Wahiawā Convenience Center
The one city convenience center on Oʻahu that takes no green waste, on Wilikina Drive in Wahiawā.
The Wahiawā Convenience Center, at 71-129 Wilikina Drive, keeps hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Christmas and New Year’s Day. It is the only one of the seven city centers that turns away green waste, and with it Christmas trees. The city’s contracted composting site, Hawaiian Earth Recycling, is on the same road. The Wahiawā center dates from 1992.
Serves: Honolulu trash pickup and drop-off rules.
What this center takes and what it does not
Bring household rubbish, bulky items such as furniture, mattresses and carpet, large appliances, passenger and light-truck tires, household gas cylinders, home fire extinguishers, car batteries, taped rechargeable batteries and e-waste. Unlike the Kapolei, Lāʻie, Waimānalo, Waipahu, Waiʻanae and ʻEwa Beach centers, Wahiawā has no green waste bin, so yard trimmings and Christmas trees go elsewhere. Food scraps are not accepted, and phones and GPS units do not belong in its e-waste bin.
About this site
Wahiawā’s center opened in 1992. For more than three decades it was the newest city convenience center, until the Kapolei center opened in 2023.
For green waste, the city’s drop-off list points to Hawaiian Earth Recycling, its contracted composting site at 65-1101 Wilikina Drive, phone (808) 682-5895. It is open Monday to Saturday 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to noon. A trip there counts toward the same two-loads-a-day limit as the city’s own sites.
Rules at every Honolulu convenience center
Entry is for residents only and costs nothing at all seven city centers, which share one set of load and vehicle rules. The Honolulu Environmental Services listing sets them out.
- Type
- Convenience center
- State
- Hawaii
- City
- Honolulu
- Address
- 71-129 Wilikina Drive, Wahiawā, 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); 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; green waste and Christmas trees
- Run by
- City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services (ENV)
- Phone
- (808) 621-3648
- Official website
- honolulu.gov
- Primary source
- honolulu.gov
- Last verified
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