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waste through the commercial stream. As a resident of this island, she wants to keep it the best and make it better. Steven Araujo: He owns and operates D&D Rubbish Service and have been doing it for twenty-five years. He started back when Steven Yamashiro was mayor and has seen the changes from that time until now. He does believe in some of the programs and is also a realist, asking questions such as is it going to work? How much is it going to cost the taxpayer, is there an actual benefit? And how is this going to affect his business and the rest of the rubbish businesses? Paul Buklarewicz: He has been the executive director for Recycle Hawai‘i for the past 15 years. Recycle Hawai‘i is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit. Education is the primary mission, and resource management recycling promotion. He has been facilitating, initiating and expediting a lot of the recycling programs here on the island (E-waste collection, used motor oil, home composting) and along with Barbara served on the last go around of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee ten years ago. Keyra Wong: She is a deputy corporation counsel and advises DEM, DPW and the Real Property Tax Division. Her capacity here is to help this committee and provide legal advice. Robert Ely: He is a retired chemical engineer and environmental engineer and is 77 years old. Right now he is fully employed as a consultant in a project that has nothing to do with what the SWAC is about. He provided some background on projects he has worked on --the design and management of Chem’s Security Systems Hazardous Waste Landfill at Arlington Oregon; Casmalia Hazardous Waste Landfill in Casmalia California; he worked for Zeffro, which is based in Wisconsin, as a manager of process design on sludge management systems; he helped design the anaerobic digestive systems for Alaska Lumber and Pulp in Sitka Alaska; he got involved heavily in the Ainakoa Pono Project and came in contact professionally with Bill Kucharski when Bill was with AECOM; and during the last go around with the incinerator, he worked for Covanta as a consultant looking at both political aspects and technical aspects. He is hoping to lend professional expertise to this group. Alan Okinaka: He is a retired manager from GTE Hawaiian Tel. He was formerly an electrical engineer and initially managed technology but ended his career managing people. He feels the least certified with anything to do with solid waste management, but being a part of the committee is privileged to be a part of group that is trying to manage something that is very difficult to solve. Has two compost piles and embraces 1, 2 and 5 plastics for recycling. He gets upset if he has more than one 32 gallon bag of trash every week and flattens all corrugated boxes down religiously. Mr. Okinaka asked how the Environmental Management Commission, the Solid Waste Commission and the Department of Environmental Management interact. Mr. Goodale responded that Bill Kucharski and Diane Noda oversee the Department of Environmental Management and the two divisions that are within it, which are the Solid Waste Division and the Wastewater Division. The Environmental Management 3