Editor's Note: The video above features coverage of previous complaints from Nov. 13, 2024.

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) – Fall is in the air in Central Texas. Or, for a growing chorus of residents living around a Bastrop-area animal byproduct rendering facility, it's more rancid death.

Grievances about Darling Ingredients’ rendering plant in the Camp Swift area are nearing an all-time high this year, according to complaint records from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It's no surprise to the company, which told KXAN "we deeply regret the frustration of the local community."

There have been over 500 complaints against the facility in the past 20 years, with more than 300 of those lodged in the past two years. The complaints have resulted in multiple TCEQ investigations and violat

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