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The city offers programs and materials to help educators teach about recycling through classroom activities and recycling projects. We provide activity books, recycling shows, recycling project ideas and assistance.

What are you looking for?

Implementing a recycling project at your school?

The city offers equipment, educational materials, and a team of experts to assist you. Call our team of experts at (808) 768-3200 and ask for the Schools’ Recycling Specialist.

Equipment to help you with your HI-5 Collection Drive?

The city offers recycling containers to collect and store recyclables on campus and banners to advertise HI-5 collection drives.

Recycling Containers: The City and County of Honolulu offers to non-profits, schools and other city agencies the use of the ClearRecycle container for events. This container is designed as a thick steel frame that can be transported easily and set up in seconds. Please visit the Recycling Containers page for additional information about ClearRecycle containers.
Banners: Customizable banners are available to increase awareness of the event. Interested schools and organizations should contact the Recycling Branch for more information at (808) 768-3200 or email info@opala.org.
You can also help promote your recycling fundraiser by designing your own posters and flyers. Recycling graphics are available in the Resource Library.

Local companies that can assist your event?

The companies below can assist by providing large containers to fill and facilitate the collection of HI-5 deposit beverage containers and by picking up the recycling collected in your event. Please contact them for more information.

Honolulu Disposal Service/Honolulu Recovery Systems
Call (808) 841-3179 for more information.
Offers free pick-up for your school’s HI-5 fundraising drive.
RRR Recycling Services Hawaii
Call (808) 682-5600 for more information
Offers free pick-up for your school’s HI-5 fundraising drive.
rrrserviceshawaii.com
Reynolds Recycling
Call (808) 487-2802 for more information.
Offers free pick-up of your school’s sorted and bagged HI-5 beverage containers.
www.reynoldsrecycling.com/who-we-help.asp

Local companies that can help coordinating and implementing a recycling program at your school?

These organizations can help:

Kokua Hawai‘i Foundation 3 R’s Program.
The Green House In Pauoa Growing Green Schools Program.
Waikiki Worm Company for large-scale food waste composting projects.
Kokua Worms for classroom food waste composting projects.

Educational Tools for the classroom, such as activity books?

The city offers a number of books that can be used at school. Visit our Resource Library.

Recycling Graphics, Video, PowerPoints, Music, Recycled Art?

Visit our Resource Library.

A field trip for your class – a custom Tour de Trash?

Visit our Tour de Trash page to learn about the types of public tours we offer. To discuss options for a custom tour or presentation, please call (808) 768-3200.

Educational television programming that can introduce your students to recycling and waste management operations on O‘ahu?

Check out Opalavision on The Green Channel for 20+ three-minute fun and educational youth-friendly episodes.