A day of reckoning is coming. After May 1, 2008, Honolulu City and County’s ability to use the Waimanalo Gulch landfill will come to an end.
Where do we put the trash?
Got Mufi? Honolulu mayor Mufi Hanneman wants an amendment to the State Special Use Permit to extend the city’s right to use the landfill until 2010.
Ok, after 2010, where do we put the trash?
The answer is easier than you might think. It’s math. The new landfill will go where the least number of people live. For obvious reasons, Oahu’s Leeward Coast residents don’t want the Waimanalo Gulch landfill extended, and they don’t want a new landfill anywhere along the Leeward Coast.
Ok, so where do we put the trash?
Energy conversion? Not by May 1, 2008. Recycling? Not by May 1, 2008? Ship the trash off the island? Maybe by May 1, 2008. If we lived in Las Vegas I’d bet against the latter.
How about the Ala Wai Canal? Perfect. Rubbish trucks would simply drive to the Diamond Head end of the Ala Wai, preferably late at night and with the headlights off, and dump the day’s haul of their trash right into the canal. By morning, all the trash will be safely washed out to sea, and nobody would know the difference.
Hey, it worked for raw sewage.
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