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EXECUTIVE SUNS ARY The Department of Environmental Management, County of Hawaii is in the process of redesigning its entire solid waste management system. This initiative is in response to several factors: • An updated integrated solid waste management plan, completed December 1, 2002. • Projected closing of the Hilo landfill within approximately one to two years. • Rising costs for solid waste management. • Budget restrictions. • Long-standing problems requiring immediate resolution. This plan is intended to: • facilitate integration of the Kea`au recycling and reuse center into the evolving County solid waste management system; • identify ways to sustain the Kea`au recycling and reuse center as a permanent part of the County solid waste management system; and • outline a process for creating a system of neighborhood recycling centers by replicating the Kea`au model at other transfer stations. Chapter II gives an overview of the Kea`au pilot community recycling and reuse project, including its history, structure, accomplishments, and lessons learned. This plan was heavily influenced by lessons learned during the Kea`au project. Chapter III provides a brief overview of the current situation in all aspects of the county solid waste management system. The chapter includes available data projections through year 2020. The data are used in Chapter V to reclassify 21 existing transfer stations and one new facility. Chapter IV establishes goals and objectives relative to completing, sustaining, and replicating the Kea`au model. A key goal is to complete conversion of existing transfer stations within ten years. Chapter V describes in detail the completed Kea`au model. The model was shaped by experiences and lessons learned from the pilot project, as well as by input from community residents. The model now encompasses a system of four classes of neighborhood recycling centers (NRCs), each with a standard set of features. Chapter V describes in detail the physical facilities, customer base, staffing, materials accepted, markets for materials collected, linkages to community needs, operations policies and standards, and disaster mitigation measures for each class of NRCs. Chapter VI is an action plan for completing and sustaining the Kea`au model, integrating the model into the County solid waste management system, and adapting and replicating the model island -wide. Chapter VI builds upon and synthesizes material in the previous five chapters.