Will Bovine Growth Hormone Work On Shrimp? UH Study Seeks To Find Out Gordon Grau, a scientist with the University of Hawai`i’s Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology, has been administering recombinant bovine growth hormone to shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) and tilapia … Continued
Chapter 11-261 of the state Department of Health’s administrative rules contains the language exempting H-POWER from regulation as a generator of hazardous waste, no matter what the characteristics of its ash may be. Section 11-261-4(b) describes “solid wastes which are … Continued
Could the lead, cadmium, arsenic, and other heavy metals in H-POWER ash ever reach such high levels that the ash is regulated as hazardous waste? Absolutely, positively not. That’s not to say the levels could not be high enough to … Continued
What is H-POWER to do with its ash? Every day that it operates, H-POWER, Honolulu’s trash-to-energy plant, generates about 400 tons of ash in the process of burning about 2,000 tons of municipal solid waste. Almost all of the ash … Continued
“This has really been a saga.” Andy Hirose, administrator of the Solid Waste Division of Maui County’s Public Works Department, sighs as he sums up the county’s efforts to develop Phase IV of the Central Maui landfill. From his window … Continued