HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0107.188 2016-2018 From: Dante
To: Council Testimony
Cc: Dante Carpenter
Subject: Bill 13,Draft 3-Council Agenda Sept 7,2017-Recommend Reconsideration
Date: Wednesday,September 06,2017 2:15:58 PM
Valerie Poindexter, Chairperson
and Members of the Hawai'i County Council
Subject: Sept. 7, 2017 Council Agenda - Bill 13, Draft 3; Recommended Passage
on 1st Reading
Comments:
Myname is Dante Carpenter, former Hawai'i County resident who has held elected
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positions as a Hawai'i County Councilman,
Hawai'i State Senator, Hawaii County Mayor, and also as Trustee, Office of
Hawaiian Affairs. I am presently employed as a
Consultant and am also a Director of Pacific Waste, Inc.
While Bill 13, Draft 3, certainly was offered with good intentions to curb a growing
problem contributing to negative environmental
impacts, with particular emphasis on ocean debris, Polystyrene food containers Is
not the problem!
Polystyrene has been approved by the Food& Drug Administration (FDA) as safe
for human use for over 50 years!
Recently, Mr. Wayne Hamada, Energy Recovery Administrator for Honolulu's
HPOWER Resource Recovery System,
recently stated that they have not experienced any problems with converting
polystyrene to electrical power!
Mr. Gregg Fraser, Executive Director of the Hawai'i Restaurant Association's letter
printed in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on
Wednesday, September 6, 2017, hits the "Nail on the head!" "Foam containers
have value: ban wouldn't curb sea debris..."
It is logical and points to the realities of increasing costs, inconvenience,
impracticality, and in itself offers no simple solution to the
debris problem(s)!
Simply put, the problem is inadequate litter control. Therefore, i recommend
reconsideration, i.e., File Bill 13, Draft 3.
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I Respectfully submitted,
Dante Carpenter
Carpenter & Carpenter Inc
(808) 358-7104 cell
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