After hundreds of South Orange County residents contacted their county supervisor, Katrina Foley, asking why the county was doubling trash going into the Prima Deshecha landfill, she publicly declared the action was a surprise to her.
“Our office was not informed that this was being done by (OC) Waste and Recycling, and I learned about this from all the residents starting to email me,” Foley said during a February interview with Voice of OC. “I have challenged them to do a better job at looking at the landfill as something we’re trying to decrease, not increase.”
In addition to the interview, Foley also publicly denied that she knew anything about the expansion, publicly calling out OC Waste and Recycling Director Tom Koutroulis and noting he never spoke to her about it earlier this year…