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Who deserves to be awakened as early as 2:30 a.m. by the sounds of the beeping, banging and clanging of dumpsters being moved and emptied by private refuse company workers? This is a rhetorical question.
Honolulu City Council Bill 23 was introduced nearly one year ago and was intended to have trash pickup by private refuse companies begin no earlier than 6 a.m., the same time as city refuse pickup.
The bill is virtually dead and never went beyond first reading.
Councilmembers have chosen not to give their reasons why they cannot protect all residents from these companies. Their silence is as abusive as the deleterious noise of the far-too-early morning trash pickup.
Thousands of words and countless pleas for assistance from impacted residents were presented to the City Council. Must legal action be the next recourse to have councilmembers take this issue more seriously, and end these early-morning sounds of abuse?
Carlino Giampolo
Waikiki
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