To help make the holidays greener, the Solid Waste Division of the county Department of Environmental Management will again offer tree-cycling.
To help make the holidays greener, the Solid Waste Division of the county Department of Environmental Management will again offer “tree-cycling.”
Residential customers are encouraged to tree-cycle their holiday trees and kadomatsu decorations at the following recycling and transfer stations between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.: Keaau, Pahoa, Volcano, Kealakehe, Keei and Waimea.
From 6:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Dec. 26-Jan. 15 at the East Hawaii Organics Facility, residential customers with only holiday trees for tree-cycling can proceed directly to the facility and look for the designated tree-cycling area — there is no need to go to the county scalehouse, as normally required.
The facility is closed from noon-12:30 p.m. daily.
Residential loads with greenwaste and holiday trees must go to the county scalehouse to be weighed. All commercial haulers or commercial holiday tree collectors must proceed to the county scalehouse prior to recycling.
Be aware that all decorations, stands, lights, tinsel and ornaments must be removed prior to tree-cycling. Artificial trees, flocked trees or trees with decorations cannot be tree-cycled, but can be disposed of in the regular trash chutes.
For more information about recycling, visit www.hawaiizerowaste.org or call the Solid Waste Division at 961-8270.
