Trego County Sanitary Landfill

Trego County Sanitary Landfill is the main burial landfill out by WaKeeney that handles household and commercial trash for the area. Farmers, local contractors and regular households bring loads here when the smaller drop-off sites won't do. The site is large and rural - it’s the kind of place where trucks and trailers are the norm.

There’s a scale you drive over to get a ticket, so the place charges by weight and large commercial loads are handled differently than a pickup load. A small booth near the entrance is where paperwork is checked before being directed toward the active cells. Expect to pull up, wait your turn behind other trucks, then be waved to a spot to dump and leave back over the scale. The site looks like bare earth with compacted rows and equipment - not a tidy recycling center, more a working landfill.