ACCOUNTABLE. KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES. TONIGHT, AN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP KANSAS CITY. IT’S PART OF OUR ONGOING DIRTY KANSAS CITY SERIES THAT’S TRIED TO MAKE SURE OUR REGION REMAINS PRESENTABLE.

Today I present to you a true story, and an amazing opportunity to participate in a meaningful and relatively easy program to earn a bench for your nonprofit. In November of 2023, a partnership ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Faith Temple Food Giveaway is known for giving back to the community. But over the last few months, they’ve also made it their mission to give back to the planet. Earlier ...

Benches made of recycled flat plastic were recently placed at the Jackson Branch of Audubon Regional Library and the Feliciana Veterans Memorial Park thanks to the efforts begun by the local food bank ...

Thanks to the massive recycling efforts of Elise Forrester, her Chantilly Highlands neighbors and a DAR chapter, her community has a new bench. And by participating in the NexTrex Challenge, they kept ...

Thanks to a bunch of shrink wrap and grocery bags, Export has a new bench near Giuseppe’s Pizzeria on Kennedy Avenue. It was created through the use of local recycled plastics, part of Rotary ...

The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic ...

Lafayette Middle School students are gathering up thousands of plastic bags that will be bundled, recycled and transformed into a bus bench. Lafayette Middle is pitting its homeroom classes against ...