Activists and community members are attempting to shield a historic Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood from further industrialization as a recycling company, touting a new age of environmentalism, tries to wedge its way into a local warehouse.
Reworld, a global industrial waste company, wants to open a processing and recycling facility in Armourdale, a neighborhood near the Missouri border enclosed on all sides by a meander of the Kansas River, highways and an interstate.
In Reworld’s bid to the Unified Government of Wyandotte County’s planning commission for a special use permit, the company’s representatives argued that the facility would bring economic development to the area and redirect waste from aging landfills…