly process it, but challenges that we see, and that we have seen everywhere including in oslow is for the high strength waste to be effective it needs to be 100 percent organic and there needs to be a diligent process prelined to be sure that none of the organic processes have been taken out, the most common are forks and knives and plates that have been thrown in on accident. >> and is that different than green waste? which might have even more potential? >> we did not look at green waste, as an option. and none of the plants that we went to, processed green waste. but i can tell you as an example, daily in manchester, one of the te

and we have been having conversations with recology because they are definitely moving forward on their course and the good news being, that under any scenario through our conversations the high strength waste will be converted into either electrical or cng reuse. >> okay. >> one last question. >> and then the end product, it sounds like they will have a high quality, class a product at the end of the day and what is the plan for that? >> we are looking at options, you know, we, it certainly has a land application, and reuse options. and we are looking at whether we simply provide it as a fertilizer for growers primarily in the central valley or if we try to actually have some reuse ourself, we did go visit the los angeles city operations where they trucked their solids to a land that they purchased outside of bakersfield and they do land application and they do the crop growth for land human consumption and the crops like sf for miol and corn and then sell those crops to the local dary farmers as feed for the cows and so, we can either look at that type of reuse, or urban agriculture,