Morris County Recycle Center and Transfer Station

14/11/2024

Come join our team!

08/11/2024

01/11/2024

Morris County Tax Payers:
Effective November 4th if you have household trash or demo/construction that will go on the tipping floor you must weigh on the scale. This tutorial will help you in understanding the process.
This will give us better control for weight management of the trailers leaving our facility.
For more complete information please visit our website at https://www.morriscountyks.org/solid-waste or contact Elisha at 620.767.5519.

28/10/2024

Morris County residents: As a reminder, when hauling to the Transfer Station your loads are to be covered. If they are not covered you could be subject to a $5.00 penalty at the Transfer Station. Fines for littering that can be issued by officers are much steeper. Please do your part in keeping our roads, waterways and county looking great. PLEASE DO BETTER!

12/09/2024

It's great to hear positive feed back. Thank you for recognizing the hard work of our department.

We just did the coolest thing at the hs!

Fred and Jeff are behind the scenes and help the community with the removal of cardboard.

They asked what’s for lunch?

It sounded delicious, so they grabbed a lunch to go!

Thanks morris county recycling center for your ongoing support of 417 morris county

15/08/2024

A hand saw was found in the in the limb pile at the Transfer Station this morning 8/15/2024. Please contact us at 620-767-5519 to identify.

15/08/2024

Morris County residents: A friendly reminder that we do not take the following:
*Styrofoam
*Plastic grocery type sacks
*Plastic wrap from around cases of water.
*Pet food sacks
*Greasy pizza boxes
The pictures are from our drop sites in Dwight and White City. Please share this info with area friends.

If you are ever in doubt of what can be recycled please give us a call at 620.767.5519

03/08/2024

Reminder: All limbs and brush go on the pile to the left when you turn in the north gate. If the pile is burning you can still us this section just get it as close as you feel safe. We have the equipment to push it in closer.
Thank you.

24/07/2024

The Noxious W**d office will be closed Thursday, July 24th from 8:00am-1:00pm for staff training. We apologize from any inconvenience this may cause.

02/07/2024

Have a safe holiday!

Adding a quick reminder of what we do not accept:

*Grocery sacks such as Ray's, DG or Walmart.
* Aluminum pans
* Animal feed sacks
* Plastic wrap such as packing of bottled water/pop

When visiting any of our locations please sort into the appropriate containers. If you have your items pre-sorted into the various categories you may leave them bagged.

Please do not hesitate in calling 620.767.5519 if you have questions concerning what can and cannot be accepted in Morris County.

20/05/2024

Please make note that the transfer station will have adjusted hours on Saturday and will not be open on Monday.
The recycle truck will not be picking up in Council Grove on the 27th but will pick up on the 29th and 31st.

07/05/2024

To clear up some confusion -we do NOT purchase aluminum beverage cans from individuals.

*We do accept aluminum and recycle them at our center.
* pie pans or cooking pans made of aluminum are not accepted. *Aluminum foil is also another item not accepted.

Please do not hesitate in asking if we recycle certain items. We can be reached at 620.767.5519 or comment here.

01/05/2024

Morris County Recycling

Where does our recycled materials go?

Cardboard – Goes to Green Bay Packaging Inc - Arkansas Kraft Division they use a combination of virgin wood chips and recycled Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) in their products. When they are running ideally, their machines consume 800 tons of recycled occ per day. Their final Kraft liner board contains approximately 45% recycled material. Here is a link to their Sustainability Goals. Sustainability at GBP - Green Bay Packaging

News Paper - This material goes to locations across the southwest and northeast of the United States and is in most cases turned into crate paper items such as egg crates for example.

Magazines - This material is sent to a mill locally in Kansas. It will be repurposed into similar items as newspaper, paper towels, egg cartons, and coffee filters.

Printer’s Mix/Coated Book and Office Mix - This material will end up in Oklahoma in most cases and can be turned into lesser paper items such as toilet paper.

Plastic #2 & #5 Color and Natural HDPE - These materials are sent north to the Wisconsin/Michigan areas. It is usually ground or melted and mixed with virgin HDPE to be remade and reused into its original purpose again.

Plastic #1 Pet - Pet is sent to Georgia and then used in the creation of some carpeting fibers.

Aluminum - Aluminum will be sent to Alabama or Kentucky in most cases and then reworked into aluminum cans once again.

Steel/Tin Cans - These will be sent to a few locations along the east coast states. They can be recycled into new food cans, automotive parts, beams and other steel items.

Pallets - We use these within our own operations if they are good and if unusable, they will be sent to a pallet company in Kansas. They will then rework them back to good pallets or grind them for other purposes.

Gaylords - These will be kept in house and used with various other vendors to facilitate getting loose materials to our warehouse when big roll offs do not make sense for such locations.

23/04/2024

NOW HIRING! Give us a call today.

19/04/2024

The following information is taken from the minutes of the county commissioners meeting on March 12th:

Travis Schweger, Noxious W**d & Waste Management Director, gave a report on the Noxious W**d and Waste Management Departments. Discussion was held regarding individuals hauling household trash to the Transfer Station and not having the trash tarped, covered, or secured in some fashion. There has been an increase in the amount of trash along the roadway and ditches on the east side of Council Grove towards the Transfer Station. This issue has been discussed several times over the past few years. The county has a policy in place that any vehicle that delivers trash to the Transfer Station and is found to not have their trash covered or secured appropriately will be charged an additional $5.00 fee. This policy will be enforced beginning April 1st, 2024. The Transfer Station will attempt to educate individuals regarding the policy over the next few weeks.

Please share this information with your friends and neighbors that this policy IS being enforced.

15/04/2024

As we are in full swing of cleaning up yards and mowing this is a reminder: There cannot be any trash bags left at the north yard. Bags must be emptied in the compost pile. There are compostable type bags that can be purchased if you wish.

Also any bagged grass clippings should NOT be left for your trash pick up. They also need to be brought out to the compost pile.

If you have any questions feel free to call us at 620.767.5519 or message us here.

04/04/2024

Dwight and White City residents: We have rearranged the drop sites and have put labels above each tub so that you can sort things appropriately. We are hoping this makes it easier for everyone. At our center we only take the following:
#1
#2
#2&5
Tin cans
Aluminum
Newspaper
Magazines ( please remove the mailing plastic cover)
Office waste paper
Cardboard flattened.
Small chit board which is considered your "pantry" type boxes.
A good rule of thumb to remember if you don't see a recycle symbol and the above items we don't accept them at Morris County. Other centers may indeed take these but we do not.

02/04/2024

Looking to add to our team. Please give us a call 620-767-5519 for questions and set up an interview time.