Hawaii Kai, Mililani to start curbside recycling
Source: By Johnny Brannon, Honolulu Advertiser (HI), Wednesday, September 5, 2007
A long-delayed curbside residential recycling program will likely be launched in Mililani and Hawai'i Kai by late October, but a controversial new fee for a garbage collection option wouldn't be enforced until January.
....... The recycling program, which could later be expanded island-wide, comes more than three years after a similar project in Mililani was halted by a dispute with the union that represents city garbage workers. Then-Mayor Jeremy Harris had pushed to expand a privatized recycling project islandwide before leaving office in early 2005.
But the United Public Workers union successfully argued that the move would violate an agreement that allowed the city to shift from manual garbage collection to automated collection. Hannemann's plan calls for UPW members to collect recyclables.