PUBLISHER TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRODUCT

Before you pick up your old phone book and throw it in the trash, think twice, once again we have a 'solid waste resource' that we can use! There are options and we owe it to ourselves and our Island to exercise them.

If you aren't sure, call the publisher.

AdVentures Publishing, for one, is working on a plan for recycling their phone directories. After meeting with Maui Recycling Group, their staff has

taken the next step. They have been talking with Hana Steel, Maui's Recycling Coordinator and Rubens Fonseca of Maui EKO to develop a  recycling alternative for their product.

The plan is to send the phone books to Maui EKO where they will be composted. What a simple solution and a fitting use for a product, which formerly lined our landfills!

This level of corporate responsibility is worth applauding. It is great to see local government and companies working together to preserve the beauty of Hawaii. I tip my hat to the folks at AdVentures, Maui EKO and County of Maui who are turning a great idea into reality.

Rick Woodford

Pukalani

September 16, 2004