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The Making of Opalavision

Opalavision on The GREEN CHANNEL
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New episodes produced monthly.

Story line-up

  • Sort It Out – Live performers tour schools on Oahu. The show that keeps kids laughing and learning the 3 R's.
  • Where Do Things Go? – The Honolulu Theatre for Youth production brings trash cans to life to help us sort it out.
  • What's in Your Cart? – Costco helps customers sort it out for recycling.
  • Car Care Recycling Lex Brodie's shows how to be green while caring for your car, recycling tires, used oil, batteries, antifreeze and more.
  • SECRETS OF RECYCLING Chapter 4: The Pickup Job aka Dead Leaves Don't Wear Plastic Brandi & Cody tip off Ari on yard recycling the easy way.
  • Drycleaner Recycling Young Laundry & Drycleaning goes green while getting laundry clean.
  • SECRETS OF RECYCLING Chapter 3: Web of Clues
    Cody shows Ari how easy it is to find his collection schedules on opala.org
  • RESTAURANT RECYCLING
    Gyotaku's owner shares his recycling secrets of success.
  • SECRETS OF RECYCLING Chapter 2: Message on the Bottle
    Jonah gives Ari the down-low on which plastics to recycle.
  • SECRETS OF RECYCLING Chapter 1: The Perfect Setup
    Ari and Brandi uncover the secret to easy household recycling.
  • Office Recycling – Cody shows Brandi how paper recycling really adds up.
  • Big Metal - Jonah weighs in with metal recycling facts.
  • Great Waste, Less Filling – Get the inside dirt on landfills with Jonah and Ari.
  • Trashes to Ashes – Brandi and Ari reveal the awesome power of turning waste to energy at H-POWER.
  • It's So Easy Being Green... With Green Waste – Ari and Brandi show how green waste becomes an asset for our island, and how your efforts can help.
  • Baby, Baby, Where Does Our Stuff Go? – Trash Investigative Reporter Tamara discovers what happens to the recyclables in our blue carts.
  • Bulky Items – What's the Big Deal? – Jonah proves that he's a big thinker, at least when it comes to opala. Learn how and, just as important, when to properly dispose of bulky items on Oahu.
  • Recycling is Good Business – Take a brief tour of some of the ways Hawaii businesses are contributing and recycling.
  • There’s No Power Like H-POWER – We take a behind-the-scenes look at how the H-POWER plant on Oahu takes waste and converts it to energy to power Oahu’s homes.
  • Pimp My Ride, City and County Edition – Think that recycling truck is just a giant tub with a driver up front? Our Trash Investigative Reporter, Tamara, hops in for a ride in the big truck.
  • Henry Kapono’s commitment to recycling – Our own Opala expert, Jonah, interviews Henry Kapono about his decades-long commitment to preserving our island paradise through his support of the City and County of Honolulu’s recycling efforts.
  • Food For Worms – The Opalavision team shows how some elementary school students get their hands dirty in the name of recycling – elbow deep in an 18-foot worm composting bin!
  • It’s Cool for Condos – Opalavision’s Cody Cool takes a look at Chateau Waikiki and points out just how easy it is for a condo building to get a recycling program started with the City’s help.
  • Did you know? – A regular segment in which our own Opala expert, Jonah, gives us some facts about recycling that can keep us all motivated to help sustain a greener Hawaii.
  • Recycling Display Tour - The Green Channel/curbside recycling educational display tours Oahu libraries and public places.

Upcoming episodes

  • To be determined...
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