The project aims to increase the landfill diversion and recycling rate as well as reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional landfill disposal operations, according to the project’s recently released draft environmental assessment.

“Depending on how the draft EA goes, we’re projecting we will get good feedback, and once that happens, we’ll get those comments and address those comments,” Clint Knox, vice president of BioEnergy Hawaii, told PBN. “We’re hoping to get permits completed by the end of next year.”

The project is expected to be operational by the start of 2019.