• Residential trash must be collected at least once per week.

• Haulers provide a solid waste container with a lid to all residential customers.

• Johnson County regulations require that residential waste haulers utilize a volume-based rate structure for trash collection. Residents who wish to dispose of more trash than what will fit in the provided container will be charged an additional amount.

Contact your hauler for specific details.

• Residential recycling must be collected at least every other week. While haulers can choose to offer biweekly collection, they must offer weekly recycling collection to customers as well.

• Haulers must offer an unlimited volume of recycling as part of their residential services. Contact your hauler to see what items are approved for recycling pickup.

• Haulers provide a recycling container with a lid to all residential customers. The recycling container must be at least the same size as the provided solid waste container.

• In addition to curbside recycling, there are many area drop-off recycling locations in the area. RecycleSpot provides a comprehensive list of recycling and reuse services in Greater Kansas City.

• Glass may be recycled at Ripple Glass drop-off locations in Lenexa and the metro area.  

• Lenexa residents may recycle unwanted electronics during the city’s twice-yearly Dumpster Days.

• Johnson County Department of Health and Environment regularly offers electronics recycling events. 

• RecycleSpot provides a comprehensive list of recycling and reuse services, including electronics recycling, in Greater Kansas City.

• Waste haulers provide yard waste collection (leaves, branches, limbs, etc.) as part of the basic service charge for residential customers.

• Yard waste must be disposed of separately from trash in a compostable container, such as a brown yard waste bag. Compostable bags are available at many retail locations, including hardware and grocery stores.

• Tree limbs and brush must be securely bundled not longer than 48 inches, 18 inches in diameter and weighing no more than 65 pounds each, or loose in ridged containers weighting no more than 35 gallons in capacity. Contact your hauler for more details about what is accepted.

• Yard waste is collected weekly March through November, and monthly December through February. Yard waste collection is limited to six bags or bundles per pickup, except during October and November, when the limit is 10 bags or bundles per pickup.

• Yard waste can be disposed of at the city’s twice-yearly Dumpster Days.

Waste haulers are required to offer their customers one bulky item curb pickup each year as part of their basic collection rate. Some haulers require residents to call and schedule their pickup date, while other haulers have set collection dates for certain areas of Lenexa.

Contact your hauler for its curbside collection of bulky items policy. This service replaced the city-sponsored Curbside Cleanup program, which is no longer held.

Large items (furniture, appliances, tires, limbs, etc.) may be disposed of twice a year at the city’s Dumpster Days.

The Johnson County Household Hazardous Waste facility located in Mission off of I-35 and Lamar is now closed. Johnson County will move to a new facility in Overland Park, tentatively set to open in mid-June 2023. All of the same materials will be accepted, paint can be purchased through the re-blended paint program, and the Free Store will still have usable items “free” to the public.

Learn about the new facility

Have paint or other household chemicals to get rid of? Please hold on to those items until the new location opens in June. If it is something you must  get rid of before that time, the City of Olathe also operates a household hazardous waste facility that any Johnson County resident can use. 

It’s important to keep prescription medicine away from children and out of our water supply. Get rid of unwanted or expired prescription and over-the-counter medications by using the MedReturn drop-off box inside the Lenexa Police Department at 12500 W. 87th St. Pkwy. The collection site is open year round. Drugs can be dropped off with no questions asked.

Items not accepted:

• Illegal drugs

• Bloody and infectious waste

• Needles or other sharp objects

• IV bags

• Bandages

• Inhalers

• Medication from businesses or clinics

• Personal care products

• Hydrogen peroxide

• Aerosol cans

• Thermometers

• Ointments, lotions or liquids

Lenexa residents can receive discounted curbside compost service weekly or every other week from two providers: 

• Compost Collective KC
• Food Cycle KC