11-25-2007, 05:55 AM
quote:Julie,
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Punapetah,
You miss my whole point! For someone who wants to keep Puna rural your not!
YOU DRIVE A CAR that needs oil and gas and uses tires that we aren’t recycling. Where do you think the're disposed of?
RIDE A BICYCLE….if your gonna’ talk the talk then walk the walk!
Stating a position and then doing the opposite makes anyone a hypocrite and I think that’s what most of us are trying to tell you. I have no problem with freedom of speech, god only knows I grew up in the 70’s. But, you need to come up for a breath and listen.
I’m surprised that # 8 wasn’t something bad about Christmas?
Do you guys not recycle tires there? Just peeked my curiosity. We have many of our streets paved over with that material (the freeways in particular) so that it quiets the traffic. I live in the Phoenix area, fyi. Also, aren't those used to make new tires? Or some people even use them to make homes out of. What a shame if you don't do that.
Unfortunately they don’t add any recycled material in the hot mix asphalt on this side of the island.
I can’t speak for Kona but I can tell you they don’t do it here in Hilo.
Not only can tires be used in the mix but crushed glass and milled asphalt from old roads. Asphalt is one product that is 100% recyclable. Even the State and County contracts call for the base course to have the glass additive if possible. Many metropolitan areas on the mainland all use some type of recycled material in the asphalt.
1. The process requires the plants to add additional equipment to batch any of the aforementioned recyclable into the hot mix.
2. I’m told that we (The BI) don’t produce enough of any of the materials to make it profitable for the plants to add the required equipment.
3. Who pays for the cost to collect, store and transport the material to the plants?
I think the responsibility is up to the government to REQUIRE that the additional recycled material be added.
Give the plants a time frame to get geared up and start using some of these materials in our roads.
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