First Step Recycling Foundation
Great Bend, KS
Facility details
- Address
- 5523 10th St
Great Bend, KS 67530 - Phone
- (620) 792-1321
- Google reviews
- See visitor reviews on Google
- Website
- sunflowerdiv.com
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Barton County
- EPA Region
- 7
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-15
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- Resource Management Company Inc Recycling 2.6 mi · Great Bend, KS
- First Step Recycling Foundation Recycling 2.7 mi · Great Bend, KS
- Acme Scrap Recycling 2.8 mi · Great Bend, KS
- Acme Iron and Scrap Metals 2.8 mi · Great Bend, KS
- Barton County HHW & Landfill Landfill 6.1 mi · Great Bend, KS
- Barton County Landfill Recycling 6.1 mi · Great Bend, KS
- City of Hoisington Transfer Station 11.0 mi · Hoisington, KS
- B&B Wrecker Service Recycling 16.6 mi · Larned, KS
- Pawnee County - Larned Landfill and Transfer Station Landfill 21.2 mi · Larned, KS
Nearest landfill: Barton County HHW & Landfill, Great Bend — 6.1 mi
Waste haulers nearby
- Bob's Septic Service0.9 mi · Great Bend, KS · 1 driver
- Cliff's Commercial Trash Service LLC0.9 mi · Great Bend, KS · 1 driver
- Estes Trash LLC0.9 mi · Great Bend, KS · 1 driver
- Don's Trash Service0.9 mi · Great Bend, KS · 1 driver
- Stone Waste Management LLC0.9 mi · Great Bend, KS · 3 drivers
Area served
Serves Great Bend, Pawnee Rock, Olmitz, Albert, Ellinwood.
County context
One of 6 recycling centers in Barton County, KS.
14 waste haulers in Barton County, KS.
ZIP 67530 at a glance
- Population
- 17,798 (29 per sq mi)
- Median age
- 38
- Households
- Median income $58,780 · 24% earn six figures
- Housing
- 60% owner-occupied · median home value $137,010 · median rent $766
- Workforce
- 63% labor-force participation · 3.8% unemployment
ZIP figures are US Census estimates for the ZIP area, not the company.
Kansas solid-waste agency: Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE)