Search Archive Reynolds Recycling, one of several state's biggest recyclers of deposit beverage containers, has started accepting and spending for glass containers not marked HI-5 now that the metropolis is paying recyclers far more for managing nondeposit glass. Reynolds pays 4 cents a pound for nondeposit, clean, empty,
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Office 2007 Professional Plus Key, explained Markus Owens of your city's Department of Environmental Services. Recyclers receive 13 cents a pound for glass shipped to the mainland for remanufacture into glass, and 8 12 cents a pound for glass that remains in Hawaii and is used mainly for construction and agricultural applications, Owens reported. The recycler is required to shell out customers a minimum of four cents a pound. RRR Recycling Services is also a single of a few companies that accepts nondeposit glass from the public, paying four cents a pound. The city also contracts RRR Recycling to handle all the glass from curbside recycling. After the recycler charges the town a $49.75-per-ton processing charge, the commodity value on the glass is calculated and split 50-50 between the company and the town. The town collects nondeposit glass at the rate of about 4.8 million pounds annually. Island Recycling discontinued accepting nondeposit glass in December. It continues to pick up glass in large quantities but charges a hauling fee. Honolulu Recovery Systems reported it does not buy nondeposit glass, but is contracted to recycle the community recycling bins (at schools and transfer stations). The metropolis does not have an accurate breakdown of your material recycled from those bins. The Hawaii Deposit Beverage Container Program was launched in January 2005. The Reynolds field buyer at the Kakaako place claimed he took in a couple of hundred pounds of bottles from nearby bars in a two-day period but was expecting that number to grow. A champagne bottle weighs about 2 pounds, and an average wine bottle about 1.6 pounds, he claimed. "It's good because there's a lot of it," explained Kakaako resident Wayne Hyland, who collects HI-5 bottles and cans in a Kakaako park and turns them in weekly for an average of $80. Kakaako resident Alice Higa said,
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Office 2007 Enterprise, "It's not about the money." She explained her 94-year-old mother has filled a cabinet with glass jars. "She couldn't throw them away because it's wasteful," she claimed. Higa mentioned the Reynolds program provides an alternative place to bring such recyclables for those without curbside recycling, "whether it's an incentive for money" or just being able to recycle. She now lives in an apartment building without recycling, but formerly lived in a townhouse complex that reduced the number of trash pickups to two days from five after instituting recycling. Reynolds was planning to increase the number of workers at its Sand Island plant and plans to add two a great deal more Oahu locations.