Visit the City's Recycled Products Store at the Made in Hawaii Festival (August 20-22)

Tour de Trash 2004-2005 Booked Solid

H-POWER Article

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August 2004
City and County of Honolulu, Dept. of Environmental Services, Refuse/Recycling Operations
1000 Uluohia Street, Suite 212
Kapolei, Hawai‘i 96707

Visit the City's Recycled Products Store at the Made in Hawaii Festival, August 20-22 at the Neal Blaisdell Center

Not only has the Made in Hawaii Festival become a summer cultural mainstay for Oahu residents and visitors, but this year’s Festival promises to be the biggest and most varied ever! The Festival will run from August 20th through the 22nd at the Blaisdell Center (Exhibition Hall and Arena). The Festival’s offerings for 2004 include food, books, gifts, fashions, plants, art, crafts, produce and more -- ALL locally made. Festival hours are 10:00 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, August 20, and Saturday, August 21; and 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday, August 22.

As in years past, the City's Recycling Office will set up its Recycled Products Store in a prominent 1000-square-foot corner of the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. The Recycled Products Store will showcase recycled art and products manufactured in the islands. North Shore artist Dale Cronn uses tumbled recycled glass and various types and guages of metal wire to create her whimsical and one-of-a-kind sea turtles, dolphins, and garden sticks. Bernie Moriaz has exciting new pieces each year, you just never know -- wall hangings made from corrugated metal roofing material, fascinating sculptures using barbed wire. Locally made garden compost from Hawaiian Earth Products, benches composed of recycled milk jugs made in Maui by Aloha Plastic Recycling, crushed glass garden sculptures, recycled cellulose insulation, biosolids fertilizer pellets, and fun things made from aluminum cans by The Tin Can Man of Maui will also be displayed.

Related topics and links:
Greening Your Yard with Local Compost
Green Waste Recycling
Recycled Products Made in Hawaii

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Tour de Trash 2004-2005 Booked Solid

Oahu residents apparently are really, really interested in learning about how their solid and liquid wastes are recycled, treated, or otherwise disposed of. All twelve monthly tours of Tour de Trash 2004-2005 were booked solid within a week and half after the schedule was announced last month.

However, if you still want an up-close look at the recycling and waste processing technology in operation on Oahu and behind-the-scenes tours of island businesses that institute the most successful recycling programs, please call the City's Recycling Office at 768-3200 to get on the tour waiting list. Those on the waiting list still have a chance to get a spot on the tour of their choice if other participants cannot attend. Plus, when additional tours are announced in the near future, those on the waiting list will have the opportunity to sign up first.

The first tour of the 2004-2005 series, a full-day Recycled Products tour on July 15, was both educational and fun, as evidenced by the photos in this story. Participants got an inside look at several businesses that are blazing a new trail in developing locally-made recycled products and helping to reduce the volume of Oahu's waste stream. Tours are offered each month -- some half-day, some full-day (dates and times can be viewed here). Tour sites include: H-POWER, Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, Hawaii Metal Recycling, Island Recycling, Honolulu Recovery Systems, Hawaiian Earth Products, Unitek Solvent Services, Pacific Biodiesel, Grace Pacific, Intech, Island Demo, AES Hawaii, Baseyard Hawaii, Honolulu Zoo, Young Laundry & Dry Cleaning, Hard Rock Cafe, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Sheraton Waikiki, Gytotaku Restaurant, Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant, and Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.