EATING IN PUBLIC - HI-5 Recycling Bins: 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Parking lot on Waimanu, just Ewa of Kamakee

Saturday, September 5, 2009

On Kahuna lane by Kokua Market

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Palolo Valley with Jill and Greg

1) Pu'u O Kaimuki Mini Park 1
2) Pukele Mini Park, Across from Jesus Coming Soon

Fumiko at Manoa Valley

1) on East Manoa Road, in front of Starbuck's
2) UH Manoa Astronomy Building, Shuttle Stop
3) at Manoa Innovation Center

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Help us make more bins!!

It costs about $5 to make a bin. Help us make 200 more!!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

team - renee • sara • art

In front of bus stop on Monsarrat and Kanaina Avenue

Near the tennis courts/bathrooms at Kapiolani Park

In front of Diamond Head Market and Grill at the Bus Stop, located on Monsarrat Ave. Cross street is Campbell Ave.

Leading to the bus stop near Kapiolani Community College...

Bus stop in front of Kapiolani Community College...

Coffee Talk - 3601 Waialae Ave.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Roosevelt High School

Roosevelt High School gets binned.
See more photos on facebook album.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bins spotted in Makiki

WILDER AND KEWALO
See more photos on facebook album.

Honolulu Community College!

10 bins make debut at Honolulu Community College.
See more photos on facebook album.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

More Downtown Sightings!!

See more Downtown bin sighting photos on facebook album

Makiki Appearances!!

See more Makiki photos on facebook album.

In front of public library - King and Punchbowl

In front of public library - King and Punchbowl
2 hours apart between the two photos. I think we need a bigger bin, or more frequent pick-ups.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

On Waialae Ave at 9th, in front of Town Restaurant

Friday, June 26, 2009

Sneaky Debut at Honolulu Academy of Art's - ArtAfterDark

Thanks to Theresa Bins make sneaky debut at ArtAfterDark - Honolulu Academy of Art on Beretania and Ward.

Bins at Arts at Mark's Garage - Inside and Out

Arts at Mark's - 1159 Nuuanu Ave and Pauahi
(thank you kris for sending pics. add updates in the comments section)

{bins funded by daphne l.}

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Wherever Honolulu Farmers' Market is, the Bins Will Be Too!

Honolulu Farmers' Market - Blaisdell Center on wednesdays, Mililani sundays.
see more photos

{these bins funded by James K}

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Kailua Town

Starting in on Kailua. See more photos on facebook album.

{these funded by Renee I.}

One more on Kahekili Hwy

Rounding up the coastline of Kamehameha Hwy with this one connecting to Kahekili Hwy, nearly across from the famous Hygenic Store. see more photos

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

In front of East of Java on Beretania

Our second success with a store owner. 2 in front of East of Java on Beretania near Ke'eamoku ave. see more photos

{these funded by Bruce L}

about the Anarchist Recycling System

It all started one day in 2004 when the city dropped off a blue recycling bin at our place. We were so happy. "FINALLY!" we thought. Nerdily we put all our recyclables in and waited for the pick up. We waited, and waited, and waited for two sad years. They never came. Frustrated, we took matters into our own hands. We made a simple wire mesh bin and attached a sign with a tongue-in-cheek anarchist message, "HI-5 / Take, Leave, Whatevas..." We added our redeemables and set it up at our front yard. Viola they were picked up. Soon unknown people dropped off their own redeemables, and these too were picked up without ceremony!!! If it worked so well at our front yard, we thought why not put them everywhere.

The idea caught on very quickly. People invited us to do workshops. We collaborated with community groups. A few people sent money for materials. We even received a small grant from the Hawaii People's Fund. By our unscientific estimate, over 1,000 bins have placed on O'ahu along with a few on Maui.

In 2011 the unexpected happened. The coordinator of Honolulu City and County's Environmental Services (ENV) called us. Instead of freaking out or being defensive she told us she liked the HI-5 bins, the simplicity of its concept, its design, and its community-building potential. To make a long (and painfully bureaucratic) story short ENV officially adopted the HI-5 project in 2013.

Like we did before, ENV will work with anyone, particularly groups, to make and set up bins, providing instructions and all needed supplies. Most miracously ENV kept the language of our [TAKE, LEAVE, WHATEVAS...] signs AND our DIY instructions that explicitly say to [Trust Without Apology]. To prove that they meant it, they do not provide pickups. A major triump over the irrational fear of strangers! Anarchists are everywhere.

So go ahead...
- Request a bin-making kit or a workshop from C+C Environmental Services
- Or better yet, downloadable step-by-step instructions and take matters into your own hands

Lastly, we must acknowledge that recycling, no matter how comprehensive, do nothing in dealing with gluttonous First World consumption patterns and the excessive packaging around all the sad shit we buy. The larger purpose of the HI-5 bin project is to create a consciousness of our interdependency through actual practice and real relationships, not based on abstract notions of groups or communities.