RRR Recycle

It’s a recycling center on O’ahu, so you know you will be competing for trash cans with people that collect HI-​5 for a living. This center is conveniently placed along Kapahulu, but the entrance and exit to the parking lot are not well marked and would be difficult if traffic were busy. The staff was not friendly.
If there are rules and procedures for a business, they must be clearly marked, not yelled at a customer.
The main benefit of RRR over Reynolds is the computer weighing and money dispensing system. This makes redemption much faster and simpler, especially when other customers have more than a dozen full cans. It’s filthy, so be prepared to get a little dirty.

This place is awesome! Lots of parking and they sort and do everything for you. You just need to drive up and bring everything you have and they take care of the rest! Service is quick here!

I don’t recycle often, but when I do I usually come to this one because it’s convenient, there’s always lots of parking, and the staff is usually pretty friendly. It is located in the paid parking lot right across the street from Uncle Bo’s in Kapahulu and its in a little shaded area in the corner.
The only reason why I’m taking a star away is because of the cleanliness, which I understand is out of their control considering what we’re working with here. This place is definitely cleaner than some other recycling places, but it could also use some work since I always leave here feeling like I need to go home and shower. Everything considered though, if you live in the area and are looking for a place to recycle that has pretty good hours, even on the weekends (they’re open till 3:30 Saturday and Sunday!) this is a good place to go.
Be careful when parking your car here though, parts of the lot are paved unevenly and sadly I’ve had someone hit my car here :(

Watch out for this business because they’ll take some of the money owed to you. I went yesterday, June 14, after the Kamehameha Parade. It was only my second time going and I had lots of bottles and my mom gave me lots of bottles and cans that filled up the entire trunk and the whole back seat of the car. I over filled one of their buckets with small plastic bottles and half filled another bucket with large plastic bottles. I also filled a bucket with glass bottles and half a bucket with cans. One guy separated my glass bottles for me so there was a fifth bucket involved somewhere. Then they tell me I get $ 14 for all that! I was thinking it seemed very low compared to the other time I went there but I had no idea how much I was supposed to get. So I take the $ 14 and change and someone tells the girl working there that there’s more so I get another $ 7 and change. But what’s strange is they have me sign two receipts and one says $ 48 which I accidentally signed, so I told the girl I signed the wrong one and she says «no worries.» They probably pocket that $ 48 because my mom told me the amount of stuff she gave me was worth at least $ 30 every time she goes. I’m pro environment but I’ll never recycle again! Not worth it!!! And these people working look like ex-​homeless and they wonder why they can’t get a descent job??? They need a clue so here it is, when you rip off customers and they don’t come back then your business is closed and no moa job. Get it?

We usually go to Kapiolani but its close today due to construction. So we went to kapahulu. Oh boi! This one is wwaaaaayyy better!
—Parking is huge and no lines at all!
—its open! Less noise compare to kapiolani branch.
—high tech! They have touch screen! Which made it faster! Felt like in-​n-​out recycle center :-)
—i think we got more $$$ here (i think)
highly recommend!

This is the only recycle center I go to besides the machines under the state Capitol building (which consistently breaks down). I’ve been here maybe 7 times and almost every time the young lady working here helps me with my bottles and cans. She is probably the nicest person in the whole state to be honest. She jokes, makes small talk, helps me sort the things and even takes the caps off for me since I come with like four bags of goods. The other workers on the other hand tend to ignore me and pretend I don’t exist. Straight out of his mouth he said if ur a girl ur in luck but if not ur on your own (in regards to helping u sort). Helping out girls by all means is nice of u and the right thing to do but y not just help everyone that comes to recycle and not make doing a good deed exclusive…
Anyways, this location works fast and uses a scale to measure everything. The receipt is itemized and all u do is sign off on it. They want all the caps off the bottles and recently they require the glass bottles to be sorted by color (green, brown, clear). There is always parking in the lot but beware of the potholes and uneven surfaces. Also I’ve actually witnessed people being overprotective over their cans here. «That’s my can!!!» said a lady when a homeless (ya they come here too) picked up her can on the ground.

