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Reworld, a global industrial waste company, wants to open a processing and recycling facility in Armourdale, a neighborhood near the Missouri border.

In a new partnership with a company that provides high-tech garbage cans that turn food into compost, Kansas City will compost hundreds of thousands of tons of food waste for use on gardens and to grow food. Kansas Citians can now bring their food scraps to one of 50 bins around the city.

Re.Use.Full not only provides drop off points where Kansas Citians can donate their gently used goods, but it also sponsors free, pop-up repair shops with volunteers who will fix your appliances and other household goods so they don’t go into a landfill.

Kansas City trash and recycling pickup was canceled for days because of last weekend’s snow and ice. While crews focus on treating roads, here’s the latest on trash pickup.

Why throw your Christmas tree in the dump when you can “treecycle” it? Here’s how and where you can make the most of your unwanted trees after the holidays.

Ford County, Kansas, filed suit against a host of manufacturers and a leading chemicals trade group last month, claiming the companies lied about the recyclability of plastic.

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities can't be recycled.

With bigger trash carts, Kansas City is trying to put a lid on litter and dumping problems. But with more trash than ever going to landfills, the city has a long way to go in educating people about recycling and composting.

Starting last year when rumors of the proposed project in south Kansas City began circulating, Missouri state Rep. Mike Haffner has pushed legislation meant to give surrounding communities more sway over landfills.

Instead of sending trees and broken lights to the local landfill, here’s how and where you can recycle those unwanted holiday wares.

The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic bags in just four months.

Kansas City is on track to break its homicide record this year, and a rise in gun violence has caused another disturbing trend: Hundreds of people every year are shot and survive. They're often left with severe physical and mental injuries. Plus: Kansas City and other places in the Midwest are slow to embrace composting.