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Where Trash Goes After Pickup in Great Bend, KS
People ask about it on the phone often enough that we wrote it down.
Household trash
What goes in your bin goes in the truck and then to the landfill.
On holidays, we shift the timing. The landfill is closed, so on those days we run until the truck is full and finish the rest the next day. You might be a day later than usual. You won't be skipped.
A Day on the Trash Route
We run the route five days a week and make about 2,000 pickups a month in Great Bend. The trash truck is a rear loader with a 3-yard hopper.
The commercial dumpsters we service for businesses around town go in the same truck and to the same landfill as household trash.
Cleanouts are different
We sort a junk removal first, because a lot of what we carry out of a garage isn't waste.
- We donate anything usable. Golden Belt Thrift Store and the Salvation Army both take furniture and household items, and we take ours to them.
- Metal goes to the scrap yard. Every piece, including what comes out of appliances.
- The rest goes to the landfill.
What we can't recycle
We tried a recycling service and stopped. Customers didn't want to pay for it separately, and we found ordinary trash mixed into the recycling bins. A contaminated load goes to the landfill.
It's something we'd like to do properly at some point. Right now we would lose money on it, so we don't offer it.
Electronics and televisions are the other gap. There's no special recycling for those around here that we can get to, so they go in as regular trash.
The wash water
When we clean your bin, we collect the water and take it to a waste treatment site. The only water left behind is a bit of overspray from washing the outside.
Call (620) 314-8908 with any questions.
