HI-5 Recycling Bins

Hawaii's beverage container deposit program makes it easier than ever to expand recycling activities and raise funds for your school, church group, or non-profit organization. To facilitate the collection, sorting, and transport of nickel-deposit "empties" at your recycling event, the City offers 40-cubic-yard recycling fundraiser bins.

These bins have three sections for aluminum, glass and plastic HI-5 containers with security cross-bars welded across the deposit windows. Each section of the bin can be weighed and accounted for as it enters the recycling facility, allowing the HI-5 deposits from beverage containers collected in these bins to be returned directly to your school and not shared program-wide with the other schools. If your school is planning a HI-5 fundraising drive, these bins can be delivered to your campus for the event and used to collect and store the beverage containers until the fund drive is over. Your school will receive the 5¢ value for each beverage container collected in the bin based on a weight to volume conversion. A full HI-5 bin will bring in an estimated $1200.

Schools participating in the multi-material community recycling bin program will be given first priority in scheduling the use of the event containers , but it is not necessary that you commit to a regular recycling bin to request the HI-5 fundraising bin. Banners to promote your fundraiser to the community are also available.

For more information call Eileen Helmstetter at 768-3426 or email mhelmstetter@honolulu.gov. To reserve a HI-5 Recycling Bin for your fundraising, please download and fax (or scan and email) this application form (PDF).