The Hawai‘i County Council voted Wednesday afternoon to ban the use of herbicides on any County managed or maintained property — including parks, roadways and waterways — beginning in 2024. Bill 101, sponsored by Councilwoman Rebecca Villegas, includes a list of soon-to-be-banned chemicals and lays out alternative methods by which the areas in question will be maintained such as manual vegetation removal, mechanical removal and the use of biological means of removal like goat