The agency that supports Special Olympics in Hays is spending a good deal of money hauling trash to Ellis County’s municipal waste transfer station.
The nonprofit would like to dump it for free like other non-profit organizations, said Jim Huenergarde, board president for the local Arc chapter.
The problem is due to a big jump in donated household goods that can’t be sold but that are dropped off at Arc of Central Plains locations.
Arc’s request spurred Ellis County Public Works Director Bill Ring to ask the County Commissioners how they want to handle the county’s free dumping policy for nonprofits. Some non-profits have dropped off free since at least July 2003, the last time the Ellis County policy was updated.
Ring asked the commissioners if they want to cap the number of dollars a nonprofit can drop off, or perhaps not permit any free dumping at all, since Ellis County ships its trash to a landfill in another county.
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