Okmulgee - Okmulgee has a jobless rate of 8-point-5 percent, but it's expecting a big change and has reason to celebrate.

A solid waste treatment facility will open soon and will put 14-hundred people to work. The plant will be located right off Highway 75 south of Okmulgee at an industrial park that has been idle for 30 years.

The facility will be 800-thousand square feet on 250 acres. But, it's the jobs that have the area buzzing -- 14-hundred of them which pay around 31-thousand dollars a year.

The company is called Waste Not Technology. It's a Florida firm that will take 95-percent of the trash that is brought into the facility and turn it into re-sellable products.

"Cellulose insulation would be one product to plastic railroad ties, pallets wood fiber furniture would be another, manufacture product that they would do," says Okmulgee City Manager Bob Baxter.

The company had originally looked at Sapulpa, but saw that Okmulgee already had the needed utilities in place. And, when the Okmulgee Chamber donated the land, it made the decision even easier.

A groundbreaking on the facility is set for later this month. Construction will soon follow.

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