HomeMy WebLinkAboutNR121919DPWTHE COUNTY OF KAUA'I
DEREK S. K. KAWAKAMI, MAYOR
mqa MICHAEL A. DAHILIG, MANAGING DIRECTOR
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News Release
For Immediate Release: December 19, 2019
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
LYLE TABATA, DEPUTY COUNTY ENGINEER
Tel (808) 241-4996
Fax (808) 241-6604
County thrift store reuse open house scheduled for Jan. 7
The County Thrift Store Reuse Program is having an open house on Tuesday, Jan. 7,
from 8 a.m. to noon. Thrift store organizations and the public are invited to walk through the
Kauai Resource Center (KRC) and see the staging area for reusable items and learn more
about why it's important to make sure reusable items are kept out of our landfill and distributed
to people that need them.
The County's program is targeted at thrift stores that will be able to move reusable items
that aren't selling off of their showroom floors and make room for new donations. These
unsaleable items can be dropped at the County's Reuse area at the KRC, and will then be sent
to the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) on Oahu. ARC will receive, sort, and
refurbish material for sale at multiple stores all over Oahu, and whatever does not sell locally
will be shipped abroad to countries the use the items directly, repurpose them, or recycle
material in to new products.
The program is open to individuals, businesses, and other organizations on a case by
case basis. Items collected in the County's program will not be resold at the KRC; they are
designated to be shipped to ARC. The County asks that all interested parties first reach out to
your local thrift store to see if they have the capacity to take donations before bringing them to
the KRC.
The Kauai Resource Center is located at 3460 fronting the Uhu`e refuse transfer station
and Reynolds Recycling.
For more information call Keola at 241-4195 or email kaki@kauai.gov.