The State of Hawaii has enacted the Hawaii Electronic Waste and Television Recycling and Recovery Law. The law requires manufacturers of covered electronic devices (consumer computers, monitors and printers) and televisions, whose products are sold in the state, to register and participate in a recycling program. For general information, please see the Hawaii Department of Health’s Electronic Device and Television Recycling Law website.
Hawaii consumers can drop off covered electronic devices and televisions at collection sites listed here.
Business Development Director
RLGA
Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.
Director of Compliance Services
RLG
Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team. She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law. Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.