Hawaii's New Export: Trash

(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 plans yet, Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island, is looking to send some of its garbage on a 2,600-mile voyage to the West Coast.With 900,000 residents and close to five times as many tourists each year, Oahu is running out of landfill space. And neighbors on other Hawaiian islands say they have enough garbage of their own, thank you very much.

Hawaii's next big export: municipal trash

Associated Press

Mon Jul 14

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