12/16/2023
If Kaua’iʻs landfill will be full in 2030 with a new landfill still being built, what can Kauaʻi residents, visitors and businesses do now to avert the looming possibility of no landfill? 🤔♻️
The most effective action is to cut back on the trash we send to the landfill. Our next Kauaʻi Climate Action Forum on 12/13 will help you find ways.
Currently the landfill gets about 260 tons a day. If you look into your waste bin you will find not all of it is trash. We fill the landfill with ¼ recyclables, ¼ organics like food and green waste, and ¼ construction and demolition material. Did you know that food and green waste buried in the landfill emit methane as they decompose?
The December 13 th Kauaʻi Climate Action Forum will focus on Kauaʻi businesses which can help you find ways to keep that non-trash out of the landfill. Andy Boyd, Solid Waste Recycling Coordinator; Jesse Brown-Clay of ; Elizabeth Morse of Sunny’s Recycles; and Megan Fox, Executive Director of will provide ways to reuse, refill, and recycle to help you minimize what you send to the landfill and keep the current landfill from overflowing before the next one is open.
Presented by Zero Waste Kauaʻi, Kauaʻi Climate Action Forum, . Register to join us at bit.ly/zerowastebizkauai.
