Home on the Web

By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin

Friday, April 5, 1996

Giving, receiving for 'Net gain

The trouble with spring cleaning is after you haul all the junk out of the closets and your garage, you still have to do something with it.

Here's the solution: swap it, trade or just give it away through the Hawaii Materials Exchange, which keeps a Web site at http://www.maui.net/~mrghimex/himex1.html.

The purpose of the interactive site is to match businesses, organizations and individuals with materials to dispose of with businesses, organizations and individuals who can use the materials.

The organization is sponsored by the Maui Recycling Group, plus federal, state and county recycling departments.

What if you have the need to get, not the need to give? HIMEX can help. The exchange lists all sorts of deals.

For instance: the Hui Malma Learning Center on Maui is looking for a good home for a Duofone four-telephone system, complete with five handsets and an answering machine.

The organization has the WWW page set up to let visitors post their own discards or to search for that find of a lifetime.

A word of caution, however. Most of the stuff available is industrial leftovers or waste. But then one person's pile of junk wooden pallets is another person's furniture or art collection.


"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com


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