Honolulu mayor seeks to implement curbside recycling. (Municipal Recycling).Honolulu, Hawaii For the city and county of Honolulu, see City & County of Honolulu. “Honolulu” redirects here. For other uses, see Honolulu (disambiguation). Honolulu is the capital as well as the most populous community of the State of Hawaii, United States. , Mayor Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris, born December 7, 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware, served as Mayor of Honolulu from 1994 to 2004. A biologist by training, Harris started his political career as a delegate to the 1978 Hawai'i State Constitutional Convention. is seeking to combat the island of O'ahu's waste problem with monthly residential recycling collections and automated collection of green waste. 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. a news item in the Honolulu Advertiser, O'ahu currently recycles 500,000 tons of waste annually; however, city officials hope to increase that figure by 69,000 tons by 2005 using the two curbside curb·side n. 1. The side of a pavement or street that is bordered by a curb. 2. A sidewalk. adj. Located, operating, or occurring at or along the sidewalk or curb: recycling programs, increasing Honolulu's recycling rate from 32 percent to 38 percent. "As island people, we understand well the reality of finite natural resources," Harris said in his State of the City address in January. "If we are to make our island more sustainable, we have to change from a pattern of consumption and waste to one of conservation and reuse." The proposed curbside programs are intended to persuade residents to recycle by offering monthly curbside pickup of bottles and plastics and making the city's biweekly bi·week·ly adj. 1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. n. pl. bi·week·lies A publication issued every two weeks. adv. 1. Every two weeks. pickup of green waste more cost-effective for the city and more convenient for residents, according to the news report. Three-person city crews collect green waste twice a month currently. An automated collection service, however, would require only one person to operate the truck and eliminate bagging and binding of green waste, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. |
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