Choice Health Bar on Maui has partnered with West Maui Green Cycle as the first business on Maui to compost to-go containers at the facility. West Maui Green Waste is Maui’s first commercial composting facility that is permitted by the Department of Health to complete the intended cycle of compostable food ware products.
The news comes following the implementation of Maui County’s Plastic Disposable Foodware Ordinance that went into effect in March of 2022. Choice Health Bar.
“While the non-plastic products now required for use by all take-out food service providers is a huge step towards reduction of environmentally harmful single-use plastics, these ‘compostable’ products require separation from landfill bound rubbish and processing by industrial composting systems to transform into soil,” according to a press release announcement regarding the partnership.
“A (properly-permitted) commercial composting facility can effectively compost up to 70% of the types of materials in our municipal solid waste stream that are currently being landfilled,” stated Gretchen Losano, founder of West Maui Green Waste.
Through extensive research, training, and a grant from the County of Maui to purchase equipment, business representatives say Maui’s first small-scale commercial composting facility that will allow for processing of compostable foodware is “completing the crucial last steps” of the efforts put forth with the County ban on plastic to-go food service items.
“We are pleased to support these two pioneering businesses with closing the loop on recycling compostable products,” said Tamara Farnsworth, County of Maui Environmental Protection & Sustainability Division Manager. “These efforts are […]
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