Focus Hawaii Recycle Hawaii

Authors

• Lance Chase
• Suzanne Jones
• Annetta Kinnicutt
• Tony Sickler

Files

Description

Hosted by Lance Chase, this 1994 episode of Focus Hawaii spotlights Recycle Hawaiʻi, a city–school partnership designed to reduce waste, educate children, and build island‑wide recycling habits. Chase welcomes three guests central to the movement: Suzanne Jones, the City & County of Honolulu’s recycling coordinator; Annetta Kinnicutt, Laʻie Elementary’s gifted‑and‑talented teacher and student council advisor; and Toni Sickler, a parent volunteer who helps run on‑campus recycling operations. Together they explain how the program began in 1990 as a pilot at twenty schools and grew to more than fifty recycling drop‑off sites across Oʻahu, accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Viewers learn how the large white “Recycle Hawaiʻi” bins work, what materials can be accepted (newspaper, glass bottles, aluminum cans, milk jugs, and select plastics), and what happens to the collected recyclables—from sorting to baling to export to Asian and mainland markets. The episode features a short video tour of the Dillingham Boulevard processing facility, along with examples of how Laʻie students creatively reuse materials in class projects, award‑winning videos, and environmental inventions. The guests discuss the economic realities of fluctuating commodity prices, the educational impact on children, the revenue returned to schools (about $100,000 the previous year), and the growing civic pride in recycling. Filled with humor, community insight, and hands‑on demonstrations, the episode encourages residents to participate in recycling as both an environmental responsibility and a direct investment in local schools.

Length of Video

00:30:02

File Size

2.5GB

Archives Call Number

22.FH

Air Date

Spring 4-12-1994

Keywords

Lance Chase, Focus Hawaii, Recycle Hawaii, Honolulu recycling program, school recycling bins, Suzanne Jones recycling coordinator, Laie Elementary, Annetta Kinika, Toni Sickler parent volunteer, Oahu recycling centers, student recycling education, Dillingham processing center, newspaper recycling, aluminum can recycling, glass bottle recycling, milk jug recycling, mixed containers, recycling curriculum, environmental education Hawaii, school fundraising through recycling, community recycling participation, Oahu refuse convenience centers, creative reuse classroom projects, recycling videos Hawaii

Disciplines

Education | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Chase, Lance; Jones, Suzanne; Kinnicutt, Annetta; and Sickler, Tony, "Focus Hawaii Recycle Hawaii" (1994). Focus Hawaii. 52.
https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/focushawaii/52