A bill at the Hawaii legislature that seeks to ban disposable wipes is moving through committee hearings. The purpose of House Bill 268 is to protect the plumbing. If passed,
Cesspools, which are commonly used across Hawaiʻi for the disposal of waste, have long been accused of contaminating groundwater with disease and have posed large environmental health concerns for streams and the ocean.
After state legislators passed a law in 2018 requiring property owners to convert their cesspools by 2050, a working group of experts has been evaluating how affordable the transition would