WasteLine Contributors
Managing
Editor
Suzanne Jones
Editor
Adam
Bien
Assistant
Editor
Tamara Farnsworth
Contributing
Writers
Chris Hirota
Eileen Helmstetter
Amy Long
Michael
O'Keefe
Kevin Nesnow
Irobela Wreagh
Staff
Photographer
Irobela
Wreagh
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Aloha,
Welcome to WasteLine, a bimonthly e-newsletter which profiles successful
community and business recycling programs, innovations and technology, and opens
discussions on new directions in the City's waste management and recycling
programs. You can stay in the loop, talkin' trash, connected to the resources
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Got Curbside?
The City's new 3-cart curbside
recycling program continues to expand into new communities every six months. In
May an additional 40,000 homes will come onboard in the following communities: Pearl
City, Aiea, Halawa Heights, Waipio Gentry, Wahiawa, Whitmore, Waipio Estates,
Launani Valley, Kaneohe, and Waimanalo. With this rollout, 100,000 homes
are included in the new program. Participating households have three carts for
sorting waste -- gray for refuse, green for green waste, and blue for mixed
recyclables. For most households, their current collection days remain the
same. But in the new system, one collection day is for refuse in the gray cart
and the other is for recycling pickup, alternating each week between the green
and blue recycling carts.
For more information and to find out when curbside recycling will be offered in
your community, click here.
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EWASTE Recycling -- FREE Drop-off Available
These days, having the
newest, cutting-edge electronics is all the craze. But before you know it,
even they become outdated and obsolete. So what to do with all your
'old' electronic devices (e-waste)? Sure there are plenty of locations to
drop off your retired cell phones, and even charitable organizations that
accept them as donations. But what about the old television, DVD
player, computer, or stereo system? The best thing to do is DONATE them to
a local non-profit organization that can reuse or redistribute
them. If that's not an option, then the next best thing is to
recycle them. Retailer and manufacturer take back programs are growing. For a
comprehensive list of all reuse and recycling options for your unwanted
electronics, click here.
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Close
the Loop with Greencycling
After you mow your
lawn, clip the hedge, prune your trees, weed your garden, and put all that
green waste at the curb for pickup,
be sure to pick up some FREE MULCH to put back on your landscape. Mulch can be
used for beautification, erosion control, to retain moisture and minimize
watering, and to suppress weeds and minimize yard work.
Be a part of the greencycling loop on Oahu. Green waste from your
home yards, condos and commercial properties is taken to Hawaiian Earth
Products to be processed into mulch and other composting products.
For more information on greencycling and FREE MULCH pickup sites, click here.
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Recycled Sculpture Contest
Oahu students kicked off
Earth Month in April by participating in the Opala Recycled Sculpture Contest.
Students from Kindergarten through Grade 12 were asked to create a sculpture
from items that would otherwise have been discarded or recycled, keeping with
the theme of "protecting the environment and Earth stewardship."
Contest entries were on display and judged on April 11 at the Mauka to Makai Earth Month Environmental Expo held at the Waikiki Aquarium. Click here to see what they created.
For more information about recycling project resources for schools, click here.
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Lex Brodie's Earn and Learn School Competition Winners
Congratulations to Punahou School (first place) and Waimalu Elementary and Mid-Pacific Institute (tied for second place) for winning the Lex Brodie Tire Company Foundation's "Earn and Learn" Recycling Contest! Punahou School was awarded $762 in matching funds from Lex Brodie's for its top-producing HI-5 fundraiser event during the 2008-2009 school year. Mid-Pac and Waimalu each received $500 in matching funds for their HI5 recycling efforts (raising $660 and $659, respectively).
The Lex Brodie Tire Company Foundation launched the "Earn and Learn" Recycling Contest to challenge schools around Oahu in a competition to collect the most HI-5 beverage containers in a single event between September 1, 2008 and March 15, 2009. There were 65 entries with the participating schools earning a total of $15,000 -- just from the recycling revenues. That equates to 300,000 beverage containers. The three winning schools alone collected almost 42,000 empties in just three events! A la Lex Brodie's slogan -- "Recycling -- It's so easy, a caveman can do it!"
For more information about how to request HI-5 fundraising bins from the City, click here.
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