HONOLULU -- Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris' curb-side recycling plan would cover every home that's already getting automated trash picked up.

If you want a separate can for your recycle materials, including newspaper, glass and plastics. The city will sell the 96-gallon trash bins for $70 a piece. It's optional, and all part of mayor's plan to encourage recycling.

"I think it's really good because I think Hawaii people forget that we do live on an island with limited resources," John-Paul Tai of Kaneohe said.

Those are the kind of responses Harris said he's getting on his recylcing plan.

Enviromentalist say they like it.

"This is a really exciting proposal from the mayor's office," said Jeff Mikulina of the Sierra Club.

Even Harris' harshest critic on the City Council agrees with the plan.

"Looking at the basic underlying idea, it's a good one and I look forward to supporting the mayor on it," Councilman Charles Djou said.

The mayor said the city may even make some money on the recycling project.

"All of this will at least be revenue neutral or save us money," Harris said. "Even if there's a small charge, it will still save us money."

According to the plan, if your regular trash day is Monday, then on Tuesday, the city's automated trucks will pick up your recycleables. If you want a second trash pickup in the week, it will cost $8 a month.

"People need to realize that there is a cost associated with this service. Right now, we have to subsidize our refuse operation by about $18 million a year," Harris said.

The city estimates 80,000 homes will pay for a second day or about half of the homes that receive the automated trash pickup.

When you pay for a the service, you get a sticker to put on your trash can.

"So our driver doesn't have to keep a list of who ordered a second-day pickup, he'll simply pick up every house with that has a sticker on the can," Harris said.

You wouldn't have to seperate your recyclebles. Just bag or tie your newspapers together so they're easy to pull out. Local recycling companies would do the rest. The companies will bid for the right to sort and sell the materials.

Harris hopes to start the recycling project with the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1.

Every other week, the city will pick up green waste instead the newspaper, glass and plastics. That includes leaves, grass or anything of that nature.

The mayor said the city will not have to buy any more trucks or hire more workers for this program.