Kansas trash pickup is run by cities, counties and private haulers, not by the state.
Your pickup day comes from your city’s or hauler’s own lookup. Among the largest cities, Kansas City contracts a private hauler; in Wichita and Overland Park residents hire their own hauler. Kansas has no statewide bottle deposit, PaintCare paint, mattress or electronics recycling program.
Find your city
- Wichita: no city collection; residents hire one of seven city-permitted haulers, each required to offer curbside recycling and a smaller cart, with hazardous waste free at the Sedgwick County facility.
Other large cities and their official collection pages:
- Overland Park: no city collection: residents contract private haulers (the city permits the haulers). Residential trash removal and recycling are provided by private permitted companies, which must offer trash removal, curbside recycling excluding glass, and yard waste collection at least 40 weeks a year. Official page ↗
- Kansas City: Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas — Public Works Department, Solid Waste Management (collection contracted to WM). Trash and recycling are collected weekly on the same day, cost $20.15 a month in 2026, and service starts automatically when Board of Public Utilities water and electric service is activated. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
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Who collects in Kansas
- KDHE’s Bureau of Waste Management is responsible for recycling, composting and household hazardous waste efforts across Kansas and runs the Keep It Clean Kansas education program. Source ↗
National haulers (Republic Services, WM, Waste Connections) hold contracts in many places; the city or county names the hauler for each street.
State-level rules
- Container deposit: No statewide container deposit law. Kansas is not among the ten states with a beverage container deposit law listed by the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research. Source ↗
- Paint: Not a PaintCare state. PaintCare lists programs in twelve states and the District of Columbia; Kansas is not one of them. Leftover paint goes through the local household hazardous waste program; see paint. Source ↗
- Mattresses: No statewide mattress take-back program. The Mattress Recycling Council says its Bye Bye Mattress program operates statewide only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. See mattresses. Source ↗
- Electronics: No statewide electronics law. KDHE’s e-waste policy states that Kansas laws and regulations do not specifically address e-waste disposal and that e-waste may be landfilled in permitted municipal solid waste landfills, though recycling is preferred. Source ↗
State agency
- State agency: Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), Bureau of Waste Management. The Bureau of Waste Management permits solid waste facilities and is responsible for recycling, composting and household hazardous waste efforts in the state, with the Keep It Clean Kansas program educating residents. Official website ↗
- Find your local program: Kansas household hazardous waste program contacts ↗
- Contact: 785-296-1617
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Materials with their own rules
Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees
Neighboring states
Colorado · Missouri · Nebraska · Oklahoma
Sources
Official pages used: kdhe.ks.gov · kdhe.ks.gov · wichita.gov · wichita.gov · opkansas.gov · wycokck.org · experience.arcgis.com · cga.ct.gov · paintcare.org · mattressrecyclingcouncil.org · kdhe.ks.gov.
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