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5.4.2 General description. The community enterprise center distinguishes the Kea`au model from more traditional models of transfer stations and public convenience centers. Its foundation is apublic-private partnership between the County and one or more entities performing job training, education, technical assistance, resource development, and community service functions within the context of the NRC system. The community enterprise center honors three community practices or traditions. One, the widespread practice of scavenging at the local dump, is now prohibited by state regulation. Today's (also prohibited) practice of setting reusable items beside a rubbish chute rather than throwing them into the chute, is the last vestige of the old practice. The second practice is that of using resources where they are created, for the benefit of the local community. While most discazded items were not created in the community in which they aze discarded, reusable items maybe considered locally generated resources at the time of discazd. The community enterprise center houses a number of organizations and programs which generate community benefits from reusable items. Third, the community enterprise center encourages the local tradition of using items until no useful life remains. A community enterprise center has three components: 1) reuse center, 2) education center, and 3) cottage industry incubation center. Each of these is discussed in detail in the remaining subsections under Section 5.4. 5.4.2.1 Reuse center. The purpose of the reuse center is to divert reusable items from County disposal facilities, for the benefit of individual residents and the community as a whole. The reuse center provides a safe alternative to scavenging, once a common, accepted practice on the island, but prohibited today. The NRC reuse center concept grew out of the informal local custom of leaving reusable items beside a rubbish chute, to be claimed by other customers. 5.4.2.2 Education center. A NRC education center is primarily a community focal point for promoting, expanding, and improving community knowledge and practices with regard to integrated solid waste management, including recycling, local manufacture of value-added products from locally recycled materials, reuse, and waste minimization. 5.4.2.3 Cottage industry incubation center. The purpose of a cottage industry incubation center is to encourage and facilitate creation of small entrepreneurial enterprises utilizing locally recycled materials to produce value-added products for both on- and off-island markets. 5.4.3 Customers. 5.4.3.1 Reuse center. Any resident or business may donate acceptable items to the reuse center. Recipients of reusable items from the reuse center vary 33