Waste & Recycling

ALOHA AINA RECYCLING

andrea — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:37:49 -0800

ALOHA AINA RECYCLING

Make A Difference In 09
Be Green By Helping Make Some Green
$10 A Month And Ill Haul Your Recyclables Away

I Am Currently An Avid Recycler I’m Always Running To The Dump To Recycle It All; But I Understand Not Everyone Has The Time.

Im Disappointed By The Fact That The County Doesn’t Think To Invest In Our Island With Curbside Recycle Pick Up Which Is Why Im Offering To The North Shore Residents From Kilauea-Haena An At Home Recycling Pick Up.

You Leave Your Items Out Side At The End Of Your Driveway And Just Like The Trash Guys I Come And Collect And Recycle For You Weekly.

All I Ask For Is A Small Fee Of $10 For My Gas And Time A Month

Im Into Organization Of Items If You Don’t Have Bins I Can Provide For You
pick up days are flexible

if interested please feel free to call me at
346-2923

Zero Waste Kaua'i Meeting

andrea — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:26:37 -0800

Start: Jan 6 2009 - 5:00pm

End: Jan 6 2009 - 7:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-10

ZWK Meeting Tuesday January 6, 5 PM, Brick Oven Pizza, Kapa'a

The Crash Course...with new Last Installments

kauaibrad — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:44:42 -0800

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The Crash Course...with new Last Installments Just watched the last two new installments. Good analysis:

You will learn about:
Intro (on this page, above)
Chapter 1: Three Beliefs (Time: 1:46)
Chapter 2: The Three "E"s (Time: 1:38)
Chapter 3: Exponential Growth UPDATED! - November 3 (Time: 6:20)
Chapter 4: Compounding is the Problem (Time: 3:06)

Paradise trashed

andrea — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:53:50 -0800

Paradise trashed
The Pacific Ocean is choking on our waste.
by Christopher Pala / 11-26-2008
Paradise trashed

Ever since I went to Midway, I’ve never looked at a bottle cap or a disposable lighter in the same way. I used to think they were insignificant little things, which is close to not thinking at all. But walking around this gorgeous atoll 1,500 miles from Honolulu, I discovered that they are lethal weapons responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. When I see one on the beach now, I pick it up, put in my pocket and throw it in the trash.

Midway is home to the biggest albatross rookery in the world. More than 600,000 pairs of Laysan albatrosses descend each year on a pair of islands that make up a tad less than a square mile, packing some areas with a density of several thousand per acre. In fact, there are so many albatrosses present during the November-to-June mating season that the only plane that services the island, a vintage turbo-prop Gulfstream I, has to land at night to reduce the danger of hitting one.

Oahu Sewers Still Not Fixed

kauaibrad — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:36:59 -0800

From Hawaii Reporter http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?3370651a-5499-40d3-b92a-07ac2220f7cf

Nine More Wastewater Overflows on Oahu Due to Heavy Rains
By Marcus Owens, 12/12/2008 8:49:56 AM

Crews from the city’s Department of Environmental Services responded to nine more wastewater overflows on Oahu today.

The National Weather Service reports many areas of Oahu received between 10 and 14 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, surcharging collection systems from Kailua to Waianae.

The list of overflows is as follows:

'Hawaii: Peak Oil Canary in a Coal Mine'

kauaibrad — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:29:36 -0800

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

'Hawaii: Peak Oil Canary in a Coal Mine'

Also, recently came across the following related outstanding post on The Oil Drum about Hawaii:

See: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4192
"Hawaii: Peak Oil Canary in a Coal Mine"
Posted by Gail the Actuary on June 22, 2008

First Council Meeting A Lotta Rocky

kauaibrad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:50:48 -0800

http://kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/11/25/news/kauai_news/doc492ba602e01...

"First council meeting a little rocky"
By Luke Shanahan - The Garden Island
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008

"Councilmember Tim Bynum said he hoped yesterday’s Kauai County Council organizational meeting would reflect the voters’ desire to see change, and that the members would respect one another’s aspirations for committee assignments.

