A Million Recycled Cans Today at Age 15 (Code Green)
Recycling and Energy, Million Can Prodigy. The host for this show is Howard Wiig. The guest is Genshu Price.
At the ripe age of 14, Genshu Price launched a recycling revolution. He’s generating funds to pay tuition for kids older than himself. He’s branching into other fields of giving. The sky’s the limit.
If you have doubts about the HI-5 bottle deposit program, consider this: On O’ahu, before HI-5 went into effect in January 2005, the landfill diversion rate was 41 percent, according to the state Department of Health’s Office on Solid Waste Management. In other words, about three-fifths of all of O’ahu’s municipal solid waste went to the Waimanalo Gulch landfill.
Since then, more than 4.2 billion beverage containers have been recycled through the program, the waste office says, which helped increase the overall diversion rate to 72 percent. It’s not just HI-5, of course. The diversion rate includes many other recycled materials, plus waste sent to H-Power, the incinerator that turns trash into electricity and generates about 6 to 8 percent of O’ahu’s power.
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