Environment Articles

<h4>Poor air quality can affect children more than adults. Kids tend to be outdoors more, and their developing lungs are more vulnerable to pollutants. There are simple, everyday actions that kids can do to help keep our air clean.</h4>

The Green Infrastructure Framework offers a planning and design approach to grow communities in ways that simultaneously tend to neighborhoods, jobs and nature.

Join us on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, at the Johnson County Community College for a special event with internationally recognized speakers who will discuss emerging trends, climate change and action steps for the Kansas City region.

As our region enters ozone season, here's what you can do to help our air quality.

April 22 is Earth Day, the time of year when our thoughts turn to environmental issues. The MARC Solid Waste Management District (SWMD) encourages people in the Kansas City region not only to recycle more, but to recycle better!

Contamination is the term used by the recycling industry to describe anything in a recycling bin that shouldn’t be there. Contamination decreases the value of recyclables, increases processing costs, can be dangerous for workers and can cause your recyclables to be sent to the landfill. The average contamination rate among communities and businesses is currently about 25 percent. That means that roughly one in four items placed in a recycling bin is not actually recyclable.