Aloha Aina Earth Day to include recycling, clean-up

The “Aloha Aina Earth Day – Third Annual Recycling Community Clean Up Project” will take place on Saturday, July 12, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kahalu‘u Regional Park, 47-200 Waihe‘e Rd. on Oahu. The event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit KEY Project and “also great for engaging our program youth and building relations with community members who want to do the right thing,” said organizer John Reppun.

Community Sponsors include Senators Clayton Hee and Jill Tokuda, City Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz and Representatives Colleen Meyer, Ken Ito and Pono Chong. Reppun asks community members to bring their recyclables to support KEY Project  programs for youth and families and to bring canned goods to supplement its weekly food bank.

Acceptable items include: scrap metal, bicycles, metal appliances, lawn mowers, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, newspaper, cardboard, beverage containers (HI-5), up to four passenger car tires per household, green waste, all kinds of batteries, cooking oil, telephone books and magazines, used eyeglasses and hearing aids, usable clothing and household items, cellular phones, printer cartridges, up to one computer per household or one per car.

Recyclers participating in the event include: Schnitzer Steel Hawai‘i Corp., Refrigerant Recycling, Inc., Honolulu Recovery Systems, Unitek Solvent Services, Hawaiian Earth Products, Interstate Battery Systems Hawai‘i, Pacific Biodiesel, Hagadone Printing, Hawaii Lions District 50, Goodwill Industries Hawai‘i, Intrade Corp., T & N Computer Recycling Services.

For more information or for curbside pick-up, call the KEY Project, (808) 239-5777 or Rene Mansho, (808) 306-1876.