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for volunteering to be on the committee, because the plan is critically important to the County and the people who live here. His door is always open, and if there are any issues, don’t hesitate to ask him. . 2. INTRODUCTION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF George Hayducsko gave an overview of who he is. Most of his career was in Wisconsin, where he worked for three different counties and designed two recycling programs. He has over 30 years of experience from landfills to waste to energy, and he designed two successful recycling programs. He hopes his experience will help Hawai‘i County in this process. He thanked all of the members for being here and taking time out of their day to volunteer for the community in helping making the recycling and solid waste programs better. He asked the committee to introduce themselves and explain their role today and connection with solid waste and recycling. Barbara Bell: She was the Executive Director for Recycle Hawai‘i before Paul Buklarewicz for a couple of years. She was also on the last two SWAC commissions and through that became the Director of Environmental Management, from where she retired in 2007. Adam Scharf: He works currently at Pohakuloa Army Training Area as the Program Manager of Solid Waste and Recycling for the United States Army on the Big Island. Pohakuloa manages over two million pounds of refuse a year and began a quality recycling program 38 months ago. They were at a five percent diversion rate, diverting waste from the County of Hawai‘i’s landfill. They are tracking 63 percent of all refuse generated at Pohakuloa and diverting it from the County’s landfill by way of composting (food waste, grind and chip wood and turn it into organic matter). They also manage all the metals, ferrous and nonferrous. He has a lot of boots–on-the-ground experience in building programs, approaches, and techniques to approve diversion rates. He recognizes the importance of this committee, and that’s why he had volunteered to be a part of it. He does a lot of data analysis and analyzes the waste stream on a regular basis to come up with metrics and posts and tracks the data to ensure they are always tracking who the large contributors are and what they are contributing, and then build programs around that and measure improvements. He knows he would be of value to this committee to help build a better plan for the next ten years. Georjean Adams: She is currently retired and is the Vice President and secretary for Recycle Hawai‘i. She is also on the board of the homeowners Association for where she lives at Mauna Lani Resort. She started her life as a Junior Bureaucrat with EPA after graduating college and worked with a group that defined what hazardous waste was. Then she got a job at 3M, where the focus was on product stewardship/lifecycle management, trying to figure out how to make sure that products that 3M makes do not cause issues upon disposal. She has been active with the American Chemical Society and has worked as an independent consultant for three years. She brings an industrial perspective, working with companies and their products and issues on how to manage 2