Hawaii-Based Sustainable Fuel solutions
About us
Aloha Carbon is a Hawaii-based, woman-owned, sustainably-driven, small business providing renewable fuels and innovative solutions to waste management challenges.
Our approach is to focus on the future, aligning innovations in technology across supply chains, building systems that solve big problems- contributing to better business results and a better world.
focused on local sustainability
Our mission is to do something better with waste than to dispose of it in landfills. Aloha Carbon is a technology and project to help Hawaii’s energy transition to climate-friendlier bioenergy options, by delivering waste management solutions that reduce dependency on fossil fuels. We are the recyclers of what cannot be recycled!
We focus on our biggest local needs, which have the least amounts of solutions: finding alternate uses for construction and demolition debris(C&D) and organic urban wastes, and converting them into green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.
DivertING waste from landfills
We Will Lead The Way
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Grow Your Business
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Company identity
What we do:
Waste Diversion
Similar to recycling, where materials are used in a new way, waste diversion makes use of materials away from landfills.
gasification
Gasification can also be used to process waste, but it is a chemical process instead of a combustion process. This difference allows for higher emission controls. Unlike incineration, there is potential for gasification to deliver negative Green house gas (GHG) emissions.
Carbon-Neutral Growth
Aloha Carbon is aiming to help airlines serving Hawaii meet their goals of carbon-neutral growth. This includes producing renewable fuel and carbon credits that meet the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) requirements to hold lifecyle greenhouse gas emissions at 2020 levels – including flights to and from Hawai`i.
What we do not do:
Throw away waste
A landfill should be the final stop for waste after all recycling options have been exhausted. When landfills are full, new sites need to be created, which can affect local communities.
incineration
Incineration is to burn something completely and reduce it to ashes. An incinerator is a device that directly “burns” feedstock, and is a form of processing waste. There are over 50 incinerators in the US.
carbon-Intensive growth
We aim to reduce carbon-intensive economic development by displacing fossil fuel, raw material imports, and greenhouse-gas intensive cement and building materials, with careful sorting and recycling of waste into locally sourced building materials and energy products.
Greenhouse gas comparison for hydrogen
MEET OUR TEAM
Joelle Simonpietri
President
Aaron Ellis
Director of Finance
Michael Turina
Senior Project Engineer
Zachary Wadas
Mechanical Engineering Technician
Naomi Kukac
Communications & Community Outreach
Jennifer Chinen
Environmental Engineering Technician
Hattachai Buttayotee
Engineering Intern
Our partners
Quinn Vittum
Executive Director
ReUse Hawai’i
Ariana Whalen
Director of Communications & Fundraising
ReUse Hawai’i
Miki’ala Lidstone
Executive Director
Ulu A’e Learning Center
A Future Partner
Mechanical Engineering Technician
READ
Editorial: Hawaii a good fit for hydrogen fuel
Hydrogen fuel is a clean-burning source of energy, and can be created from existing construction waste, agricultural byproducts and other organic materials. It can be used to power cars — and airplanes.
Future in fuel to take flight with the Aloha Carbon project
Hawaiʻi renewable fuel firm receives $1.6M from US Department of Energy
Simonpietri Enterprises has received $1.6 million dollars to generate clean hydrogen fuel out of construction and demolition waste.
Watch
Empowered hawaii: TOmorrow’s Tourism
Learn how Aloha Carbon is planning to reduce Hawaii’s landfilled waste while helping to pave the way for a more sustainable tourism industry in Hawaii. WATCH HERE or click on the video.
NEWS
happy earth day! hawaii small business wins innovation award to reduce the cost of sustainable aviation fuel – april 2022
Simonpietri Enterprises’ Aloha Carbon project to create renewable jet fuel for the commercial aviation market is the first of its kind not only in Hawaii, but possibly in the world. READ MORE in our press release.
Mahalo to our Partners
