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Popular recycling bin to be moved
Lease ending on self-serve location
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Mandy Grizzell, production manager at Sunflower Diversified Services, talks about recycling at a recent Great Bend Noon Kiwanis meeting. Items Sunflower accepts for recycling are pictured on the left side of the photo, including cans, glass bottles, soda bottles and laundry detergent bottles. Examples of items it will not accept are on the right, including egg cartons, books, food packaging and plastic items that aren’t stamped with a recycling triangle symbol and the number 1 or 2. - photo by Susan Thacker
Susan Thacker
Updated: May 19, 2023, 9:29 PM
Published: May 18, 2023, 3:35 PM
The self-serve recycling trailer at 18th and Williams Street in Great Bend was popular from the start but sponsors at Sunflower Diversified Services say it will have to move by the end of June.
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Area farmers invited to form Prescribed Burn Association
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Susan Thacker
Published: Apr 4, 2025, 8:26 PM
Wildfires are uncontrolled and destructive, but prescribed burning is an effective tool for landowners and managers needing to remove weeds and stop the advance of invasive species from pastures, said Veronica Coons at the Barton County Conservation District. However, but not everyone has access to the equipment, manpower and training for a successful burn. That’s where teamwork can help.
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