Breaking Down Cardboard: Why This Overlooked Material Is a Cornerstone of Hawaiʻi Island’s Composting Future
When people picture composting, they often picture food scraps — banana peels, coffee grounds, vegetable trimmings. What they picture less often is cardboard. But for Hawaiʻi Island’s growing network of composting operations, cardboard isn’t an afterthought. It’s essential infrastructure. From the commercial compost operations that process restaurant and grocery waste to the backyard bins where families turn kitchen scraps into garden gold, cardboard plays a foundational role. It is, in composting terms, the...
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