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July 15, 2008

Hawaii's next big export could be a lot of garbage

  • One bidder is proposing to take the trash across the Pacific and sail it up the Columbia River to a landfill.

    • HONOLULU (AP) — 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.


     
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