Northeast News
May 27, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri —This Saturday, May 30, Kansas City officials and the Kansas City School District will hold a free recycling collection in the Northeast.

The collection event is to help residents recycle items such as electronics, clothing, glass, batteries, bicycles, and mattresses. The free event will be held from 8 a.m. — noon Saturday, May 30, at 1320 Truman Road.

The event includes a number of community partners that specialize in collecting hard-to-recycle trash:

·Surplus Exchange: cell phones, printers, scanners, modems, CD drives, cables, keyboards, mice, televisions, VCRs, DVDplayers, camcorders, cameras, game players and joysticks, telephones, pagers, answeringmachines, typewriters, calculators, adding machines, fax machines, copiers. Monitors will be recycled at a cost of $10 per item; all other items will be recycled free of charge.

·Ripple Glass: All glass food and beverage containers of any color (including mason jars and glass drinking vessels such as wine glasses).

· City of Kansas City, Missouri: Waste tires, yard waste, batteries, used oils, paint, antifreeze, CLF light bulbs, automotive products, fertilizers, flammables, fuels, hazardous cleaners, hazardous liquids, household cleaners, lawn & garden products, pesticides, pool chemicals, solvents, thinners

·Disabled Veterans: Clothing, books, footwear, toys, linens, house wares, small appliances in good working conditions

· Bartliner: Plastic bags

· RevolveKC: Bicycles

· Avenue of Life: Mattresses, furniture, household appliances

· Document Resource: on-site document shredding (documents must be in bags or boxes, max. 5 boxes/person)

For more information about solid waste collection services, visit http://www.kcmo.org/trash or call the 311 Action Center at 311 or 816-513-1313.