I long to be cradled in the soft bosom of my curbside recycling bins. Here's what it takes to be a conscientious recycler in Hawaii. First, you've paid a 6-cent tax on your beverage bottles, so you're best off if you take them to the redemption center and get some of your money back. The "redemption center" is a field, off the highway, for which you have no address, that is "open" only on Tuesdays from 8am-2pm. It will take two drives through town to find it. They take only individual beverage bottles (glass, plastic, cans) and figure your refund based on weight.
Then the regular recycling center is not far. You need to separate your corrugated cardboard from your newspaper, from your other paper/board. They take all kinds of glass, but only limited kinds of plastic, and no milk cartons, those are just trash.
All in all, it takes an hour, but it gives you a chance to hang out with the locals, and you get to feel like the best tourist ever when you're done!
Comments (2)
As a contributor to the "pile," I commend your efforts to keep Kauai green. Here in the recycling hinterlands, I also have to separate box board/cardboard/newspaper. And the drive is much more scenic there. Mele kilikimaka is the thing to say...
Posted by former roomie | August 28, 2007 4:09 PM
Posted on August 28, 2007 16:09
Hopefully you got enough back to "reward" yourselves with more beverage bottles.
Posted by other former roomie | August 29, 2007 1:34 AM
Posted on August 29, 2007 01:34