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City corrects green-waste recycling problem

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Plant and tree trimmings collected at residential curbsides in urban Honolulu are now going to Hawaiian Earth Products for recycling, rather than to the HPOWER plant to be incinerated, city officials said yesterday.

As recently as last week, some of the "green waste" collected on Oahu's south side was getting mashed back in with the garbage and sent to HPOWER or the landfill instead of being recycled, said Suzanne Jones, the city's recycling coordinator.

"The problem has been corrected," Jones said. "I would hope that anyone who had been separating out their green waste would continue to do so."

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