Community News

Covanta Honolulu (Kapolei, HI) hosted a visit by the State of Hawaii Department of Health Clean Air Branch. It provided an educational opportunity to share HPOWER’s permit compliance programs while helping regulators better understand Waste-to-Energy operations. The tour group of 14 consisted of ...

Covanta HPOWER participated in the Helping Hands Hawaii Adopt A Family program by donating gift cards and specialty items to a family in the West Oahu community. Covanta HPOWER extends an Aloha to the deserving “adopted” family in the community where most facility employees live.

Covanta Honolulu celebrated Earth Day by working with the Coast Guard and a local non-profit, Protectors of Paradise, to clean up trash along the beach and roads in Oahu. In less than 4 hours, roughly 60 volunteers collected 6.2 tons of trash and 2.7 tons of metal from the area.

Covanta Honolulu took part in the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering Spring Career Expo. Many engineering students stopped by the Covanta booth to learn about the company’s mission and H-POWER’s critical sustainability role for the island of Oahu. Students were also encouraged to ...

H-POWER hosted a visit by Noah Szenderski, a University of Hawaii at Manoa student obtaining his master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Noah is writing his thesis on fly ash and the potential for its reusability and recyclability for the island of Oahu. Pictured with Noah is ...

A visit to Covanta Honolulu by a Honolulu city councilmember led to an informative video for island residents. Councilmember Augie Tulba visited the facility, known locally as H-POWER, in October, and came away impressed with the operations. He sent his videographer to capture footage of the ...

The first ever Green Star Outreach awards were recently handed out to deserving Covanta facilities and employees! The Green Star Awards recognize Covanta facilities and employees for exemplary efforts to educate and support our local communities and organizations. Covanta Honolulu (H-POWER) ...

Employees at Covanta Honolulu (H-POWER) stepped up and met the #Trashtag Challenge this past April! The Challenge was designed by Covanta’s Sustainability Employee Resource Group (ERG) to encourage individual facilities to hold cleanup events within their communities.

Covanta Honolulu (also known as H-POWER) employees celebrated Earth Day by partnering with Protectors of Paradise, a local non-profit, to help clean up trash along the west side of O’ahu. Schnitzer Steel was also involved, donating a can as well as hauling services to transport the waste to H-POWER ...

Covanta Honolulu, also known as H-POWER, held its annual design contest this past February for the 2021 safety sticker for the facility. The winning sticker was created by Environmental Engineer Katelyn Asato.