Judging by statements made by several members of the council, and by the reactions of the people looking on from the gallery, Bynum’s hopes were not realized.

After a brief public comment from Kekaha resident Bruce Pleas in which he complained that the caucus meeting should be televised, rather than just being open to the public, the committee got down to the business at hand, determining who would chair the council for the next two years.

First, there was the small matter of appointing the temporary presiding officer of the meeting, or presiding officer pro-tem.

Kaipo Asing was elected to the pro-tem position by a four-to-three vote, with Derek Kawakami, Daryl Kaneshiro, Dickie Chang, and Asing voting in favor, and Jay Furfaro, Tim Bynum and Lani Kawahara voting against.

After that, Furfaro, seated at the head of the table, withdrew his nomination for chair, saying that it was evident that the votes for council chair would produce the same four-to-three vote.

Don't Expect Good Economic Analysis from Hawaii Economists

kauaibrad — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:09:21 -0800

Went to a forum on Kauai last night where the leader of the visitors bureau mentioned needing more marketing dollars so we can "right the ship" and THEN we can address structural sustainability problems. There appears to be a disconnect there with what is happening on the Mainland and the global economy.

Hawaii firm wants to keep clean scrap plastic foam out of landfills

andrea — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:00:49 -0800

Posted on: Monday, November 17, 2008
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081117/NEWS01/811170358/1001
Hawaii firm wants to keep clean scrap plastic foam out of landfills
Local company wants to keep clean scrap foam out of landfills

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer

KAPOLEI — Wanted: foam waste big and small — from those huge chunks that insulate refrigerators to those smaller blocks that packed your iPod.
Advertisement

Pacific Allied Products, the state's only manufacturer of plastic foam-based roofing material, surfboard blanks, portable ice chests and even those ubiquitous packing "peanuts," recently began recycling its own scrap foam.

The program to recycle foam, also known by its scientific name of expanded polystyrene, or EPS, is proving so successful that Pacific Allied now wants to help other companies and even consumers get rid of their foam as well.

It's a proposal with significant implications in a state where there's a growing push to "go green" and recycle while the debate continues over how to divert waste from Hawai'i's overtaxed landfills.

"Bring your foam and we'll pick it up from here," said Bernie Coleman, president and general manager of the Campbell Industrial Park-based Pacific Allied.

Coleman estimated his company will use 1.8 million pounds of virgin foam material in the coming year.

About 4 percent, or 72,000 pounds, winds up as scrap and until a few months ago, that scrap was going into the city's waste stream.

Video: Call to Action for Zero Waste: Plastic Beach on Big Island

kauaibrad — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:28:59 -0800

Saturday, November 8, 2008

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=7334574

"Big Island Beach Attracts Plastic Trash"
Nov 9, 2007
Featured Video
Pollution Spoiling South Hawaii Beach
By Howard Dashefsky

KAMILO BEACH, Big Island (KHNL) -- "A beach that was once a place where Native Hawaiians used to come to find logs for their voyaging canoes, is now a place where tons of trash wind up every year.

A once scenic beach on the Big Island is now a disturbing reminder of pollution spoiling the world's oceans.

It's one of the most picturesque place on Earth. And sadly, it's one of the most polluted. It's Kamilo Beach on the southern tip of the Big Island.

Because it's constantly exposed to the trade winds blowing directly on shore, it winds up being a gathering place for marine debris from all over the Pacific.

Specifically, it's become an accumulation zone for plastic trash.

"Here what were seeing is what all plastic trash turns into as t floats for hundreds of years in the ocean. Plastic fragments" said environmentalist Charles Moore.

What was once a beautiful white sand beach is what Moore and others now call ‘Plastic Beach'. And it is not only on the surface.

"This plastic goes down a foot deep. At one time these were toothbrushes, pens, cigarette lighters, plastic bottles, plastic caps, but now they're plastic fragments and pre-production plastic pellets, together forming a new kind of sand: plastic sand here on the beaches of Hawaii".

In all, tons and tons of debris, and none of it generated here.