The landfill company overseeing the XL Foods meat disposal process are receiving beef by the truckloads in Brooks.

Landfill Manager Ray Juska of the Newell Regional Solid Waste Management Authority, said the massive operation involves unloading numerous containers of frozen meat stock.

The beef is then pushed by heavy equipment to a disposal area where it’s run over and covered with soil to keep animals away.

The operation, spurred on by an E. Coli outbreak at the plant level and the subsequent federal food inspectors’ seizing of more than 5.5. kilograms of beef, is being supervized by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

“We don’t know how long it will take,” Juska said. “We’ve only been doing it for the one day, it depends on how much material they can bring us in a day and how much they’re goint to actually ship to us.”

“It’s not about XL or CFIA; for us this is having a great impact on Brooks – my hometown – and the authority members want to do whatever they can to get this whole thing resolved so they can go forward.”

He added he’s tired of the negative morale in his community and looks forward to the end of the ordeal.

“Things are really [low] since the layoff,” Juska said on the XL Foods employees that have lost their jobs since the scandal broke.

“The food bank is busy, there are people that have just moved here and started working — and the next week they’re laid off,” he said.

A spokesperson for CFIA said at this point there’s no timeline for when their inspection will be completed.