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If that TV you got for Christmas in 1991 is still in your basement, now's your chance to get rid of it. Same goes for that futon you've been lugging around since college. Sedgwick County soon will distribute coupons that residents can use to get rid of bulky trash such as televisions, computers and furniture.
Instead of holding a one-day trash collection event as it has in the past, the county will give out coupons that can be used at two trash transfer stations through December.
The coupons will be good for $28, or up to 1,000 pounds.
Beginning today, residents can sign up for a coupon online at www.sedgwickcounty.org or by calling 316-660-9110. After receiving a request, the county will mail out a coupon within a week.
Identification and proof of residence will be required.
The coupons should make it easier and less expensive for people to get rid of larger items that they can't put out with their regular trash, said Susan Erlenwein, the county's environmental resources director.
People will have to haul trash themselves to the transfer stations.
Refrigerators or other items containing Freon, tires and hazardous materials will not be allowed.
People will have several weeks to make arrangements to get trash to the transfer stations instead of having to worry about waiting in line for a one-day event.
Items will be recycled if possible.
In 2009, residents dropped off more than 1 million pounds of electronics — double what organizers expected — at a one-day e-waste event sponsored by the county.
The coupons will be accepted at the Waste Connections trash transfer station at 4300 W. 37th St. North and at the Waste Disposal trash transfer station at 5550 W. 55th St. South.
Employees at the trash transfer stations will allow one coupon per household, Erlenwein said. The coupons can't be transferred.
The coupons will have watermarks on them so they can't be copied.
The county anticipates giving out about 6,000 coupons. At $28 each, that's $168,000.
