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Maui County seeking bids in plan to turn waste into energy
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 18, 2012
~~<p>Maui County has begun soliciting bids from companies to build a waste-to-energy proj­ect that would divert about 450 tons of garbage a day from the Central Maui Landfill and burn it to produce power that could be sold to Maui Electric Co. or used by county facilities.</p>
<p>"We're taking something we're currently paying to handle, which is our trash, and we're going to be using that to create electric power, thereby reducing our dependency on foreign petroleum," Mayor Alan Ara­kawa said.</p>
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Maui County has begun soliciting bids from companies to build a waste-to-energy project that would divert about 450 tons of garbage a day from the Central Maui Landfill and burn it to produce power that could be sold to Maui Electric Co. or used by county facilities.
"We're taking something we're currently paying to handle, which is our trash, and we're going to be using that to create electric power, thereby reducing our dependency on foreign petroleum," Mayor Alan Arakawa said. Login for more...
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