Hawaii program posts increase.
According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. Hawaii's Health Department, the state's
bottle bill redemption has hit an all-time all-time
adj.
Exceeding all others up to the present time: an all-time speed skating record.
all-time
Adjective
Informal high since beginning Jan. 1,
2005.
The program reached an 85 percent redemption rate in September.
Officials estimate that more than 50 million beverage containers were
recycled during the month.
The container recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. rate for fiscal year 2004 (before the
bottle bill) was 40 percent. It has more than doubled to 82 percent as
of November 2005.
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