Jim Banigan has what you might call a recycler's dream job: He manages a scrap processing operation in Hawaii. Tough life-recycling in a tropical paradise that others can only dream about as a vacation destination. Appearances to the contrary, however, recycling in paradise is hard work- harder, in some respects, than recycling on the mainland, as Banigan can readily attest. For the past 12 years, Banigan has served as general manager of Hawaii Metal Recycling Co., the largest scrap metal recycling firm in the Hawaiian Islands. HMR was founded in June 1991 to address an abandoned-vehicle blight on Oahu and to help the state divert recyclable scrap materials from its critically tight landfill space. Every 10,000 tons of scrap metal recycled at HMR saves 2.2 million cubic feet of landfill space, according to Banigan.
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