Green and Litter-free Events

Whether you’re hosting a family picnic, neighborhood block party or community festival, Keep Kansas City Beautiful (KKCB) can help you reduce waste and make your event environmentally friendly. Our Green & Litter-Free Events program provides recycling bins, bags and other resources to minimize waste and maximize your efforts. We also provide informative tools to educate and empower coordinators, sponsors, vendors, volunteers and attendees about their role in keeping your event clean and sustainable.

Last year, our program helped to recycle more than seven tons of material from 50 events, reaching more than 288,000 people throughout the Kansas City area.

To become a partner and host your own Green Event, simply follow our four easy steps below. For more information, please call 816- 561-1086 ext. 119 or consult KKCB’s Green Events Brochure -  KKCB - Green Event Brochure

Keep Kansas City Beautiful provides information and supplies including:

• Free initial consultation
• Five rent-free recycling bins ($7 each to rent after the first five)
• Five rent-free recycling bags ($.50 each to purchase after the first five)
• Green Event Planning Guide -  KKCB - Green Event Guide
  - Includes the Plan, Promote and Manage Guidelines for Green Event Coordinators, the Local Recycling Resource list.
• Green Event Marketing Tools
  • Small and Large Recycling Banners
  • Sample Press Releases (see Green Event Planning Guide)
  • Loudspeaker Announcements (see Green Event Planning Guide)
• Volunteer Vests
• Volunteer Work Gloves
• And more!

Reserve your recycling materials today!

Four Simple Steps to a Greener Event:

1.  Fill out and submit KKCB’s Green Event Materials Request Form -  KKCB - Green Event Materials Request form
   . Need help evaluating the recycling needs of your event? Please call us at 816-561-1086 ext. 102 or ext. 119. You can also e-mail Emily Miller at emily.miller@bridgingthegap.org or Joe Nickels at joe.nickel@bridgingthegap.org.
2. KKCB staff will confirm your request and, if necessary, contact you by phone to confirm payment. We will also send you our Green Event Educational Toolkit! The toolkit includes KKCB’s Green Event Planning Guide -  KKCB - Green Event Guide
   - which features our Plan, Promote, Manage guidelines for event coordinators. You will also receive KKCB’s Event Coordinator Procedures -  KKCB Event Coordinator Procedures
   . These documents provide exciting new ideas on how to make your event Green and Litter-Free as well as tips for coordinating your event.
3. Pick up reserved materials from one of our recycling center locations. We have separate North and South locations in the KC Metro area! Center hours of operation and maps to locate them are available here. Be sure to bring your Green Event Materials Request Form with you to guarantee a speedy and efficient pickup.
4. After the event, return rented materials to your preferred recycling center and fill out our Green Event Results & Evaluation Form -  KKCB - Green Event Results and Service Evaluation
   . Your evaluation helps us develop new community programs and measure the positive environmental impact of your recycling efforts!

It’s that easy! Now you can sit back and enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done and celebrate your part in reducing the solid waste in our environment.