UPDATE 2/24/21 EARLIER THIS YEAR!! Since it is an annual event and it was in JUNEof 2020, most seem unware this year it is this month and deadline to register is THIS FRIDAY, Call 808 695-2999 with a list of your items & to schedule your drop off time on March 7 More info call County 270- 7880
6/10/20 You have less than a week to make an appointment , as 6/15/20 is Monday.
5/14/20 #kihei
The deadline is June 15, 2020, to make an appointment to participate in an annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection event. The annual event is set for June 28, the Department of Environmental Management announced.
The service is offered by appointment only. To make an appointment, call Cameron Chemical Corp. at 808-695-2999 before June 15 to schedule a drop off time. Callers should prepare in advance a list of household hazardous waste items they will be dropping off.
A crew from Cameron Chemical will fly to Maui for this event. Residents are encouraged to schedule an appointment early to allow staff to have on hand enough equipment and supplies to safely process all of the hazardous waste dropped off during the event.
Accepted items include: aerosols, antifreeze, car batteries, household batteries, fire extinguishers, fluorescent bulbs and tubes, oil-based paint, old medications, pesticides, solvents and thermometers. If you have an item that is not listed, ask about it while making an appointment.
This service is for residents only. Businesses seeking to responsibly dispose of hazardous waste should contact a hazardous waste processor:
EnviroServices, (808) 839-7222
Oasis Environmental Group, (808) 529-1300
Cameron Chemical Corp., (808) 695-2999
PSC, (713) 623-8777
This event is sponsored by the County of Maui, Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Sustainability Division. For more information, call the Recycling Hotline at (808) 270-7880.
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Last spring, I contacted the Maui Refuse supervisor to ask why there is not a Regular residential hazardous waste program on Maui He checked with his managers, and was embarrassed to say he did not know why they don?t have a program to regularly dispose of hazardous waste. The ?annual? ONE-DAY Hazardous Waste Collection s simply not good enough. Many folks have no way to collect hazardous waste for a year, or possibly take time off work to transport the waste. What happens as a result, much of the hazardous waste ends up in the regular garbage, which ends up in the island dump. This is not environmentally acceptable!
Where I lived in San Mateo County, CA, easy appointments can be made Monday thru Friday to deliver hazardous waste. Sometimes, arrangements an be made for pick-up. In South Lake Tahoe, CA, hazardous waste can be delivered to the refuse collection site WITHOUT APPOINTMENT, every Tuesday and Saturday. Like Hawaii, the Lake Tahoe Basin is environmentally sensitive, and we do not want household hazardous waste (or commercial waste) to be dumped into our grounds, waterlands, meadows, or Lake Tahoe!
I sent a email last year to Kelly King about this issue, and never had the courtesy of a reply – sorry to say. We need to develop a better program to deal with household hazardous waste and protect our Aina!
I was born on Oahu, and almost 20 years ago, I was able to purchase my property in Kihei. I try to spend the winters in Kihei and summers at Lake Tahoe. This year, I cancelled my flight & time on Maui this Spring because of COVID-19, and hope to get back to Maui by fall. I plan to join KCA and also offer to pay my tenants? first dues if they elect to join. I appreciate all the hard work that KCA does for our community and our island!
Hi Judi.
Mahalo for commenting on this matter and your kind words about KCA. First some background about this event. For many years there was no reasonable way for residents to properly dispose of household generated hazmat . We believe action at a KCA meeting several years ago was what changed that.
SEE https://gokihei.org/news/what-do-you-do-with-your-hazmat and ?https://gokihei.org/meeting-recap/4025253
So while an annual collection may not be satisfactory, five years ago we had no collection at all, but community action changed that for he better.
As KCA is ?dedicated to protecting, sustaining and enhancing our ‘aina kai and ‘ohana,? we have always advocated for the three ?R’s?- last resort is recycling. But on an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific, it is much more challenging than on the mainland.
Some would say what we do here is not recycling, it is gathering and shipping to distant lands several products to divert them from our landfill. So it is much more complicated that what is done on the mainland.
We have made great strides in the first (best) R- reduce, with the plastic bag reduction act several years ago and more recently Styrofoam and single use plastic bans. If you reduce import of products, no need to export them later.
As far as what action might be done to improve this annual event, you might consider contacting Council Member Shane Sinenci who is chair of the
Chair of the Environmental, Agricultural, and Cultural Preservation Committee.
Another variation from most places, in our county all nine councilmembers represent all residents regardless of which district is home. Their division is more about what than where
(808) 270-7246 and Shane.Sinenci@mauicounty.us .Aloha