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One of the two containers delivered to the site was already %2 full with computers collected at the Kea'au Recycling & Reuse Center over the past 6 months. Items were stored by CTCH Hilo High School Kiwins clown around at the end of their shift from 9am to 2pm. The second container was slightly over %2 full when the event ended. The first container was removed to the Conan Freight yard on Saturday. Both containers were weighed the following Monday before being delivered to Matson Navigation Co. at the Hilo port for transport to Tung Tai in Oakland, CA. Conan Freight helped out by removing the first container Saturday, as it would have disrupted County operations to wait until Monday. Matson Navigation Company was been extremely supportive offering special trans -ocean shipping rates for containers and Tung Tai, the East Bay computer recycler, waived the unit -recycling fee for this community service event. Partners & Outcomes: The first shift of volunteers, the Hilo High School Kiwins, did a fabulous job, but were totally beat at the end of their shift at 2pm. Other community members pitched in assistance during the peak hours until about 4pm. Unfortunately, the second shift of volunteers, the Big Island Pig Hunters, who were supposed to come form 12-5pm cancelled leaving the mop up and moving of tons of "reusable" items to a small and very tired crew. Folks from Recycle Hawai'i, the event organizer, Keep Hawaii Beautiful, and Community Technology Center Hawaii (CTCH) kept on schlepping monitors, CPUs, printer, etc. either back to CTCH's facilities or into the second container if not reusable. County of Hawaii, Recycling Coordinator closed the empty, cleaned -up conference room at 7:30pm. Other partners included Conan Freight Company, Matson Navigation Company, Tung Tai, and the Rotary Club. Container weights revealed that over 21 tons were recycled to the mainland recycler and approximately 4 tons diverted to re -use locally. 3