Henry Gabriel, Recycling Program Branch Chief for the City & County of Honolulu, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi ...

In order to extend the usable life of the West Hawaii Sanitary Landfill, a Hawaii County commission is drafting a bill that would prohibit disposing of recyclable materials at that facility. EMC chair ...

A battle is brewing between bottle bill proponents and opponents in Hawaii. Advocates of the bottle bill propose that beverage distributors pay the state a fee for each bottle or can sold. It ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaii is more than halfway to its 2030 goal of reducing, reusing or recycling 70% of its waste. Oahu residents are recycling at a good rate, but bottles and cans aren't the only ...

The higher the rate of container recycling in Hawaii, the better the chances a proposed container-deposit program would cost money instead of make money, Hawaii Department of Health officials told ...

Hawaii consumers and businesses could see a 100% spike in the cost to discard beverage containers via curbside recycling, the trash and other means outside of a state redemption program. Senate Bill ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii Energy, in collaboration with the County of Hawaii Department of Environmental Management, is launching a recycling drive for old refrigerators and freezers on Hawaii Island.

As the holiday season draws to a close, counties across the state are providing several disposal and recycling options to encourage residents to recycle their fresh Christmas trees and manage holiday ...

The long arm of federal regulation extends even to garbage. The Department of Agriculture has proposed allowing Hawaii to ship some of its garbage to the U.S. mainland. Landfill space is limited in ...

HONOLULU -- With sugar cane and pineapples fading, Hawaii's next big export to the U.S. mainland could be less sweet -- 100,000 tons of trash a year. In one of the most ambitious municipal disposal ...

Above, recyclers redeemed their HI-5 recycling. At a Jan. 24 hearing held by the Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee, three people along with Reynolds Recycling Inc. and a Kauai County ...