Mark my words:

If the city cancels the recycling, it will NOT cancel the 6 cent fee per bottle.

There will be a lot of hemming and hawing about how there is some critical need ("rail", "homelessness", you fill in the blank), about how the taxpayers are already accustomed to paying it so no harm done to keep them paying it, yada yada yada. There will be some reporting about that - not much, everyone will b1tch a little bit, right-of-center will b1tch more, but then the Powers that run Hawaii will tell the reporters to heel and the story will fade away. 
And you & I will continue to pay the 6-cent fee per container even though there is no recycling program.
But wait, it gets better! A couple of elections hence, there will be a NEW "pressing need" (hurricane? Sewers?) and the Powers will in-fight how to use it. But you'll still pay.