In our second day, we loaded on a school bus for a "Tour de Trash," an opportunity to see where our waste goes, HOW MUCH there is, and the opportunities for employment within the waste management field.
Our tour guide for the day was
City Recycling Specialist Kevin Nesnow. He gave us the back ground of our Opala system in Hawai'i. On the first stop on the tour, Hawaiian Earth Products, we learn how our green bin waste is turned into much and compost. First the green waste is picked over before being ground up. Next, the mulched green waste is placed in windrows where its turned every week to make COMPOST!
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| Green waste being ground up for mulch |
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| Windrows for compost |
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Our second stop along the tour was
Schnitzer Steel Hawaii Corp.
Think of ALL the metal products that are thrown away that could instead be reused and transformed into new products!
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| Waste trucked in for incineration |
Our final stop on the tour, H-power, where waste is turned into energy. Trash from our curbside pick up is brought into H-power by truck where it is sifted and sorted and ground up before its burned to create energy.
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| Learning about the control room at H-power. |
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