Public Services Department
1407 W. Madison Ave.
Arkansas City, KS 67005
(620) 441-4460
Recycling Information
Recycling Program Details
The Arkansas City/Winfield Recycling Center located at 7th Avenue and D Street in Strother Field will be open for community drive-through drop-off from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays ONLY.
Contact Information
- Recycling Center (620) 221-5600
Winfield Recycle Center
22180 D. Street
Strother Field, KS 67156
The Recycling Center will be CLOSED on the following City observed holidays:
New Year's Day- Friday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Saturday
President's Day - Saturday
Memorial Day - Friday and Saturday
Independence Day - Friday and Saturday
Labor Day - Friday and Saturday
Thanksgiving - Friday and Saturday
Christmas - Friday and Saturday
The following clean, dry, and sorted materials will be accepted in the following categories:
- Plastics Bottles & Containers #1 & #2 (Milk Jugs, Soda Bottles, & Laundry Detergent)
- Plastics Bottles & Containers #3 - #7 (Food Trays, Spray Bottles & Butter Tubs)
- Aluminum Cans (Soda & Beer Cans)
- Steel/Tin Cans (Soup & Vegetable Cans)
- Mixed Paper (Newspaper, Magazines, Catalogs, Books, Phonebooks, & Junk Mail)
- Paperboard (Cereal Box, Soda Pop Box’s, Packing Paper, Egg Cartons, & Etc.)
- Corrugated Cardboard (Shipping Boxes, Pizza Boxes (Free of Food & Grease) or Moving Boxes)
- Glass Bottles, Jugs & Jars (Any Color)
Unsorted or contaminated materials (e.g., food residues, yard waste, plastic bags, etc.) will not be accepted at the center at Strother Field.
- For both communities, commercial pickup customers will recycle clean corrugated cardboard only.
- Both communities' customers are encouraged to rethink and reset their consumer behaviors.
- As a step toward reducing and reusing, each City has reusable grocery shopping bags available at no additional cost for customers to pick up at its City Hall. These bags are not recyclable and do not have to be used to recycle.