HI-5 Recycling Bins

Hawaii's beverage container deposit program makes it easier than ever to expand recycling activities and raise funds for your school, church group, or non-profit

organization. To facilitate the collection, sorting, and transport of nickel-deposit "empties" at your recycling event, the City offers 40-cubic-yard recycling fundraiser bins.

These bins have three sections for aluminum, glass and plastic HI-5 containers with security cross-bars welded across the deposit windows. Each section of the bin can be weighed and accounted for as it enters the recycling facility, allowing the HI-5 deposits from beverage containers collected in these bins to be returned directly to your school and not shared program-wide with the other schools. If your school is planning a HI-5 fundraising drive, these bins can be delivered to your campus for the event and used to collect and store the beverage containers until the fund drive is over. Your school will receive the 5¢ value for each beverage container collected in the bin based on a weight to volume conversion. A full HI-5 bin (filled up to the bottom of the bin "windows") will bring in an estimated $800.

Schools participating in the multi-material community recycling bin program will be given first priority in scheduling the use of the event containers , but it is not necessary that you commit to a regular recycling bin to request the HI-5 fundraising bin. Banners to promote your fundraiser to the community are also available.

Click here to see photos of Iroquois Point Elementary's fundraising event during their celebration of Earth Week (April 2009).

For more information, call Adam Bien at 768-3422 or email abien@honolulu.gov. To reserve a HI-5 Recycling Bin for your fundraising event, please download and fax (or scan and email) this application form (PDF). Please request Mon-Fri drop-off and pick-up times between 6:00 AM and 3:30 PM (and Saturday between 6:00 AM and 2:30 PM).

Each and every time your school reserves a HI-5 Community Collection Bin to raise funds between September 1 through March 15, 2010, your school will automatically be entered in Lex Brodie’s “Earn and Learn” school competition. So the more times your school reserves a bin, the greater your chances to win! Prizes include $1000 (first place) and $500 (second place) matching donations to the Oahu schools that collect the most HI-5 containers during the contest period.