News & Events
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:
| 2010 HHW Participating Communities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Belton | Kansas City, Mo. | Pleasant Hill |
| Blue Springs | Kearney | Pleasant Valley |
| Claycomo | Lake Lotawana | Raymore |
| Cleveland | Lake Tapawingo | Riverside |
| Excelsior Springs | Lake Waukomis | Smithville |
| Garden City | Lake Winnebago | Sugar Creek |
| Gladstone | Lee's Summit | Weatherby Lake |
| Glenaire | Liberty | Weston |
| Grain Valley | Lone Jack | Unincorporated Cass County* |
| Greenwood | Oak Grove | Unincorporated Clay County* |
| Harrisonville | Parkville |
Unincorporated Jackson County* |
| Independence | Platte City | Unincorporated Platte County* |
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.
When the Cass County Sustainability Committee set out in March last year to encourage recycling in four Cass towns (Drexel, Freeman. Garden City, and Peculiar) that did not offer curbside recycling, we estimated we could keep 90 tons of material from our landfills. Well, we achieved 83.24 tons, and received an award from The Solid Waste Management District for our good work. This letter is to share the honor and thank all of the county residents who helped earn it during 2009. The committee will stay involved in the four towns in 2010. Our goals are to do more recycling and to keep our county green.
If you would like to help with anything, from ideas to monitoring at the sites, please volunteer on our web site at
www.casscountysustainability.com/volunteer.php.
Just remember: Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen.
Thanks to all the volunteers below. They made it happen! Sorry if I left anyone out. And a big thank you to all those who continue to bring materials to recycle.
Drexel:
Susie Hatten (Captain), David Alburty, Craig Arnold, Julie Cale, JoAnn Cawby & family, Juanita Chrisman, Brian Cumpton, Julie Dillon, June Gillogly & family, Susie Hatten family, Debbie Kasper, Billy McKenzie & family, Carol Pranulis, Bob & Jennifer Strange & family, John Swezey
Freeman:
Craig Holcomb (Captain), Susan Atchley, Larry Campbell, Laurin Carver, Naomi Cook, Gina & Caitlin Eberly, Barb Foreman, Earl & Donna Geivett., Debbie & Allie Geivett, Toni Lee Gould, Vesta Griffith, Dean & Carolyn Guy, Vergil & Karen Heston, Marie & Lucas Holcomb, Bob & Joan Jefferson, Sarah Lawson, Don, Natalie & Elliott Madison, Bob, Jeannette, & Erik Nance. Mike Noland, Randy & Laurie Oakes, Dennis & Will O’Connell, Joyce Olds, Sandra Phifer, Lisa Reed, Rob & April Schoenberg, Phyllis Sheaks, Bob & Doris Sherrick, Sasha, Nastya, & Rachel Sinclair, Loree Weber, Van Wiskur,
Garden City:
Julie Dillon (Captain), Jeri Albin, Craig Arnold, Jeannette Bartle, Julie Cale, Brennan Cardwell, Michelle Chamber, Jason Dillon, Julie Eberhart, Tim & Janie Elliott, Jodie Gilbert, Crystal Hembree, Marie Hoenshell, Scott Holtwick, Linda Jones, Pat Koelling, Gwen McMahn, Linda & Mack McNeil, Jan Miller, Ginny & Kevin Patterson, Rebecca Sims, Jennifer Smith, Maurice Snare, Malinda Steckley, Lesley Street, Clara Taber, Paula Weisner, Jennifer White, Selina & Jason Wilson, Garden City Cub Scouts Pack 244
Peculiar:
Mary Kamrath, Thelma & Gary Palmer, Doris Sherrick, Paula Weisner (Co-captains), Cynthia Arnold, Denise Ashley-Cohen, Bobby, Cheyenne, & Logan Balentine, Kelly Benbow, Alexandra & Jesyka Bixlor, Tina Bussard, Cass County Drug Court, Kevin & Patricia Chaney, Jeanette Chapman, Natalie Conner, Elana Conner, Wayne Daugherty, Paula Diaz, Maurice & Patricia Devolder, Lori Easton, Michael Easton, Richard & Sandy Eisler, Matt Everett, Mark Ever, Chris Figge, Pete Fobes, Jennie Fowler, Dawn E. Fricke, Donna Clark Fuller, Lori Gaston, Laura Goodwin, Brenda Goulding, Edward Henuber, Daniel & Pam Henuber, Tom Kamrath, Jenn Kilpatrick, Alexandria, Sara &, Scott Kranz. Debbie Lehman, Karen Magee, Neca Mills, Chuck Morrison, Rachel Murphy, Julie Noonan, Randy Norcross, Linda Portman, Tim Redding, Danielle Reichard, Laura Roberts, Gail Schmidt, Phyllis Sheaks, Bob Sherrick, Rob Sherrick, Dave Shuck, Brian M. Smith, Matthew Smith, Elizabeth Spills, Kathy Squires, Shauna Stephenson, Lori Stewart, Reilly Stewart, Sue Thornton, Clifford Wall, Delores & Raymond Watts, Lisa Weigel, Fran Whited.
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