Hawaii consumers and businesses could see a 100% spike in the cost to discard beverage containers via curbside recycling, the trash and other means outside of a state redemption program. Senate Bill ...

The Hawaii House and Senate moved closer to resolving their differences on the bottle bill, legislation to establish a 5-cent redemption fee and 2-cent handling fee on a beverage container. Sen.

Above, recyclers redeemed their HI-5 recycling. At a Jan. 24 hearing held by the Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee, three people along with Reynolds Recycling Inc. and a Kauai County ...

Program finances The Legislature established the Hawaii Deposit Beverage Container program under a law enacted in 2002 with a goal to raise Hawaii’s recycling rate to about 80% from 20% for what was ...