Share your recommendations to polish the City's systems that manage our WASTE & MATERIALS
🌎 How to give feedback:
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The flow of materials in our community is often a one-way street to the dump – causing harm to our environment during resource extraction, producing GHG emissions during manufacturing, and contaminating our soils and producing methane when buried in landfills. This Climate Action Section focuses on transforming our waste and material systems into a circular economy, giving new life to materials after their first use through reuse, composting, and recycling.
Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan
Strategies to Improve Waste & Materials
W-1: Divert Waste from Landfills and Reduce Illegal Dumping
W-2: Divert organic waste from the landfill through composting
W-3: Reduce waste and embodied carbon by expanding the reuse and repair economy
To ask specific questions about the Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan, please contact the Office of Environmental Quality by phone at (816) 513-3452 or by Email to OEQ.
Phases
Summarize the Feedback Received
During this phase, a comprehensive summary of the feedback will be shared with residents and City staff across multiple departments. This process ensures that community input remains central to decision-making, allowing the City to make well-informed choices that reflect the needs and priorities of its residents.
📌 Many residents expressed frustration with the current two-bag trash limit, particularly for larger households, stating it leads to illegal dumping and excessive trash buildup. Suggestions included increasing bag limits for larger families or neighborhoods with higher blight issues and piloting such changes before major events like FIFA.
📌 Several respondents criticized inefficiencies in trash collection systems. Complaints included outdated trucks that don’t match the new trash containers missed pickups and litter caused by trash workers. Suggestions included consolidating trash placement on one side of the street to improve efficiency and staging trash on streets instead of alleys to prevent infrastructure damage.
📌 Recycling improvements were a recurring theme. Respondents called for more accessible recycling centers, extended operating hours, and curbside glass recycling to encourage participation. One respondent suggested collaborating with nonprofits to repurpose materials from evictions and remodels instead of sending them to landfills.
📌 Some respondents proposed providing resources to reduce waste, such as discounted or free trash compactors, compost bins, and education on waste reduction. Others emphasized the need for better respect and accountability from trash services, including cleaning up litter caused by workers.
📌 Overall, the most common concerns revolved around the two-bag limit, inefficiencies in trash collection, lack of accessible recycling options, and the need for systemic changes to reduce waste and improve service quality.