MASWU offers a variety of ways to make recycling easy for the citizens of McPherson County. There is a recycling drop-off center located at the MASWU Transfer Station and a number of other drop-off sites located in incorporated cities throughout the county. Drop off locations, hours of operation and materials accepted are listed below.
RECYCLING DROP-OFF SITES
MASWU Transfer Station - 1431 17th Ave., McPherson - (620)241-6559
Open Monday through Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM, Saturday 8:00AM to 4:00PM
City of Canton - 105 S. 4th Street, (620)628-4916
Open 4th Wednesday of each month from 3:00PM to 5:30PM
Open 4th Saturday of each month from 8:00AM to Noon
City of Inman - 301 S. Elm Street - (620)585-2122
Open 4th Wednesday of each month from 3:00PM to 5:30PM
Open 4th Saturday of each month from 8:00AM to 12:00PM
City of Lindsborg - 100 E. Lindsborg - (785)227-3355
Open 24 hours
City of Marquette - 308 N. Phillips - (785)546-2205
Open
City of Moundridge - 618 E. Cole Street - (620)345-2661
Open the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Open every Wednesday of each month from 4:00PM to 7:00PM
City of Windom - N. Main Street - (620)489-6200
Open the first Saturday of each month, May 1st through October 31st, 8:00AM to 10:00AM
Open the first Saturday of each month, November 1st through April 30th, 9:00AM to 11:00AM
City of Hillsboro
Open Thursdays 5:00PM to 7:00PM
Open Saturdays 9:00AM to 12:00PM
The days and hours of operation are sometimes changed around holidays. To confirm the times and hours of operation, contact the site at the number listed.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL ACCEPTED
- Newspaper - Newspapers/newsprint only
- Separate from other papers and no slicks, except what comes within the newspaper.
- Strings, bags or paper sacks must be removed from newspapers upon deposit into bins.
- Aluminum - Aluminum cans only
- Clean and separate.
- No foil or Pie plates
- Cardboard - Corrugated cardboard only
- Flatten all boxes and cartons.
- Clean; no dirt, food, staples, or wax coating.
- Plastics - type 1
and type 2 
plastic only (no other numbers) - Separate into the following groups:
- Clear and green pop bottles and other type 1 bottles.
- Milk/water jugs (type 2).
- Colored bottles and containers (type 2).
- Rinse bottles and containers and remove caps and lids.
- Please flatten items.
- Labels do not need to be removed
- Tin Cans
- Rinsed and cleaned. No food scraps, etc.
- Please remove lids and flatten cans.
- Labels do not need to be removed.
- Glass - Bottles and jars only
- Separate into the following groups:
- Clear glass.
- Brown glass.
- Green glass and blue glass.
- No porcelain or solid color glass.
- Rinse and remove lids and caps.
- Labels do not need to be removed.
- Office Paper
- Copy paper, office documents.
- Non-windowed envelopes.
- File folders.
- Can be in sheet or shredded form.
- No slick or brightly colored paper.
- Magazines - Magazines and small catalogs only
- No phone books
COMMERCIAL CARDBOARD RECYCLING
This service is of great benefit in two ways. It is friendly to our environment, but also reduces the cost of trash service for those customers who participate in the recycling of cardboard by reducing the amount of trash going into the trash dumpster.
Recycling containers are available from sizes 1 yard to 6 yard. The container is emptied on a weekly basis. The only charge to the customer is the container rental. The cardboard is taken to the MASWU transfer station where it is baled and picked up by a commercial recycling product vendor. For more information on this service, please call our transfer station at (620)241-6559.
At the Transfer Station there is a drop off site for yard waste. Yard waste consists of grass, leaves, weeds, garden and flowerbed plants, bush and tree trimmings, fallen branches, and other plant waste. The lighter weight materials (grass, leaves, etc.) are turned into compost. The denser materials (trimmings, branches, etc.) are turned into wood chips. Both compost and wood chips are made available to residents of McPherson County at no charge. Monday through Friday you may load yourself or pay a small load fee to have it loaded for you. On Saturdays no load fee will be charged.
When leaving materials in the yard waste area, the following guidelines need to be observed:
- Any form of bundling must be removed. This includes bags, boxes, strings, straps and ties.
- Sort out any non-yard materials (pop cans, wrappers, bags, lumber, furniture, etc.) that are in your yard waste and put them in the appropriate location.
- Any branch or trunk sections that are over 12 inches in diameter can not be handled by the Utility's chipper. These sections will need to be left in one of our construction and demolition bins.
Please feel free to call us at (620)241-6559 with any questions you may have.
LANDSCAPING MATERIAL AVAILABLE
McPherson Area Solid Waste Utility now offers dyed wood chips. County residents may purchase a load of dyed wood chips for $35 per load. There will be no limit on the amount of dyed chips a resident purchases. The only limit will be the availability of the product. The Utility also offers pallet chips for $10 per load. There is a 1 load per day limit on the pallet chips. The Utility continues to offer compost and chipped branch material at no cost. The residents may load the compost and non-dyed chipped branch material themselves at no charge.
There is a $5 load fee for any of the landscaping/composting material Monday - Friday. There is no load fee for county residents on Saturday.
