WAILUKU - Officials with the company that conducted the audit on the county's Solid Waste Division said Tuesday that they would be "hard pressed" to find the $1 million a year in cost savings the county says exists in a proposed waste-to-energy project.The audit, commissioned by the Maui County ...
An agreement with Anaergia Services to build a waste-to-energy facility at the Central Maui Landfill, touted by Mayor Alan Arakawa to save Maui County nearly $1 million a year, will actually cost the county $835,000 more annually than current landfill operations, according to an audit by ...
Officials with the company that's been contracted to build a state-of-the-art waste conversion facility at the Central Maui landfill say the project is still on target for completion in 2018, but at least one Maui County Council member isn't so sure.Council Chairman Mike White said in a recent ...
WAILUKU - The Maui County Council voted Friday to conduct a performance audit of the Solid Waste Division in light of what some council members are calling a "crisis" situation created by a reduction in trash collection and landfill services in a clash with Mayor Alan Arakawa over staffing and ...
The Maui News The Sierra Club Maui Group and Maui Tomorrow have filed a lawsuit challenging the approval of an environmental impact statement for Anaergia Services’ project with Maui County for a renewable energy conversion and sludge processing project at the Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater ...
For over three years a working group of recycling operators, advocates and others have commented on what we see as a bad deal for Maui County. The proposed waste-to-energy plan presented by the Arakawa administration was characterized as a "no-cost" plan for handling Maui's solid waste resource ...
WAILUKU - Early and full landfill closures countywide that are expected to reach 275 by June 30 are slated to decrease by more than 75 percent in the coming fiscal year beginning July 1, officials from the county Department of Environmental Management said Wednesday.The number of delayed or ...
Three years ago, on March 27, 2013, The Maui News ran a short article under the headline: "Mayor to close recycling drop boxes and reduce county's recycling budget." One reaction to this news was a campaign by Maui's recycling industry and advocates to save Maui's successful recycling programs, ...
Dozens of Maui Meadows residents had expressed a willingness to pay an extra $5 or $6 per month to keep their curbside recycling program, but cost estimates released last month by the Maui County Solid Waste Division have some residents reconsidering.It will cost South Maui residents $22 per ...