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City Closer To Shipping Garbage To Mainland
Washington Company Offers Lowest Bid
POSTED: 6:40 pm HST June 17, 2008
UPDATED: 10:23 pm HST June 17, 2008
HONOLULU -- The city is getting closer to doing something it has never done before, shipping its garbage to the Mainland.
A Washington state company has come in with the lowest bid to barge garbage from Oahu to the West Coast.
Hawaiian Waste Systems of Seattle hopes by September to ship garbage bales to Roosevelt Regional landfill in Washington State. They had the lowest bid of $99 a ton to ship 100,000 tons of Oahu garbage a year to Washington State.
Simcoe, of Washington state, was the next lowest in price at $184 a ton. The highest was Off Island Transfer at $204 dollars a ton.
"We need to get this up and running we are running out of landfill space here on Oahu and if another community wants to take our trash, my attitude is let them have it," Honolulu Councilman Charles Djou said.
Hawaiian Waste Systems hopes to process Oahu's garbage for shipping at Campbell Industrial Park.
The goal is to cut down the amount of garbage going into Oahu's already overburdened Waimanalo Gulch Landfill. Councilman Todd Apo represents the Leeward coast district where the landfill is located.
"Exporting some of our waste is vital to us now. We have all talked about it. It's a temporary measure -- the city is committed, the mayor is committed. The land use commission is requiring us to get out of Waimanalo Gulch in 18 months," Apo said.
The next step is for the low bidder to meet all qualifications, and if that happens, the contract should be awarded in two to four weeks.
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