STRIVING FOR ZERO WASTE
It is our kuleana as a community gathering place and business to empower ourselves, members, partners, and the broader community to engage in pono practices that bring us into sacred and reciprocal relationship with the ʻāina, our ancestors, and our descendants.
The goal of this plan is to re-indigenize resource management where rather than dispose “waste” we reincorporate the by-products of one system to be used by another system, and so on, in a reciprocal loop. There is no such thing as “waste” in natural ecosystems. In nature, the by-product of one system feeds another system. Western capitalist economies create this thing called “waste,” while Native Hawaiians lived sustainably as part of an interdependent ahupuaʻa system. We can practice indigenous resource management again, through small shifts, by taking kuleana for the waste we produce and minimizing our negative impact on our precious island ecosystem.
KA WAIWAI PRACTICES
Compost all food waste &/or we feed the pigs!
Zero plastic & styrofoam waste policy
Work with Vendors that reuse their packaging
We serve with dishware, glassware, cutlery & cloth napkins
Restroom hand towels
Recycle!
Inform, Empower & Educate our staff, members, partners & vendors
We considerately ask that all partners, collaborators & guests honor our
ʻAi Pono & Waste Management practices & commitments!
