Cass County Sustainability Committee

Good news for folks who want to recycle glass in Raymore!  The City has been advised that Ripple Glass will place one of its containers in the Raymore Market Center (Price Chopper) parking lot on Friday, August 20.  Up until now, the nearest containers to Raymore have been located on School Road in Peculiar and in downtown Belton.  Glass is not currently collected in the City's curbside recycling program.  For more information about the Ripple Glass recycling program, visit www.rippleglasskc.com online.

Ripple Glass project (rippleglasskc.com) now provides four locations where you can recycle clear, brown and/or green glass containers in Cass County.  Just look for the purple bin open 24/7 at one of the following locations:

Harrisonville
Family Center — just west of the 291 highway exit off of 71 highway at 2601 Cantrell Road.  The purple bin is located in the north end of the parking lot. 

 Peculiar
Peculiar United Methodist Church —just north of the Ray-Pec Freshman Center recycling spot.  The address is 20521 S. School Road.  The purple bin is located in the southeast corner of the parking lot.

Pleasant Hill
The purple bin is at the Pleasant Hill Recycling Center, Corner of Taylor Street & Pine Street, near the Police Station in old downtown Pleasant Hill.

Belton
Parking lot behind the City Hall Annex Building, 520 Main Street—Access from Second Street. Look for the purple bin.

An Electronic Waste Collection Event will be held in Belton at East Avenue & Commercial on October 23, 2010 from 9 AM to noon.  More details are available by clicking here.

Pleasant Hill will host a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Event at the Cass County Fairgrounds, 308 W. Commercial in Pleasant Hill on August 28, 2010 from 8 AM to noon.  This is a full HHW collection event accepting all household products labeled as flammable, toxic, corrosive, or reactive. All hazardous products must include a signal word — DANGER, WARNING or CAUTION — on the label.

Hazardous products contain chemicals that are:

• Flammable or combustible: can be set on fire easily.
• Explosive or reactive: can detonate or explode through exposure to heat, sudden shock, or pressure.
• Corrosive: can destroy and cause burns to the skin and other living tissues.
• Toxic or poison: capable of causing injury or death through ingestion, inhalation, absorption or injection.

People who live in the following communities may drop off their household hazardous waste at no charge:

Unincorporated County membership in the Regional HHW Collection Program allows residents of communities with populations less than 500 to access program services at no charge.

*In Cass County this includes residents of West Line; Lake Annette; East Lynne; Gunn City; Strasburg; Baldwin Park; Riverview Estates; Loch Lloyd; Creighton

*In Clay County this includes residents of Mosby; Missouri City; Prathersville; Randolph; Birmingham; Holt; Oakview; Oakwood; Oakwood Park and Oaks.

*In Jackson County this includes residents of Levasy; Unity Village; Sibley and River Bend.

*In Platte County this includes residents of Tracy; Platte Woods; Farley; Northmoor; Houston Lake; Iatan and Ridgely.

Please click here to see information about Missouri Department of Natural Resources mercury drop off sites in Kansas City and northwest Missouri.

Volunteers Dawn Fricke, Loree Weber and Mary McDonough (top) and Patty Lear-Johnson (below) were on hand to assist recyclers at the Belton’s first mobile recycling event May 1 & 2. 

Recycling will be available in Belton the first full weekend of each month at Belton Memorial Park, East and Commercial.  The next recycling event will be Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.  For information about items that are accepted for recycling and to volunteer online to monitor at these recycling events, go to www.CassCountySustainability.com

The Cass County Sustainability Committee, in partnership with Belton Parks and Recreation and Town & Country Disposal, Inc., announces that, beginning May 1 and 2 (first full weekend in May), mobile recycling will be available in Belton at Memorial Park, East Avenue and Commercial.

This is an expansion of the mobile recycling program that began in March 2009 in the communities of Freeman (first full weekend each month), Peculiar (second full weekend), Drexel (third full weekend) and Garden City (fourth full weekend).  The initiation of this recycling program was made possible through a Mid-America Regional Council-Solid Waste Management District (MARC-SWMD) 2009 grant award.

The Belton recycling bins will be available for recyclers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday the first full weekend of each month.  Recycling will be open regardless of inclement weather or holidays.  As with the recycling events in the other communities, community volunteers will be on hand to provide recycling information to recyclers.  If you are available to volunteer, please call 318-1310 to be placed on a volunteer list for contact.

Recyclable materials do NOT need to be sorted.  They will be commingled for sorting later at Town & Country Disposal, Inc.’s single stream sorting facility in Harrisonville.

To recycle:
All food, juice, milk, and soap containers must be rinsed.
Remove lids from containers (recycle lids if they have recycling symbol).
Flatten all cardboard containers.

Accepted materials include:
• Aluminum and Steel (tin) Cans
• Newspaper
• Office Paper and Junk Mail
• Shredded Paper IN PAPER BAGS
• Paperboard (cereal boxes, etc)
• Corrugated Cardboard (flattened)
• Magazines and Catalogs
• Telephone books
• Paperback and Hardback books
• Plastics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

NO PLASTIC BAGS or STYROFOAM OF ANY KIND (even if recycling symbol is on item)
NO GLASS—recycle glass at the Ripple Glass container (520 Main St., Belton)
NO household hazardous material.
NO containers from automotive projects or acids will be accepted.