Loss of subsidies claims more school recycling bins

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 05, 2012

~~Question: Why aren’t the multimaterial recycling bins at various schools being maintained properly? Ever since the city’s service contract ended last summer, maintenance by Honolulu Disposal Service has gotten markedly worse. The bins have been overflowing almost every time I drop off my recycling materials at Stevenson Intermediate, Noelani Elementary and Punahou School. How often are these bins supposed to be emptied? My street still has manual garbage pickup, so I have no alternative to recycle materials except using those drop-off bins.
Question: I tried to drop off newspapers for recycling at Kahala Elementary School and discovered to my amazement that the bin had been removed. The next day, I drove to Kaiser High School in Hawaii Kai, where I live, and found the same thing: no bin. I live in a high-rise condo, where we don’t have access to the city’s recycling containers. Are we not supposed to recycle anymore?
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Question: Why aren’t the multimaterial recycling bins at various schools being maintained properly? Ever since the city’s service contract ended last summer, maintenance by Honolulu Disposal Service has gotten markedly worse. The bins have been overflowing almost every time I drop off my recycling materials at Stevenson Intermediate, Noelani Elementary and Punahou School. How often are these bins supposed to be emptied? My street still has manual garbage pickup, so I have no alternative to recycle materials except using those drop-off bins.

Question: I tried to drop off newspapers for recycling at Kahala Elementary School and discovered to my amazement that the bin had been removed. The next day, I drove to Kaiser High School in Hawaii Kai, where I live, and found the same thing: no bin. I live in a high-rise condo, where we don’t have access to the city’s recycling containers. Are we not supposed to recycle anymore? Login for more...