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Takeout Boxes Are Filling Landfills. This Town Has A Plan To Phase Them Out

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By Twilight Greenaway Verified
| Honolulu Civil Beat Verified
As Hawaiʻi island prepares to enact a ban on single-use plastic serviceware, a coalition in Hilo is rolling out the nation’s first comprehensive city-wide reuse program with over $3 million in seed funding. The disposable cups, plates and bowls that make it possible to eat and drink on the run typically don’t receive much attention on their one-way trips to the landfill. But what happens when that landfill reaches capacity and you have to start trucking waste across the island?
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Takeout Boxes Are Filling Landfills. This Town Has A Plan To Phase Them Out

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By Twilight Greenaway Verified, Neena Satija Verified
| News from the States
The disposable cups, plates and bowls that make it possible to eat and drink on the run typically don’t receive much attention on their one-way trips to the landfill. But what happens when that landfill reaches capacity and you have to start trucking waste across the island? That’s the case in Hilo, where the South Hilo landfill closed in 2019, and some residents have begun to rethink their plastic to-go waste. Lawmakers are rethinking it too.
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Wastewater In Lava Fields: Delayed Fix Costs Big Island $1K Daily

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By Twilight Greenaway Verified
| Honolulu Civil Beat Verified
After a legal settlement, Hawaiʻi County agreed to upgrade the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant beginning in March. Now the project is four months overdue and the county could face a hefty fine. Construction on an $31 million upgrade to the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant, which discharges about 1.7 million gallons of lightly treated wastewater daily into a pit in the lava fields on the West Side of Hawaiʻi island, is now four months overdue.
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