HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2015-43, Draft 1COUNTY COUNCIL
COUNTY OF KAUA’I
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RESOLUTION URGING THE ADMINISTRATION
TO CONSIDER NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO MANAGE
THE COUNTY’S SOLID WASTE CHALLENGES
WHEREAS,the County of Kaua’i (“County”)is considering new and innovative
technologies to manage its solid waste challenges;and
WHEREAS,currently utilized technologies like incineration minimize
baseload reduction and decrease the County’s ability to employ diversion activities;
and
WHEREAS,the County faces a solid waste challenge with less than 10¼years
of capacity at the existing landfill;and
WHEREAS,the proposed new landfill site faces permitting challenges and
high construction costs;and
WHEREAS,although the Environmental Protection Agency requires the
County of Kaua’i to build a new landfill,the concept of a new landfill is in itself not a
zero-waste activity;and
WHEREAS,a new landfill could cost the County approximately seventy three
million dollars in construction costs and three million each year in operational costs;
now,therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF KAUA’I,
STATE OF HAWAI’I,that it strongly urges the Administration to consider deploying
new innovative technologies and proven diversion activities in their effort to solve our
current solid waste challenges;and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,that the County Council urges the
Administration to consider technologies and partners who offer maximum diversion
activities as part of the solution to our solid waste challenges;and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,that the County Council urges the
Administration to consider technologies that provide for the maximum net output or
savings of energy and minimize the destruction of non-renewable materials that can
continue to provide value as an item or as a feedstock for years to come in any
proposed solution;and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,the Administration is urged to consider a
public-private partnership as a low to no-cost option for the resolution of our solid
waste challenges;and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,that a certified copy of this Resolution be
transmitted to the Mayor of the County of Kaua’i,each Board of Director for the
Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative,the Chair of the State Senate Energy and
Environment Committee,and the Chair of the State House Energy and
Environmental Protection Committee.
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