Updated at 10:21 a.m., Thursday, September 6, 2007
Recycling project meetings set for Hawaii Kai, Mililani
Advertiser Staff
Mayor Mufi Hannemann and city officials will hold neighborhood meetings in Hawai'i Kai and Mililani next week to explain the recycling pilot project scheduled to begin next month in those two communities.The Hawai'i Kai meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Haha'ione Elementary School cafeteria. Another meeting will be held at 7 p.m Tuesday in the Mililani High School cafeteria.
The Department of Environmental Services will also make presentations to the area neighborhood boards at their regularly scheduled September meetings.
The new pilot project for curbside residential recycling is slated to begin on Oct. 29 in Mililani and Hawai'i Kai.
The project will serve about 20,000 households, and Hannemann has said he is serious about expanding it. An islandwide effort, however, is expected to divert less than 3 percent more material from the Waimanalo Gulch landfill, because much is already recycled.
The pilot effort is expected to cost up to $1.5 million, while an islandwide program could cost $9 million per year, officials said.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a 2006 city charter amendment that added curbside recycling to the city's environmental duties.
