On O’ahu, 15% of residential rubbish is wasted food. This equates to about 46,000 tons of food thrown out by households! Consider taking a few simple steps to stop feeding the garbage. You’ll reduce your environmental footprint and save money!
Check out our Food Waste Prevention Page for useful links, food waste facts and helpful mobile apps. Also on this webpage is the electronic version of our booklet “Food: Too Good To Waste“. This comprehensive booklet is tailored to O’ahu residents, and includes storage and preparation tips, recipes to re-vamp leftovers (including recipes by local chefs), donation options, organizational tools, and a printable shopping planner. About 204 million pounds of turkey meat gets tossed this time of year. Try out this Thanksgiving Dinner Portion Planner to decrease your chances of ending up with excessive leftovers. There are some food wastes that we just can’t eat. For inedible food scraps like egg shells or citrus peels, composting is a great option that reduces the volume of our waste stream and puts nutrients back into the soil. For a UH flyer on backyard composting, click here. |
Reduce Thanksgiving Food Waste
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Backyard Composting Workshop: September 21, 2019 at Halawa Xeriscape Garden
Learn the basics of backyard composting using resources from your yard and leftover food from your table! The City Department of Environmental Services has partnered with the Board of Water Supply and Friends of Halawa Xeriscape Garden for this beginner’s composting workshop. Participants will learn tips on how to set up their own backyard composting system and utilize the finished compost. Composting decreases the overall volume of our waste stream; much of which is yard and food waste. Compost also enriches soil without the use of chemical fertilizers, reduces plant disease and pests, and retains moisture in your soil for a healthy lawn or garden. Why throw away yard and food waste when you can learn to compost? Registration required: call 748-5315 or email workshops@hbws.org. Registration closes 2pm September 20, or when all spaces are filled. Click here for details.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Provides Activities, Resources and Tools to Reduce Waste for Back to School
Join the August 22 Tour de Trash: Construction & Demolition Recycling


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Recycling Drop off Events in August and September
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Honolulu Bulky Item Collection Pilot
Beginning June 3, 2019 and continuing through January 2020, residents in metro Honolulu (Foster Village to Hawaii Kai including Waikiki) will be transitioning from a regular monthly bulky collection to an appointment based bulky item collection system. Appointments for the pilot bulky item collection service begin on May 15th. The current regular monthly collection for Honolulu areas will be suspended once the bulky item collection pilot begins on June 3rd.
Bulky item collection appointments will allow single family homes to schedule their bulky collection individually. Multi-unit residential buildings must coordinate their bulky item collection appointment with the AOAOs, property managers and/or resident managers.
To schedule an appointment for the City’s bulky pilot program, please visit Opala.org. Residents unable to schedule an appointment online or for more information regarding the City’s bulky item collection program, please call 768-3200 and press option 0 for assistance.
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