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Put old phone books
in recycling binsQuestion: Can you please tell us where we can recycle our old telephone books?
Answer: We answered that question July 15, when the word was to take your old directories to any of the city's 80 community recycling bins, most of them located on school campuses. Call 527-5335 for information.
Verizon Hawaii also hired Island Recycling to coordinate the bulk pickup of 400 or more directories from businesses, condominiums and hotels.
Both offers were supposed to be good only through the end of August, to coincide with Verizon's delivery of the new directories.
However, if you've still got your old books, you can still take them to a recycling bin.
"It's not a hard and fast deadline," especially since it may take a couple of weeks for the bins to fill up and be emptied, said Suzanne Jones, the city's recycling coordinator.
But "we need to recycle the books in quantity to efficiently market them," she said, explaining why the city doesn't want the books straggling in after the usual summer collection period. The phone books are supposed to be deposited in the bin for newspapers and flattened corrugated cardboard. Once taken to the recycling site, the three are separated because they represent different grades of paper, Jones said.
The other side of the recycling bin is for mixed containers, such as aluminum cans, plastic beverage containers and glass bottles and jars.
Jones added that if you're going to be recycling your phone books, this might be a good opportunity to recycle other products -- getting into a year-round habit of recycling.
Q: During the 1994 construction of the Harbor Court at 66 Queen St., five parking meter stalls were removed -- two at the makai-Diamond Head corner on Merchant Street and three at the Ewa-mauka corner on Nuuanu Avenue. I believe they were removed to allow cement trucks to turn left from Nuuanu onto Merchant to get to the construction. Will these much-needed stalls be reinstalled? All small businesses are in need of any and all available parking.
A: Two marked stalls were restored on the makai side of Merchant, near Nuuanu, in 1999, says city Transportation Services Director Cheryl Soon.
However, parking will continue to be prohibited and no additional marked stalls will be provided near the Diamond Head-makai corner of Merchant and Nuuanu. That's to accommodate large vehicles turning from Nuuanu onto Merchant.
Soon said Merchant Street at Nuuanu is a T-intersection that has no Ewa-mauka corner. There is an Ewa-mauka corner at the T-intersection of Nuuanu Avenue and Marin Street.
"Parking on the Ewa side of Nuuanu Avenue mauka of Marin Street was restricted in 1994 to provide additional visibility for vehicles exiting Marin onto Nuuanu Avenue," Soon said. "An updated field check revealed that conditions have not changed and this parking restriction is still needed."
The city did add six new stalls this year on Nuuanu, between King and Merchant streets, she said, "which should provide more on-street parking opportunities in this area."
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