I don’t consider myself a tree-​hugger but I do care about planet earth. I want to do my part to keep this spinning ball from becoming the post-​apocalyptic dump that Hollywood likes to envision (think Wall-​E and T4). I know my recycling won’t do much to save the penguins from their melting glaciers or forests from burning up but at least I can feel good about myself.
Not far from my habitat is RRR Recycling Center. I like how friendly they are. Inside, it’s like any recycling centers — sticky ground, confused buzzing bees, loud clashes of metal cans and glass, and lots of dirty recyclables.
What sets this center from others? Even though it’s not the closest recycling center to me, I like how they take pretty much every recyclable. Steel cans that are normally rejected or bottles without a 5 on bottom or other containers that have no CRV value — they’ll take. I like that. Whether I get money for it is not an issue. I just want to get it recycled! Also, I like how they give an itemized receipt so that handful of change they give you is completely justified.
Nonetheless, I wish more people would recycle (and get paid for it) — here or elsewhere!

very unreliable hours and schedule. you cant even call to verify, so u end up loading up your vehicle with recyclables and then cannot drop off because they are closed when everything on their site and their phone recording says they are open. so u end up with stinky car for days until you can make the time to go back. i will be looking for alternate vendor; forget RRR!!! i will say the locations are convenient, if u can ever find someone there!

Every recycle place pretty much stinks, but the key is to get fast service and leave the premises as soon as possible.
The guys that work there are efficient and after a couple of minutes later, my money is coming out from an automated machine. It’s quick, it’s easy and most importantly it encourages me to come back.
The parking is in abundance and I just want to recycle and help out the environment, so really I don’t care for the prices. I want to make sure that I’m contributing and doing my part by recycling.
The recycling center is not hard to miss as it’s directly across from Zippy’s on Kapahulu.
Happy recycling!

Unilocal does it again! I was looking for an alternative to our former recycle place on Waialae Ave. which was a real PAIN due to the limited parking and unpleasant staff, etc. Checked out Unilocal this Saturday and headed down to RRR Recycle on Kapahulu.
As previous reviews stated this facility is very good. Plenty of parking and space to unload and sort your recyclables. Staff was very assistive and made the entire process much more pleasurable.
Another nice thing is that the wide open lot affords lots of airflow and tradewinds keeping the expected aroma and flying insects in check!
If you go there it helps to pre-​sort you wares: Aluminum cans, plastic HI5 (must remove caps), beer bottles by color (brown, green and clear). Other recycle glass such as wine bottles, mayo jars etc. can all be combined.
My wife and I drove in with a truck full of cans and bottles. We were out of there PDQ with cash in hand. Check it out. RRR on Kapahulu is worth the visit.

Rating: 3.5÷5
Date (s) visited: 8÷28÷2011, and many times before.
Service: ³⁄₅
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅
Price: ³⁄₅
Parking: ⁴⁄₅
Service:
Never had a problem at this location. They have a neat system of paying out customer’s. The employees probably never have to touch money, due to their disbursing machines for coins and dollar bills.
Atmosphere:
I like the convenience of its location, and that it provides a covered area to separate recyclable items.
Price:
Standard, I guess. I’m just happy to get the cans, glass and plastics out of my house and receive some money for it.
Parking:
Another big plus about this place. I’ve never had problem.

Just so everyone knows there closed on Weds. the signs at this location are wrong about weds. cause I love walikg with 2 big bags of cans to this locations awesomeness!

I dread the times when I have to take my bottles and cans in for recycling. I dread it so much that I only do it once a year or until all my bottles/​cans take up to much space outside. Recycling usually means having to rebag all the dirty, sticky, bug infested recycleables and taking them to some ghetto location where the workers barely speak English while waiting behind the Batu head selling cans to get his next fix. So usually I try to look around for the easiest most spot as possible.
Living in town allows me a bunch of different options but this time I choose a new spot for me called RRR Recycle on Kapahulu. Located in the big empty parking lot Directly across from Irifune and right next door to Side Street inn, I was stoked to fine tons and tons of easy to get to parking. For some reason all the usual redemption places I go to have the worst possible parking lots and most of them barely have parking at all. I guess they are too used to the crack heads carrying their big 33 gallon bag crushed cans that they don’t care about the people who have to drive. Anyways again this place choke choke parking. Probably 30 stalls. I think normally its for its used for paid parking for all the office building nearby.
So as I unloaded my 8 bags of recycleables and then started to sort. This place I should mention only has one dude working but things went pretty smoothly. They had about 50 big trash cans to sort all your things into. Even though there was only 1 guy working the lines were never more then 3 people long and everyones transaction went pretty quick (this was at 1pm on a Sunday). The sole worker was cool, friendly and talkative to all the «customers». The only thing he really mentioned to me was that I shouldn’t fill the 33 gal trash cans full of coors light bottles all the way because then it gets to heavy for him to lift.
After all of it was weighed and scaled I got my money from the automatic atm machine (super cool) and left. This place is definetly my new recycling center of the future if only because of the super easy parking, nice location and friendly workers.