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25, 26, 27, 2008
Blaisdell Arena
Mahalo
to all who contributed to the success of the third annual
Discover Recycling Fair (September 20-22, 2007 at the Blaisdell
Arena) - the exhibitors, volunteers, artists, schools,
musicians
and performers who offered their time and talents to help
promote recycling on our island. Almost 8,000 people attended
the three-day event to learn how they could do more with
recycling - raise funds for their school or organization,
promote recycling in their community, teach about recycling
in the classroom, or simply recycle more at home.
Resources presented at Discover Recycling 2007:
Recycling Fundraising Resources
Community Recycling
Bins for school campuses. Email for
more information and to request a bin.
Recycling containers for schools, organizations,
condos
Recycling container
vendors
Need banners for recycling fundraisers? Email
Graphics to create flyers
and posters?
Lists of recycling
companies, collection
services, HI5
redemption sites
Looking for educational
resources and recycling
projects for your classroom?
Recycling Teaching
Partners
Made in Hawaii recycled
products
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Take the Opala IQ Quiz.
Listen to the latest recycling songs.
Have some fun learning about trash and recycling. Photo Highlights from Discover Recycling 2007
Photo Highlights
from Discover Recycling 2006
Photo
Highlights from Discover Recycling 2005
Some comments and feedback from attendees and volunteers:
"I learned a lot about the environment, and how we can help
the environment by recycling, and not wasting things that can
be
recycle. This experience made me realize that I should start
recycling because I seem to be wasting a lot of things that can
be reusable. I learned that helping the community is good because
it makes you feel good about yourself and it makes others proud
of you. I think that it's great that everyone is trying to give
back to the community."
"The recycling fair helped me master the course competency
of utilizing sources. The fair provided me a plethora of information
about things I didn't know before. I got so much handouts about
recycling companies and other environmental services that I'm
not sure I can use it all just for one paper. Also I made new
contacts with those companies because a lot of the booth workers
who work at the various companies gave me their contact information,
so I'll be able to ask questions or be able to even take tours
of their work sites. I wasn't expecting to get offers from the
both workers to let us take tours of where they work."
"What I learned about my role in the community is I can make
a difference. If I just recycled at least one can or a few newspapers
a day it would make a big impact. If everybody did that then
we would be helping the environment tremendously. Also I would
try to influence others to recycle with the new knowledge and
insight I learned at the recycling fair."
"I learned that cell phones and computers can be recycled. I
didn't know that was possible. Also cans and bottles can be made
into clothing. I thought that was pretty neat and interesting.
I don't understand why recycling isn't promoted here as in other
countries. When I went to Canada shopping centers, parks, and
various other locations had trash cans, but they also had a recycling
container next to the trash can for soda bottles and aluminum
cans. I found that very interesting because we don't have that
here and I thought that was a really good idea to get people
to recycle more. Overall I enjoyed helping out at the fair because
I got to do something I normally don't do on a daily basis. I
also learned
a lot of interesting things volunteering at the fair, which was
entirely unexpected."
See you at Discover Recycling 2008!
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