07-04-2016, 04:14 AM
'Hawaii recycling was actually raw material export. It required off-island buyers. That is why there is the news about more cars being abandoned. The commodity price of scrap iron has collapsed, the commodity price of recycled tires has collapsed. If there is nobody willing to pay for shipment of junk off the island, it is going to stay here.'
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Just speaking to scrap metal there is a bigger issue on the Island, very short summary (simplification for brevity sake):
the owner of B.I scrap metal who has exported direct to S.E Asia for years, holds the county metal contract at the Hilo Landfill for years (decade?) & also owns JYD towing* who previously would pay people $50 for scrap cars (PICK THEM UP!)....the county owes him $5 million dollars, the only company I am aware of that can actually send barges of scrap metal off Island to a foreign country has been pissed all over by the Kenoi admin for 7+ years now
he is in a very long legal battle with the county (pissing contest with Kenoi admin),
*And Atlas Recycling
Edit: My point is, its not so much the falling prices making offshoring the scrap metal something that no longer occurs, it's the pissing contest between Kenoi and Mike Allen why it no longer occurs (before he left office Allen and Harry Kim had an agreement to settle the 5 Million $ debt for 50%)
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Just speaking to scrap metal there is a bigger issue on the Island, very short summary (simplification for brevity sake):
the owner of B.I scrap metal who has exported direct to S.E Asia for years, holds the county metal contract at the Hilo Landfill for years (decade?) & also owns JYD towing* who previously would pay people $50 for scrap cars (PICK THEM UP!)....the county owes him $5 million dollars, the only company I am aware of that can actually send barges of scrap metal off Island to a foreign country has been pissed all over by the Kenoi admin for 7+ years now
he is in a very long legal battle with the county (pissing contest with Kenoi admin),
*And Atlas Recycling
Edit: My point is, its not so much the falling prices making offshoring the scrap metal something that no longer occurs, it's the pissing contest between Kenoi and Mike Allen why it no longer occurs (before he left office Allen and Harry Kim had an agreement to settle the 5 Million $ debt for 50%)