By PAMELA V. BROWN - Special to TGI
August 13, 2001
67,200 tons total, just 1,400 tons to Kekaha landfill
PO'IPU - Are you watching, new owner of the Coco Palms?
In what Mayor Maryanne Kusaka and others hope will become a "great model for other businesses," the old
Waiohai's demolition to make way for Marriott's Waiohai Beach Club resulted in only two truckloads of debris making
it to the Kekaha Sanitary Landfill.
If all 67,200 tons of construction debris had been hauled to the landfill, it would have diminished the landfill's
life expectancy by nearly a year, by county estimates.
Based on the county's average intake of 6,390 tons of debris per month at the landfill, the recycling and reuse
of Waiohai building materials effectively gave the county back 11 months of much-needed life at the landfill, said
Allison Fraley, the county's recycling coordinator.
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