With the challenges that we are facing, new solutions need to be looked at, solutions that are outside the box sometimes, or that require us to get out of our silos and look at how we might work together. So I was happy to hear that Recycling Lives, an effort to provide job skills training for the homeless and disadvantaged, had opened its doors and begun operations recently.

Recycling Lives is the name being given to a Kern Alliance for Business venture. KAB is the not-for-profit arm of Kern County. It inherited a glass recycling machine a couple of years ago and has turned that machine into a job skills training program for the homeless and disadvantaged of Kern County.

David Couch represents Kern County’s 4th District.