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In the Alaska Solid Waste Regulations, there are a couple of citations that pertain specifically to wildlife. And I can give you those citations, but what it boils down to is basically bears must be kept out of the trash, period. And we're talking the trash more so than the landfill in general. So I think that's a little bit what is guiding our looking to next steps to really focus on the cell number 1, which is where the household trash goes into, as opposed to putting all our efforts into the landfill as a whole. Because the idea is that if the bears cannot get into that trash, then they no longer have a really good food source.

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