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About Your Refuse and Recycling CartsYour household will have a complement of three carts for sorting your waste – gray for refuse, green for green waste, and blue for mixed recyclables. Additional carts are available to accommodate larger generating households. Please see About Additional cart Options. About SortingGreen waste includes grass, tree and hedge trimmings; Christmas trees (no ornaments or flocking). Mixed recyclables include newspaper,
corrugated cardboard, glass bottles and jars, aluminum
cans and plastic containers
#1 and #2 plastic codes. No other paper, magazines, telephone books, glossy paper, cereal or tissue boxes. No other glass, such as drinking glasses, ceramics, window glass. No other plastic, such as polystyrene foam, plastic tubs, plastic bags, plastic toys. More detail about What to Recycle. More detail about plastic resin codes. About Your Collection ScheduleYour current collection days will remain the same. For example, if your refuse is currently picked up on Monday and Thursday, your new collection days will also be Monday and Thursday. In the new system, one collection day is for refuse in the gray cart and the other day is for recycling pickup, alternating weekly between the green and blue carts. Click here for Collection Schedules, including a monthly calendar showing alternating weekly schedules. About Additional Cart OptionsIf your household consistently generates more than the average quantity of green waste or non-recyclable refuse, you can request additional carts at no charge. You may request up to two additional green carts for green waste. A second gray cart can be issued to households with large families and greater amounts of refuse, and set out in tandem on your once per week pickup day. There is no charge for these additional carts; however, the households will be asked to demonstrate need. Households requesting an additional gray refuse cart must be fully recycling to qualify. Please call the City’s Recycling Office at 768-3200 to make your request. Please be prepared for City personnel to inspect and monitor your refuse setout. About Getting Comfortable With the New SystemA two-month transition period will allow residents to adjust to the new system. Twice-weekly refuse collection will continue for two months (following the program start date) at no charge while you get accustomed to sorting recyclables into the blue and green carts and see how much waste remains in your gray cart for refuse pickup. These two months will give you time to determine if you need additional carts or service. About Additional Refuse Pickup Service (Mililani Only)During the pilot program, Mililani households were offered the option to pay for an additional refuse pickup for a fee of $10 per month. Hawaii Kai households were asked to work within the simpler system of one collection day for refuse and one collection day for recyclables each week, with no option for additional refuse pickup. Curbside recycling was launched in these two communities with all of the program elements identical except for the second day refuse options. The purpose was to allow the City’s Department of Environmental Services to clearly determine the need for a second refuse pickup and the effectiveness on recycling rates and participation by comparing results from the two project areas. Hawaii Kai outperformed Mililani in the pilot program. Recovery rates and setout rates were noticeably higher in Hawaii Kai than Mililani, and less than 5% of Mililani residents opted to pay for additional service. Of those households that paid for additional refuse service, 62% were not using their recycling bins. The second-day paid service offered to Mililani in the pilot will be phased out. ENV will contact all of the affected households to assist them with other available no-cost options, such as an additional gray bin, if volume had been the issue, or getting started with recycling, if they had been resistant. Tips for Sorting, Recycling and Reducing Waste and Litter
Additional Drop-off OptionsHouseholds may also drop off refuse, bulky items and green waste at any of the City’s Convenience Centers or green waste can be taken directly to the composting facility. There is no charge. If you take your green waste to the composter, you can also use this opportunity to pickup free mulch. Refuse & Recycling
Convenience Centers Composting Sites Special note to town homes, multi-family dwellings and homes serviced with a manual refuse collection system (not with the wheeled carts). The City does not provide curbside pickup of green waste or mixed recyclables to your homes. However, drop-off facilities and free mulch are available to all householders, as well as bulky collection service, community recycling carts, household hazardous waste drop-off events and more. |
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