Last month, Kansas City, Kansas, planning commissioners delayed their vote on a permit for 30 days and told the company that it must do more to meet with the public. Members of the community are concerned about the Reworld waste processing plant.

Residents of a low-income Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood continue to organize in an effort to stop an industrial waste processing and recycling facility from opening next to their homes and near an elementary school.

A month ago, city planning commissioners delayed a vote on permitting the facility.

They told the company behind it to hold more meetings with the public and environmental groups that are concerned about the facility causing pollution and harming people’s health.

The company, New Jersey-based Reworld, has not done that in the w

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