Currently there is no curb-side recycling offered in Barton County but Sunflower Diversified Services hopes to change that in the future.
Executive Director Jon Prescott updated Barton County Commissioners Monday on the organizations activities over the past year after Sunflower received a $15,000 recycling grant from the county in 2018.
Prescott told the board that they are very interested in providing curb-side recycling in the future after the Barton County Young Professionals organization survey showed there was very high interest in curb-side service. He says of the 278 surveys that were sent out, there was a 96.8% response rate that indicated they were interested.
(Read more: Great Bend Post)