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The transfer Station is 2 miles from the High School and just over 1 mile from the Puna Baptist <br />Church and yet idiots still can't manage to get their rubbish to the facility but find it easier to <br />dump it along Cemetery Road! <br />Transfer station is Great! Town always appears clean. <br />Neighborhood recycle stations would encourage less waste. As well, more H15 recycle bins <br />along the street would be good. A model composting /permaculture garden could become the <br />site of ongoing composting workshops and other natural, sustainable ways of malama 'aina, as <br />well as community gardens and harvest celebrations. A plan for cleaning up illegal dumps and <br />junk cars should begin in Pahoa and radiate out to the rest of Puna. The village schools can <br />create place -based learning communities wherein the kids are actively involved in keeping the <br />village clean and green, perhaps even offering food for sale that they grow at the Sunday <br />market. Village residents can dream up incentives for taking part in village upkeep and <br />beautification, such as friendly competitions or treasure -hunt style cleanup days ... wherein <br />artists make art from trash and prizes are awarded. <br />Street cleaning should be more ongoing and regular. The new transfer station is very nice. <br />could really use help with curbside recycling and diversion of recyclables from landfill on a <br />convenient communitywide basis. <br />Leave the dump open longer hours, take e -waste to be recycled, otherwise people are just <br />throwing it in the trash when the guys aren't looking <br />The transfer station and recycling and greenwaste collection is excellent. <br />Should have municipal trash pickup,curbside recycling <br />There should be more recycleing places and when people bring in there cans they shouldnt get <br />ripped off. <br />Need recycle bins in town <br />No trash pick -up <br />Much of waste is food waste from restaurants; need local composting facility nearby - -can <br />produce marketable product from what is otherwise a costly problem, smelly, attracting rats. <br />San Francisco composts food & green waste as a city. Let's see Pahoa do that. <br />The new transfer station is grand. People need some easy ideas about sorting and recycling at <br />home, because many still do not do it. Especially those who have trash haulers come to their <br />Sanitation, waste disposal, environmental health Page 5 <br />