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Recycled materials were the centerpiece of a recent Maui County fashion show. But the real star of the show was the runner-up, an 11-year-old from Molokaʻi who walked the runway in her costume made of marine debris. Catherine Cluett Pactol from the Molokai Dispatch has her story. ....
People tell of growing up with dust that nobody took much notice of. It was just part of the deal of having a good employer in the locality. Irish Cement has been “a good employer” in words used several times during a six-day hearing into the company’s latest licence application, by people from Mungret who acknowledge it has provided jobs for 82 years in the country’s most disadvantaged city. But they now fear the good employer may become, in the words of the one of the contributors, “a bad neighbour”. The saga began in 2016 when the company announced it wanted to stop burning fossil fuels to heat its giant kiln in Mungret where temperatures reach 2000C to melt the powdered rock and additives that become cement. ....