EATING IN PUBLIC - HI-5 Recycling Bins: 12/5/10

Thursday, December 9, 2010

more in Kailua

1 & 2. Enchanted Lakes Park basketball court

3. Frontage of Pier 1 Imports (Kailua town)
4. Back entrance to Macy's (Kailua town)

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Haleiwa - somewhere... (Kelly)

1. Replaced bin @ bus stop @ Keolu Elementary School (Waimanalo bound)
2. Tennis court @ Keolu Elementary School & Park
3 & 4. Kailua Skate Park
5. Bus stop in front of 7-11 store in Waimanalo (across from Jack in the Box -Hawaii Kai bound)
6. Bus stop @ Kalanianaole Highway & Moole Streets (Hawaii Kai bound)
7. Bus stop @ Kalanianaole Highway & Moole Streets (Kailua bound)
8. Bus stop in front of St. George Waimanalo Church (Kailua bound)
9. Bus stop between St. George Church & Humuniki Street on Kalanianaole Highway (Kailua bound)
10. Bus stop @ Kalanianaole Highway& Humuniki Street (Kailua bound)

Monday, December 6, 2010

TERE checking in Kaneohe/Kailua

1. Bus stop @ Yacht Club Knolls (Kaneohe Bay Drive)

2. Bus stop @ Yacht Club Terrace (Kaneohe Bay Drive)

3. Bus stop next to Bay Drive Market (Kaneohe Bay Drive)

4. Bus stop @ Kailua Beach Park (park side before stop side to Lanikai)

Yet More From Plastic Free Hawaii - Haleiwa

Ruth's 3 bins:
- Aveoveo Beach Park in Waialua
- Alii Beach Park in Haleiwa
- Haleiwa Beach Park

Sunday, December 5, 2010

More by Hawaii Plastic Free - Haleiwa

More Actions by Hawaii Plastic Free - Haleiwa.

Mary Jo put a bin at the Rocky Pt. bike path where surfers park.

Dali put up three at the Sunset Elementary park across from Ehukai, one at the basketball court, one at the tennis court and one by the bathrooms.

No pictures yet. Will post when the ladies send them.

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.