Kapolei Convenience Center
Oʻahu’s newest city convenience center, in Kalaeloa beside the H-POWER waste-to-energy plant.
The Kapolei Convenience Center, at 91-184 Kaomi Loop, keeps the city’s standard hours: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, closed Christmas and New Year’s Day. It is the newest of the seven city convenience centers. The city called it the 10th municipal waste disposal facility on Oʻahu and the first new one since the Wahiawā Convenience Center was added in 1992. It was built to shorten the waits Leeward Coast residents faced at Waiʻanae, ʻEwa and Waipahu.
Serves: Honolulu trash pickup and drop-off rules.
What this center takes and what it does not
Kapolei takes household rubbish, bulky items such as furniture, mattresses and carpet, large appliances, green waste and whole natural Christmas trees, passenger and light-truck tires, household gas cylinders and home fire extinguishers, taped loose rechargeable batteries, car batteries and e-waste. Like the other centers except Wahiawā, it takes green waste. It does not take food scraps, and phones and GPS units do not go in its e-waste bin.
About this site
The city lists the center at a Kapolei address; its environmental assessment places it on three city-owned parcels in James Campbell Industrial Park in Kalaeloa, next to the city’s H-POWER waste-to-energy plant. It was built under ENV’s Leeward Base Yard and Convenience Center project. The project’s 2021 assessment planned eight bins, one for each type of waste, and said rubbish left here would be sorted and hauled next door to H-POWER for incineration. The same document planned the center mainly for the growing Kapolei area and for people who had used the ʻEwa, Waipahu and Waiʻanae centers.
Rules at every Honolulu convenience center
The seven city convenience centers are free and open to residents only, under one set of hours, load limits and vehicle rules. The full rules are on the Honolulu Environmental Services listing.
- Type
- Convenience center
- State
- Hawaii
- City
- Honolulu
- Address
- 91-184 Kaomi Loop, Kapolei, HI
- Hours
- Daily 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day
- Who can use it
- Residents only. Cars, SUVs, pickups and minivans only; trailers and larger rental vehicles are not allowed at convenience centers (their preapproval, through disposal@honolulu.gov, covers transfer stations only). Two loads a day across all city drop-off sites; cut material to under 6 feet and 60 pounds.
- Fees
- Free for residents
- Takes
- Household rubbish; bulky items such as furniture, mattresses and carpet; large appliances (two a month); green waste; whole natural Christmas trees without ornaments or flocking; passenger and light-truck tires (four a month); household propane, butane, MAPP and helium tanks and home fire extinguishers; loose lithium-ion, NiMH and NiCad batteries, terminals taped, in a clear plastic bag; car batteries; e-waste such as computers, laptops, tablets, TVs, printers, cords, routers, speakers and game consoles
- Does not take
- Food scraps; phones and GPS units in the e-waste bin
- Run by
- City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services (ENV)
- Phone
- (808) 260-2801
- Official website
- honolulu.gov
- Primary source
- honolulu.gov
- Last verified
Questions
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Sources
- City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services: Waste drop-off locations
- City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services: City e-waste drop bins
- City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Mayor: Mayor’s Highlights, November 2023
- City and County of Honolulu ENV Refuse Division: Final Environmental Assessment, Leeward Base Yard and Convenience Center Site Improvements
Sources and corrections
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