Recycle the guidelines about recycling

Efforts to promote curbside recycling on Oahu are laudable, but greater clarity in what qualifies for going into the blue container probably would help.

It’s not enough, for example, to say that plastic containers with triangle code 1 and 2 are good to go. What about their plastic lids and tops?

How many people know that corrugated cardboard boxes are welcomed but not cereal boxes? What’s up with that?

Aluminum cans but not tin cans? Newspapers but not magazines?

Perhaps the city Department of Environmental Services could help make recycling more user friendly with public service announcements, reminding consumers what qualifies and what doesn’t (and also why). Folks, too, can help themselves help the planet by printing out a page of the guidelines and posting it on refrigerators; visit www.opala.org.

Flying billboards for Hawaii headed to New York

Eastern U.S. travelers will be able to step directly into the aloha vibe next June when Hawaiian Airlines begins nonstop daily flights between New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Honolulu.

"Flight 50," as in "Hawaii 5-0," will fly red-eye from Honolulul in the afternoon to JFK the next morning; it leaves New York late in the morning to arrive at pre-dawn in Honolulu. Continental Airlines already has a daily red-eye service: between Honolulu and Newark, N.J. Alooooha!