The City of Great Bend’s City Wide Cleanup efforts start Friday, Sept. 8 and run through Sunday, Sept. 17. The City is teaming up with Sunflower Diversified Services Recycling Center at 5605 10th St. to offer the residents the opportunity to help keep the community clean. This is the second year in a row the City of Great Bend has held a city-wide clean up event.
Other communities around the county have also held cleanup days to rid the neighborhoods of unsightly rubbish and to connect volunteers with those unable to dispose of their unwanted items. Last year’s cleanup efforts in Great Bend focused on volunteers connected with Great Bend’s Damn It, Do It program. The haul from Great Bend’s cleanup filled over 50 construction containers with refuse.
Construction roll-off dumpsters will be on site at 5605 10th St., allowing citizens to haul their tires, metal, mattresses, and appliances. No household hazardous waste will be accepted. Items will be allowed to be dumped at the specified hours.
Last year’s citywide cleanup cost nearly $20,000 but netted 51 construction dumpsters full of junk. This included 59 tons of solid waste, almost five tons of mattresses, and 75 tons of tires. For reference, that’s about 6,000-7,000 tires at an average of 15-25 pounds per tire and around 100 mattresses at 100 pounds each.
Residents are reminded to not expect this to be an annual event though. “Let’s take advantage of this opportunity and let’s get things cleaned up as we can,” City Administrator Brandon Anderson said.
Recyclable items will also be accepted in the appropriate receptacles. “We are partnering with Sunflower Diversified,” Anderson said. “So there will be a recycling component to what we’re doing.”
The hours will be:
• Friday, Sept. 8 – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, Sept. 9 – 1-5 p.m.
• Sunday, Sept. 10 – 1-5 p.m.
• Monday through Friday, Sept. 11-15 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Saturday, Sept. 16 – 1-5 p.m.
• Sunday, Sept. 17 – 1-5 p.m.
Recycle items include:
• Office paper (Pastel paper, envelopes, mailings, file folders, Carbonless forms, white ledger paper, typing & copy paper, adding machine tape, computer paper, Green/blue/orange bar paper, white form feed paper, shredded paper)
• Magazines (All slick paper)
• Newspapers (Published newspapers)
• Corrugated cardboard (Heavier cardboard – three layers of paper that include an inside and outside liner. Shipping boxes, diaper boxes, Moving, TV and appliance boxes. Brown paper bags)
• Tin cans (Vegetable cans, soup cans (Rinsed))
• Plastic bottles #1 (Plastic pop & juice bottles)
• Plastic bottles #2 (Laundry detergent bottles, Coffee containers)
• Plastic milk jugs #2 (Rinse & Remove Lids)
• Aluminum cans (Pop cans (Purchased or Donated)
• Aluminum (Pie pans, Clean foil)
• Glass bottles (Rinse & Remove Lids)
NO Window Glass
• E-waste (Flat screen TVs, computers, Computers monitors, keyboards)
NO Tube TVs
Reach out to Brandon Anderson and the City Administrator’s office for questions by calling 620-793-4111.
