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Page 1 of 1 <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> From: Sandy6[mizb@hilo.net] pj{~f{ ~ Pj~ 1? ~`l <br /> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:49 PM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> ',CL <br /> Subject: Please support Bill 22 <br /> <br /> March 1, 2007 <br /> Dear Council Members, <br /> Please support Bill 22 for the East Hawaii reload facility or sort station. As a high school teacher and active <br /> member of the community, I really want to help reduce the waste stream. Ultimately I and my neighbors, school <br /> students, and friends, prefer that we reuse and recycle as much as possible and burn at a minimum--if at all. I <br /> <br /> was encouraged by the news article a few days ago indicating that there is even more advanced technology that <br /> may make it possible to eliminate a bulk of the trash in an even environmentally safer way. <br /> Most people I know do not like the trap we are caught-up in, having to throw away and seeing others throw away <br /> so much garbage needlessly. Most schools do not even recycle the simple white paper and cardboard generated <br /> everyday; post office junk mail is discarded directly out of mail boxes into the front bins; and I see volumes of <br /> green-waste going directly into my apartment dumpster on a daily basis along with bottles, cardboard, cans, and <br /> paper. All this would be separated out at the sort station I presume, and our waste stream would be reduced <br /> dramatically and immediately--much to our relief. <br /> We look to you to be leaders, not just in continuing to discover the best ways to handle this trash problem, but in <br /> showing intelligent support of those highly researched ideas being proposed by the Environmental Management <br /> Department. They are spending a great deal of time and effort seeking out the best new methods possible for <br /> handling this awful trash problem in the wisest ways. We look to you to trust and support their efforts because <br /> when you don't we become despondent and hopeless, feeling that we will never reach a compromise or begin to <br /> address the problem amicably and cooperatively. Please let's give this sort station a chance while continuing the <br /> search for further refinements. <br /> Our community is looking to you all to support the most harmonious solutions in consort with administration. So <br /> many just regular people want desperately to help by recycling, and we must look to you in government to make it <br /> easier for us to do so. We need this process to be made easy in order for the public buy-in to take place. Please <br /> help us by taking positive action now to give us this sort station. People want the solution with the least CO2 <br /> emissions; we have been begging for this sort station for so many years now to try to avoid massive burning of <br /> trash that it is really the time now to do it. Please. <br /> Recycling and saving the environment is on the top of so many people's minds. At a recent teacher's workshop <br /> training, the major themes of all the groups were environmental issues. We want to help but it is so hard right <br /> now. Please help us to do the right thing by making it easy for us to recycle. These are historic times and your <br /> vote will help the community to do what is needed under the stresses of our fast paced, over-worked, no-time to- <br /> spare-lives. Please pass the sort station...do it for the kids, and go down in history as playing an important and <br /> necessary role in making a wise and historic decision for Hawaii's future. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Sandy Bonk <br /> PO Box 10927 <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96721 <br /> 1-800-384-7456 p <br /> Comm. No. ~ • 0 <br /> Raf. To: !rr><r <br /> Ref. Uote 0 9 2001 <br /> 3/1 /2007 <br /> <br />