STAND. COM. REP. NO. 458

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 651

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 651 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require recycling receptacles to be housed in all state offices and buildings.

 

     Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committees find that recycling should be made available in all state office buildings for aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic containers, white and colored paper, and newspaper.

 

     Your Committees further find that the purchase and maintenance of the recycling receptacles should be included in recycling service contracts and that recycling companies providing the pick-up service of the recyclable material should provide the receptacles as part of their service.  To this end, your Committees amended this measure to provide for this change.  Your Committees have also deleted the appropriation section contained in the measure since the Department of Health, under the amended provisions of this measure, would no longer be responsible for purchasing recycling receptacles.

 

     It is the intent of your Committees to make recycling receptacles available in all state buildings and to require the pick-up service company to provide the recycling receptacles, which will allow the recycling companies to select the most appropriate and efficient receptacles for each building.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 651, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 651, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Health,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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RON MENOR, Chair