trashing the islands

More than 26 percent of the food in Hawai?i goes uneaten each year – that’s nearly one billion dollars’ worth of food likely ending up in the landfill.…

Communities large and small have been trying to deal with their own garbage since the dawn of civilization. The first municipal waste dump in the Western…

Recycling is a good goal. It reuses materials that would otherwise end up in the landfill. But the world market is changing and, for Kaua?i, this means…

Several months after Hawaii County stopped accepting plastic products at its recycling program, residents are looking for an alternative, and one not…

Organizations such as the Surfrider Foundation and Sierra Club are active in addressing broad environmental issues at the local level, including on Maui.…

The owner of RRR Recycling that handles Honolulu’s blue recycling bins says he’s had to close over half of his locations since around 2017. The president…

Kaua?i's rural landscape and small-town charm are characteristics residents here enjoy and strive to protect. But small-island living also means limited…

Hawaii Island is in the enviable position of having a landfill with anywhere from 20 to 100 years of capacity left to take in trash. But the island still…

Far from the view of the nearly three million visitors who travel to Maui County each year are two landfills that are filling up fast and approaching the…

About 30 trucks roll down Farrington Highway on the west side of Oahu every day to dump waste at the City and County of Honolulu's only municipal…