Multimaterial Community Recycling Bins

More than 75 schools have campus recycling bins that generate money for their school monthly. The City is expanding the program, and invites your school to consider joining. You can choose to establish a multi-material community recycling bin on your campus (paper, glass, plastic, aluminum), which would provide regular income to your school. And/or you can request special HI5 fundraiser bins to support periodic collection campaigns for deposit beverage containers.

Please read on for more details about how this will benefit your school and help us expand recycling islandwide.

Beginning September 1, 2007, new recycling contracts will:

increase monthly revenue to community recycling bins;
offer special bins for HI-5 fundraising events; and
with improved design and signage

How much money can you expect?

Monthly checks from the multi-material community recycling bins will triple at a minimum, and possibly increase six-fold. These bins have two sections for the collection of PAPER and MIXED CONTAINERS. Under the current contract, schools receive $1.00 per ton for the paper and $49.60 per ton for the mixed containers collected in the bin. Starting in June, schools in the program will get $15 per ton for the paper and $75 per ton for mixed containers. Additionally, schools will receive the 5¢ deposit for HI5 beverage containers in the bins. The amount of HI5 revenue return will be determined on a program-wide quarterly averaging.

To give you an idea of the revenue potential the new contract offers, consider this: Ahuimanu Elementary School had nine hauls in October and received $88.11 for 9.25 tons of paper and 1.59 tons of mixed containers. Under the new contract, Ahuimanu Elementary would receive a minimum of $258 for the paper and mixed containers. Plus, assuming 15% of the mixed container weight in the community bins program-wide is comprised of HI5 beverage containers, Ahuimanu could potentially receive an additional $357.75 for the deposit value, resulting in a total of $615.75 for the month.

Multi-material recycling bins also can be used to recycle campus generated waste, including classroom paper, newspapers, corrugated cardboard boxes and beverage containers and cafeteria food containers, potentially reducing your school's waste disposal costs.

Click here for more information (including locations) about the multimaterial community recycling bins.