(a) The council of the City and County of Honolulu (the “city”) makes the findings and determinations set forth in this section.
(1) The council has heretofore determined it to be in the best interest of the city and necessary for the health and safety of the residents of the city to provide for environmentally sound disposal of solid waste generated and collected in the city.
(2) Pursuant to HRS § 340A-3, the council enacted Ordinance 79-32 to amend this chapter, among other things, to provide that the chief of the refuse division of the department of environmental services may require all solid waste, whether transported by the division, licensed collectors, businesses, or individuals, to be disposed of at disposal facilities (as defined in this chapter) or in areas designated by such person if it is found to be in the best public interest.
(3) In furtherance of the determination and the implementation of the powers granted in this chapter, it is in the best interest of the city and its residents to further amend this chapter to redefine certain terms and to define certain additional terms and to authorize the designation of facilities as a part of a disposal system of the city for the processing and disposal of solid waste generated in the city and to prescribe procedures for the enforcement of the powers granted to the chief.
(4) To provide for the environmentally sound and systematic disposal of solid waste generated in the city, it is in the best interest and necessary for the health and safety of the residents of the city to create a citywide disposal system for processing and disposal of solid waste generated in the city and for the director of environmental services to designate from time to time the disposal facilities or private disposal facilities constituting a part of such system and the methods for such processing and disposal.
(5) To permit reusable materials to be recovered from solid waste, to achieve the solid waste volumes necessary to meet the minimum operating requirements of the Honolulu resource recovery facility hereinafter defined and to lessen the demand for landfill sites in the city, it is in the best public interest of the city and its residents for the director of the department of environmental services to designate a particular solid waste processing disposal and resource recovery and electric generating facility of the city to be constructed at the Campbell Industrial Park (hereinafter defined as the “H-POWER project”) as a part of the disposal system to be created pursuant to this chapter.
(6) It is in the best interest of the city and its residents to approve the form and the terms, provisions, and conditions of a contract for waste processing and disposal services (the “disposal contract”) between the city and Honolulu Resource Recovery Venture, a Hawaii general partnership, as contractor, pursuant to and under authority of HRS § 46-85, and to approve the execution and delivery thereof by the appropriate officials of the city.
(b) (1) In addition to the findings and determinations made under this section, the council establishes the following goals:
(A) By the end of 2007, at least 65 percent of the solid waste generated within the city be recycled, reused, composted, used for the generation of power, fuel, or electricity through a waste-to-energy or other alternative technology facility, or otherwise diverted from placement in a landfill;
(B) By the end of 2010, at least 75 percent of the solid waste generated within the city be recycled, reused, composted, used for the generation of power, fuel, or electricity through a waste-to-energy or other alternative technology facility, or otherwise diverted from placement in a landfill; and
(C) By the end of 2015, at least 90 percent of the solid waste generated within the city be recycled, reused, composted, used for the generation of power, fuel or electricity through a waste-to-energy or other alternative technology facility, or otherwise diverted from placement in a landfill.
(2) The percentage goals in this subsection shall be reviewed annually by the department of environmental services, which shall recommend to the council any necessary revisions. For the purpose of these goals, “solid waste” includes source separated waste generated in the city, but not introduced into the disposal system.
(Sec. 9-1.0, R.O. 1978 (1987 Supp. to 1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 9, Art. 1, § 9-1.1) (Am. Ords. 89-114, 99-32, 06-40)