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landfills by 2012. The target year of 2012 has passed and there is no ordinance and implementation plan in place that prohibits the landfilling of food, paper, and compostable organics. On April 17, 2012, the Council adopted Resolution 232-12, Draft 2, "A Resolution Urging the Mayor to Develop and Implement a Fully Funded Diversion Grants Pilot Program for the County of Hawaii". The Council's intention for the County to adopt Zero Waste policies is also articulated in Resolutions: No. 356-07, Draft 2; "A Resolution to Embrace and Adopt the Principles of Zero Waste as a Long -Term Goal for Hawaii County"; and most recently in Resolution No. 525-14 "A Resolution Strongly Urging the Director of the Department of Environmental Management to Increase the Diversion Rate of Solid Waste as Recommended in the 2009 Zero Waste Implementation Plan for the County of Hawai`i." SECTION 2. Chapter 2, article 40, section 2-202, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: "Section 2-202. Powers, duties and functions. The department of environmental management shall manage solid waste, wastewater, [and] recycling, and composting programs of the County, and exercise other functions prescribed by ordinance. The department shall administer this article as well as chapters 20 and 21 through the director. The director may delegate to any person such power and authority vested in the director as the director deems reasonable and proper for the effective administration of these chapters, except the power to make rules. The director may adopt, amend= and repeal rules relating to solid waste, wastewater, [ate] recycling[.], and composting." SECTION 3. Chapter 20, article 3, section 20-31, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended by adding the definitions of "compostables" and "recyclables" to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: ""Compostables" means recyclable materials typically originating from plant or animal sources which may be broken down by other living organisms. Compostables include, but are not limited to green waste,ire-consumer produce food scraps and soiled paper. The term does not include plastics foamed polystyrene (styrofoam) human waste, biosolids (sewage sludge), and slaughterhouse waste." ""Recyclables" are discarded materials that can be reused or remade into other useable material." SECTION 4. Chapter 20, article 3, section 20-31, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended by amending the definition of "Refuse" to read as follows: ""Refuse" means any discarded or disposable matter, including garbage, rubbish, [and] swill[.] excluding compostables and other recyclables." 2