pahoa transfer station

[leilanidude]

Go to the HI5 place on Pahoa Village Road almost across from the Post Office. I believe they pay better.

[terracore]

That is where I've been going. There is always a wait, nobody helps to sort, and sometimes they throw out cans or bottles that I paid a deposit on because it looks unusual. (If they can't find HI DEPOSIT on the can/bottle within 2 seconds away it goes) I miss the HI5 at the real Pahoa transfer station.

ETA: accuracy

[Kapohocat]

I have been going there as the people there are nice, help me sort or do it for me! and never had them toss something except the stray wine bottle....

I also have never waited - usually only car there.

But glad people will have two options now!

[steve1]

The folks who run the collection center on Pahoa Village Road (Business Services Hawaii) used to have the contract at the transfer station but apparently lost the contract when Atlas (I think) outbid them somehow. Personally I like the fact that they are there every day during business hours (not like every other day at the "official transfer stations" and they don't close for lunch like they do at the transfer sites.

A couple of years ago when BSH was running the redemption center on Apa'a I asked one of the women what they do about all the HI-5 Bottles I see getting recycled along with all the other not redemption glass in the 30 yard dumpsters. She told me they do a presort back at their facility and donate all the money to local charities. I can't remember who got the money back then but she gave me a figure of around $35,000 for the year if I remember correctly.

[lavalava]

Just what the commercial stretch of Pahoa town needed - an industrial recycling sorting facility - as if traffic wasnt bad enough! Once the Apa'a transfer station reopens, the Hi-5 should be relocated up there too!

[kalakoa]

Just what the commercial stretch of Pahoa town needed - an industrial recycling sorting facility - as if traffic wasnt bad enough!

Fighting commercial development doesn't stop it from happening; it merely cedes control of the process.

That location "should" be compatible with the surrounding area. Maybe someday it will be. Until permits for something better are actually available, an indefinitely temporary lease to a non-infrastructure purpose is what you get.

[Obie]

It's not an industrial recycling sorting facility.

It's a HI-5 recycling business staffed by friendly people and its open 7 days a week.It's located in a business district.

I was there one day in the pouring rain and a helpful employee motioned for me to turn around and back under the tarp so I could get out and not get wet.I gave her a tip !

[lavalava]

Glad you got some Aloha - but good customer service does not trump proper zoning!

[Wao nahele wahine]

Went to the transfer station yesterday...I didn't go when it was opened for lava viewing. Wow! Seeing all of that lava pushed up against the fencing is pretty surreal.

Wahine

[kalakoa]

but good customer service does not trump proper zoning!

The property is zoned Commercial.

Recycling station is a Commercial use (no processing, not Industrial).

Again: there was supposed to be something else there, but certain people derailed the permitting process, now we get what we get.

Why is this so hard to understand? Embrace the development and you might get a say in how it turns out. Fight the development and you get what you get.