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August 2022

Green Business Network:

Pratt Industries Tour

Tue, Aug 23, 2022 @ 8:30 am -
Tue, Aug 23, 2022 @ 10:00 am Pratt Industries, 1226 North Topping Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64120 United States

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Tour KC’s only manufacturer of 100% recycled cardboard packaging!

Tuesday, August 23 at 8:30 AM
Pratt Industries | 1226 N. Topping, KCMO 64110
Free for GBN Members and Kansas City Industrial Council Members | $15 Non-Members

Join the Kansas City Industrial Council and Bridging The Gap’s Green Business Network as we tour Pratt Industries’ KCMO converting facility, where the company’s 100% recycled corrugated cardboard sheets are converted and bundled into boxes for its clients.

Hear from company representatives about their commitment to recycling and caring for the environment – including a free waste assessment and recycling services offered to their clients through Pratt’s national Close The Loop Recycling Team.

Pratt Industries is America’s 5th largest corrugated packaging company and the world’s largest, privately-held 100% recycled paper and packaging company. Pratt Industries operates some 50 plants in about 20 states in the US and Mexico that span the entire cardboard manufacturing process – including recycling, milling, corrugating, and converting.

September 2022

Heartland Tree Alliance:

TreeKeepers, Fall 2022

Thu, Sep 08, 2022 @ 6:00 pm -
Thu, Oct 06, 2022 @ 8:30 pm Sylvester Powell Jr. Community Center, 6200 Martway St
Mission, KS 66202 United States

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Heartland Tree Alliance (HTA) is offering an in-person fall TreeKeepers course in Mission Kansas!

TreeKeepers is a hands-on educational course for anyone looking to increase their knowledge of trees or to become more involved in the community. These courses are great for gardeners, City employees, landscape providers, Master Gardeners, students and retirees.

All sessions will be held at the Sylvester Powell Community Center, 6200 Martway, Mission KS.

Class graduates will receive a TreeKeepers Handbook, certificate of completion and are encouraged to participate in HTA volunteer workdays!

If you have questions, please call Sarah Crowder at 816-561-1086 or email Sarah.Crowder@bridgingthegap.org and she’ll be happy to help!

If you cannot attend all the sessions, you can make them up at a later date (at no charge)!

AGENDA:

Thursday, September 8th: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Intro to Trees | Tree Identification
Thursday, September 15th: 6:00 – 8:30pm
Urban Soils | Basic Tree Biology
Thursday, September 22nd: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tree Planting | Tree Selection
Thursday, September 29th: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tree Pruning
Saturday, October 1st: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Pruning, Planting and Tree ID Field Day
(All tools provided by HTA)
Thursday, October 6th: 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tree Problems, Insects and Diseases