Trash & Recycling

2025 Trash, Recycling, & Brush Site Calendar

Curbside Trash & Recycling

De Soto contracts with Honey Creek Disposal for trash and recycle curbside pick up. View a map showing pick-up days.

Recycling is offered every other week. View the 2025 Recycling Calendar (full sized). 

Each Honey Creek subscriber gets a complimentary 95-gallon trash cart and 65-gallon recycling cart. Honey Creek also offers additional carts and sizes for your convenience. You can request any additional carts and/or sizes by contacting us or filling out this form. Fees apply to any additional carts at your residence. 

Missed Trash?

Call the Utilities Department or complete this Missed Trash or Recycling Pickup Request Form.

Trash Guidelines

  • What Can I Put In The Cart? Use your cart for regular household trash. The 95-gallon cart can hold up to 330 lbs. Current trash guidelines apply. Yard waste, construction materials should not be disposed of as household waste. Hazardous waste items must be taken to the proper disposal facilities. Trash bags are not required, but placing household waste in bags will help keep the cart sanitary. 
  • Placement of Trash Containers: Carts may be placed out for collection no earlier than 5 pm the day before your scheduled collection day, and no later than 7am the morning of collection. Place your cart within 3 ft. of the curb with the wheels facing away from the street and the arrows on the lid of the cart pointing toward the street.
  • Removal of Trash Containers: It should be returned to the house no later than 7 pm the day of collection. They may be placed within a garage or storage unit or placed on the side of your residence. 

Recycling

You Can Recycle:

You Can't Recycle:

  • Rigid plastics - #1 thru #7
  • Plastic bottles
  • Dairy containers
  • Yogurt cups
  • Deli or salad bar clamshells
  • Glass bottles/jars- brown, green, clear
  • Steel food and beverage cans
  • Newspaper
  • Office paper
  • Carrier stock
  • Envelopes
  • Manila file folders
  • Junk mail
  • Magazines
  • Catalogs 
  • Telephone books
  • Cardboard
  • Chipboard
  • Aluminum cans
  • Styrofoam or packaging
  • Plastic bags
  • Tissues, napkins, paper towels
  • Plastic cereal box/ cake box liners
  • Plastic toys
  • Light bulbs
  • Hardback books
  • Paper plates or cups
  • Gift wrap
  • Photographs
  • Drink pouches
  • Shredded paper
  • Hazardous waste containers
  • Trash
  • Yard waste
  • Chip or candy wrappers


Bulk Item Pickup

Bulk collection of larger items, such as household furniture, appliances, bicycles etc., will be made on the first service day of your collection each month. Appliances containing refrigerant must be responsibly evacuated before disposal.  

  • Limited to 4 items.
  • For non-bulk-pickup-day, you must contact City Hall 48 hours in advance to schedule pick-up for large items. Phone: 913-586-5270.
  • Accepted Items 
    • Carpet up to 4 feet in length by 18 inches in diameter, rolled and tied (no wire)
    • Electronics 
    • Small furniture 
    • Basketball goal (cut in half with concrete removed) 
    • BBQ grill (propane tank removed) 
    • Push mower (gas/oil removed) 
    • Appliances, including freon items (refrigerators, deep freezers, A/C window units, dehumidifiers, etc.). All appliances' doors must be secured shut.  
  • Unacceptable Items
    • Loose or scattered materials 
    • Hazardous waste material 
    • Remodeling/construction debris 
    • Yard waste 
    • Additional bags of trash 
    • Automobile parts/auto body parts 

Holidays

No collection will be made on...

  • New Years Day
  • Memorial Day
  • July 4th
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day. 

If your trash falls on a holiday or a day succeeding the holiday, your trash will be picked up one day later than normal for the remainder of that holiday week. 

  • For example, if your trash day falls on a Tuesday during a holiday week, your trash will be picked up on Wednesday and so forth. Your trash collection will resume as normal at the start of the next week. 
  • If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, your trash will be collected on your regularly scheduled pick-up day. 

Fuel Surcharge

In an effort to keep trash rates low, the trash & recycling contract with Honey Creek Disposal includes a fuel surcharge provision; if the national average price of diesel fuel is above $3.65/gallon for a billing period, a surcharge will go into effect. This is not a permanent charge. If the national average price of diesel stays below $3.65 for the billing period, the surcharge drops from the bill.

Your surcharge total depends on two things:

  • The actual average price per gallon: a higher average price per gallon increases the percentage used to figure the fuel surcharge
  • Which disposal services you use: most accounts will have a trash surcharge and a recycling surcharge, but some will have a dumpster or extra pickup fuel surcharge as well