City of Kansas City, Mo., offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 27-28. The 311 Call Center, a division of the City Managers Office, will also be closed. During the City-observed holiday, trash and recycling collection will be delayed one day. The trash and recycling schedule for Thanksgiving will be as follows: Thanksgiving Holiday Residents who usually have Thursday trash and recycling collection will receive this service Friday, Nov. 28. Residents who usually have Friday collection will receive this service Saturday, Nov. 29. In addition, the Household Hazardous Waste Facility will be open Monday, Nov. 24 through Wednesday, Nov. 26 and closed Thursday, Nov. 27 through Tuesday, Dec. 2 in observance of the holiday. Additionally, Kansas Citys Hard to Recycle Items Event, originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 15 will be held on Saturday, Nov. 22. The event, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1320 Truman Road, allows Kansas Citians to dispose of recyclable items free of charge. The Nov. 22 event will include a number of community partners that specialize in collecting hard-to-recycle materials: • Surplus Exchange: cell phones, printers, scanners, modems, CD drives, cables, keyboards, mice, televisions, VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, cameras, game players and joysticks, telephones, pagers, answering machines, 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. • The Salvation Army: Clothing, accessories, books, footwear, toys, linens, house wares, small appliances (all in good working condition). • Habitat for Humanity Kansas City: Construction salvage, tools, building materials • 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, plastic bags; household batteries • RevolveKC: Bicycles • Pink Hill Construction & Demolition Landfill: roofing shingles, rubble, bricks, concrete • Avenue of Life: Mattresses • ProShred: Off-site document shredding only (documents must be in bags or boxes); white Styrofoam (block or lose, preferably in bags) The Kansas City Public Schools/ MARC Solid Waste Management District will also participate and provide information on recycling and reducing household waste. For more information about solid waste collection services, visit kcmo.org/trash or call the 311 Action Center at 311 or 816-513-1313. Media inquiries about trash and recycling should be directed to Sean Demory, Public Works Department, at 816-513-0059.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:01:26 +0000
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