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Milton Hernandez Nimatuj photographed at the Huntington Park High School football field where he performed while in the marching band as a student.In interviews with LAist, many Southeast L.A. residents — including local elected officials, environmental justice activists, and other community members — acknowledge that rendering companies play an important role in reducing food waste. They also acknowledge that community members who live nearby have to cope with smells that can be severe.
Hernandez Nimatuj now works at the nonprofit as a program director and has helped lead “Toxic Tours.” In Southeast L.A., this often includes pit stops at their old elementary schools, as well as the site of a scrap metal recycler in Maywood thatThe guides also take participants to the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, which spewed lead and arsenic intoDilia Ortega and Rossmery Zayas, both longtime residents of Southeast L.A., have led dozens of “Toxic Tours.
“Rendering plants are something that everyone is aware of, but may not be able to name,” Lopez said."Community members might say, ‘It smells like dead dog’ or, ‘It smells like throw up,’" he added, but, “everyone knows the smell.” Last fall, she voiced her frustration in an email to AQMD, calling for Baker’s shut down until the company comes into compliance with odor rules.
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