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
with a click of your mouse.
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Opalavision!
Coming October 23
on The Green Channel
Oceanic channel 332 and on the web at
opala.org.
Redefining
"trash TV" in a new era of television.
The Green Channel is a new
interactive television network about recycling and living green in Hawaii. It's
the first eco-conscious television network in the nation, and it's locally
produced, providing viewers a single source to explore information about
preserving our environment, island-style.
The Green Channel is being designed
around genres of programming covering energy, water, transportation; and
launches with focus on one of today's most important environmental issues about
how recycling and intelligent waste management contribute to our island's
sustainability.
The Opalavision programming is
supported by the City's Department of Environmental Services. You can watch new
episodes of Opalavision monthly on television and on the web, and you're able
to select what's of interest to you -- it's interactive.
The Green Channel will launch on
October 23. Join us at the FREE Green Aloha Concert on
Waikiki Beach to catch a preview on the big screen with Henry Kapono and Mayor
Mufi Hannemann.
Get the behind the scenes story of The Making of Opalavision.
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Discover Recycling 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Paliku Theatre, 8:30am to 1:00pm
Seating is limited and available for educators
and by invitation only. Teachers -- please make reservations early. Call
768-3200.
This year's Discover Recycling Event is designed for our teachers. The
Paliku Theatre will be transformed to a recycling education resource center,
including an introduction to the new interactive digital television channel --
The Green Channel 332 -- on Oceanic Time Warner Cable. The stage will showcase
live recycling education shows and workshops that are available to schools as
part of the City's Recycling Teaching Partner program. Breakout sessions will allow teachers and student
leaders to interact and network with the performance groups, recycling
educators and television producers, and to gather resources to bring back to
their schools. For more information on this year's event, or to see
highlights from the previous four years' events, click here.
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Worms Turn Garbage into Gold at Hokulani Elementary
If your school is interested in turning your food waste into gold, or any of the other fabulous recycling education available through the RTP program, please click here.
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Curbside Recycling Update
The new curbside recycling
program is rolling out to another 23,000 homes in November 2009 bringing the
total engagement to 120,000 households thus far. The next expansion phase is
set for May 2010 and will add the last 40,000 homes into the system.
More information about the
rollout schedule and program guidelines.
The City expects that the islandwide recycling program
will be able to divert about 100,000 tons of mixed recyclables and green waste
from the landfill. Mixed recyclables are delivered to RRR Recycling Services in
Campbell Industrial Park where it is sorted by commodity, packed and shipped to
markets. Green waste is taken to Hawaiian Earth Products where it is ground
into mulch and further decomposed to produce a rich compost product for local
sale.
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Gyotaku Leads the Way in Local Business Recycling
At Gyotaku Japanese
restaurant, sweet potato haupia pie is not the only item in high demand. In
fact, some of their waste materials can be valuable as well. Tom Jones, the general manager of Gyotaku, has incorporated
recycling at all of its locations.
Glass bottles and corrugated cardboard are recycled. Food waste is collected
and used locally as farm feed, while waste cooking oil is converted into
biodiesel at a local plant. All of these measures help to lower disposal costs
and divert tons of materials away from the landfill. "First and foremost,
recycling saves money," says Tom. As an industry leader with years
of recycling experience, Tom offers assistance to other businesses wishing to
begin their own recycling programs. "If you're not recycling, you need to
be," insists Tom. For more information on business recycling, click here.
Gyotaku is also a destination for the City's award-winning Tour de Trash series which highlights local waste processors that lead the island in landfill diversion. During a tour, attendees get a behind-the-scenes look at Gyotaku's successful recycling operation. When asked why he feels so strongly about recycling, Tom replies "It's the right thing to do!"
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