04-13-2008, 05:52 PM
Like other places where recycling, composting, and re-use have been successful, it is the local private sector that drives it. For real!
In the same way that compost is now being made on Maui from discards (formerly known as 'waste') and is just being initiated on this island, some basic infrastructure (a site at the existing landfill, roadway to it, utility connections, zoning) and the private sector builds it and runs it and makes money from it. The government saves money.
For every ton of discards, recycling generates 10 times as many local, private sector jobs as incineration.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park