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