STAND. COM. REP. NO. 431

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1260

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1260 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Health to implement the recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor in its December 2014 Report No. 14-17 regarding advance disposal fee glass containers and glass recycling; and

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Health to report on its implementation of the recommendations to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Auditor, Koae Community Association, Recycle Hawaii, Laakea Community LLC, Reynolds Recycling, and eight individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the Office of the Auditor conducted an audit of the Department of Health's advance disposal fee program and released Report No. 14-17 in December of 2014.  The report recommends that the Department of Health combine the advance disposal fee and deposit beverage container glass processing streams to increase efficiency and decrease costs while increasing the supply of glass available for down-cycling, update and finalize the 2008 Policy Glass Recycling Draft, work with stakeholders to make practical policies and rules governing the stockpiling of processed glass, and increase the recovery rate for advance disposal fee glass containers to seventy-five percent.  Implementation of this measure will encourage the State to address the obstacles to local down-cycling of advance disposal fee glass and implement local uses of advance disposal fee glass.

 

     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. 1260 and recommend that it pass Second Reading 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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JOSH GREEN, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair