Recycling in Kansas
Where to recycle, donate or get rid of things in 22 cities and towns across Kansas. Pick your city, or search for your item. We also pick up anywhere in the state.
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Crawford County
Douglas County
- Lawrence11
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- Hays9
Finney County
Ford County
Geary County
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Johnson County
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Lyon County
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Saline County
- Salina11
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- Topeka10
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Kansas rules
- Kansas charges an excise tax of 25 cents on each new vehicle tire sold at retail (inner tubes excluded), including new tires on a vehicle sold at retail for the first time. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424d: Tax on new tire sales (opens in new tab)
- The buyer pays the 25-cent new tire tax; the retailer collects it. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424d: Tax on new tire sales (opens in new tab)
- The new tire tax goes to the state waste tire management fund. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424d: Tax on new tire sales (opens in new tab)
More Kansas rules (38)
- The waste tire management fund pays for cleaning up illegal tire piles and for grants covering up to 50% of the cost of tire recycling projects and of tire-derived products bought by local governments and schools. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424g: Waste tire management fund (opens in new tab)
- Waste tires may not be put in a landfill as a method of final disposal in Kansas, except as KDHE allows by rule or permit. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424a: Waste tires, restrictions on disposal (opens in new tab)
- KDHE may allow processed (cut or shredded) waste tires in permitted municipal solid waste landfills and tire monofills, and small numbers of whole tires mixed in with other trash when pulling them out would be hazardous. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424a: Waste tires, restrictions on disposal (opens in new tab)
- You may hand waste tires over only to a KDHE-permitted tire business, someone who will put them to a beneficial use, or a tire retailer that collects waste tires from the public in the ordinary course of business. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424a: Waste tires, restrictions on disposal (opens in new tab)
- Anyone who arranges for someone else to collect or haul waste tires must use a hauler that holds a KDHE waste tire permit. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424b: Waste tire permits and standards (opens in new tab)
- A pile of more than 50 waste tires is an illegal waste tire accumulation unless it is at a permitted or exempt site. Source: K.S.A. 65-3424: Waste tire definitions (opens in new tab)
- Each Kansas county (or a designated city) must submit a solid waste management plan to KDHE; counties may join regional plans. Source: K.S.A. 65-3405: County solid waste management plans (opens in new tab)
- County solid waste plans must consider specific programs for wastes such as lead-acid batteries, household hazardous waste, white goods containing CFCs, motor oil and consumer electronics. The law requires consideration, not a program. Source: K.S.A. 65-3405: County solid waste management plans (opens in new tab)
- KDHE may coordinate voluntary hazardous waste collection programs and encourages local governments to run household hazardous waste collection, alone or jointly. Source: K.S.A. 65-3460: Voluntary local hazardous waste programs; grants (opens in new tab)
- KDHE may give grants to help pay for local hazardous waste collection programs, from the state hazardous waste collection fund. Source: K.S.A. 65-3460: Voluntary local hazardous waste programs; grants (opens in new tab)
- Part of a hazardous waste treatment fee paid to KDHE by the Ash Grove cement plant in Chanute funds grants to HHW facilities. Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- Kansas has 45 permanent permitted HHW facilities plus 39 satellite locations (SFY 2024). Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE says HHW disposal options are available in 93 Kansas counties, covering over 95% of the population; a few counties have none. Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- Latex paint is most of what Kansas HHW facilities collect. Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE reports that most reused HHW is latex paint, which HHW facilities offer to customers at a fraction of the cost of new paint. Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- Under K.A.R. 28-29-1102, HHW facilities may send latex paint to a permitted municipal landfill only if it is solidified or still in its original container of five gallons or less. Source: KDHE: Solid Waste Statutes and Regulations (K.S.A. 65-34 and K.A.R. 28-29 compilation, PDF) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE tells the public to contact their local household hazardous waste facility about recycling and safe disposal of lithium-ion batteries. Source: KDHE: Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) Disposal (opens in new tab)
- KDHE says not to remove built-in rechargeable batteries; if a battery does not come out easily, recycle the whole device. Source: KDHE: Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) Disposal (opens in new tab)
- KDHE says to tape battery terminals or bag each battery separately before storage or transport. Source: KDHE: Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) Disposal (opens in new tab)
- Not every Kansas HHW program takes lithium-ion batteries: nine took none in SFY 2024. Source: KDHE: Kansas Household Hazardous Waste Program SFY 2024 Report to the Legislature (PDF) (opens in new tab)
- Kansas has no law or regulation specifically covering e-waste disposal. Source: KDHE BWM Policy 05-02: Electronic Waste Management in Kansas Landfills (PDF, revised April 22, 2008) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE ranks e-waste options as reuse first, then recycling, then disposal in a permitted municipal solid waste landfill, which is allowed for all generators. Source: KDHE BWM Policy 05-02: Electronic Waste Management in Kansas Landfills (PDF, revised April 22, 2008) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE counts televisions as e-waste. Source: KDHE BWM Policy 05-02: Electronic Waste Management in Kansas Landfills (PDF, revised April 22, 2008) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE says personal computers (CPUs, monitors, keyboards, peripherals) are the largest share of e-waste. Source: KDHE BWM Policy 05-02: Electronic Waste Management in Kansas Landfills (PDF, revised April 22, 2008) (opens in new tab)
- Some manufacturers and retailers run e-waste take-back programs, but KDHE notes these differ greatly in how they work and where they are available. Source: KDHE BWM Policy 05-02: Electronic Waste Management in Kansas Landfills (PDF, revised April 22, 2008) (opens in new tab)
- Construction and demolition landfills may not take TVs, computer monitors or other computer components as "furniture and appliances" (K.A.R. 28-29-300). Source: KDHE: Solid Waste Statutes and Regulations (K.S.A. 65-34 and K.A.R. 28-29 compilation, PDF) (opens in new tab)
- Kansas allows white goods in landfills but encourages repair, resale or recycling instead. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE counts refrigerators and freezers as white goods; Kansas allows them in landfills but encourages recycling. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE counts clothes washers and dryers as white goods; Kansas allows them in landfills but encourages recycling. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- KDHE counts microwave ovens as white goods. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- Refrigerant (CFCs and HCFCs) must be removed from cooling appliances such as refrigerators before they are recycled or disposed of, under federal rules. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- Trash haulers may pick up appliances at the curb, sometimes for a fee; otherwise people can take them to collection centers, recycling centers, scrap dealers and landfills. Source: KDHE Technical Guidance SW-1995-G2: White Goods Storage, Recycling and Disposal (PDF, revised 8/02) (opens in new tab)
- Appliances can go to a construction and demolition landfill only after ozone-depleting CFCs have been removed. Source: K.S.A. 65-3402: Solid waste definitions (opens in new tab)
- To sell regulated (mostly nonferrous) scrap metal to a Kansas scrap dealer, you must show ID and give your name, address, sex and date of birth, and sign a statement. Source: K.S.A. 50-6,110: Selling regulated scrap metal; information required (opens in new tab)
- Regulated scrap metal is scrap priced mainly on nonferrous content such as aluminum (except food and beverage containers), copper, brass and lead, plus catalytic converters. Source: K.S.A. 50-6,109: Scrap metal theft reduction act; definitions (opens in new tab)
- Kansas scrap dealers may not buy regulated scrap metal from a minor unless a parent or guardian is present. Source: K.S.A. 50-6,111: Unlawful acts by scrap metal dealers (opens in new tab)
- PaintCare runs paint recycling programs only in states with paint stewardship laws; Kansas is not on its list of states. Source: PaintCare: Paint recycling (state list) (opens in new tab)
- The Mattress Recycling Council runs statewide mattress recycling only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island; Kansas has no state mattress program. Source: Mattress Recycling Council (opens in new tab)