HONOLULU — Honolulu’s Public Works Committee has deferred a plan to burn recyclables at the city’s H-Power Plant.
HONOLULU — Honolulu’s Public Works Committee has deferred a plan to burn recyclables at the city’s H-Power Plant.
Hawaii News Now reported Thursday that the plan would allow the city to divert recyclable materials it picks up at residences to the plant in Kapolei, where the recyclables would be burned to generate electricity.
Lori Kahikina, director of the city Department of Environmental Services, says it typically costs about $3 million each year to send residents’ recyclables to the mainland for processing. A recent city audit found that had the city burned those recyclables during the past four years, it would have generated more than $29 million in additional electricity sales.
Environmentalists, however, question what the point of recycling is if those materials are going to be incinerated anyway.
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Information from: KGMB-TV, http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/
