Shawnee Community Services

We currently are in need of all the items listed below:

• Clothing
• Shoes
• Bedding
• Household Items
• Food/Expired Food
• Unneeded persctiptions
• Plastic sacks
• Paper Rolls
• Aluminum Cans
• Egg Cartons
• Children’s Toys
• Kids books
• Small Appliances
• Kitchen Items
• Coats
• Bedding/Blankets
• Towels
• Toiletries
• Dishes

Free clothing and shoes Monday through Saturday, no paperwork.

NECESSITIES
Free necessities (beds, dishes, couch, towels, etc), requires a referral letter.
Limited emergency assistance funds for prescriptions, gasoline, etc.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
Household goods for a “garage sale price” donation. Monies made from these donations go back into the services provided by Shawnee Community Services

ALUMINUM CANS
SCS welcomes aluminum can donations. The proceeds are used to pay the gas bill.

RE-USE POLICY
SCS does NOT pay for or purchase any form of products to be recycled.
SCS does NOT accept glass containers. Ripple glass has purple containers located at many shopping centers around the metro.
SCS can NOT accept used paint. If you are a Johnson County Kansas resident you can call JoCo Wastewater for an appointment to drop off paint products.
SCS can NOT accept tires or oil or any type of hazardous materials or household chemicals.
SCS “recycles” by RE-USE many items that are in usable condition. SCS can accept area rugs of all sizes however, SCS can NOT re- use wall-to-wall carpeting or the padding and it must be disposed of by the carpet installer or taken to the landfill.

Mattresses are accepted in clean, usable condition; they can not have urine or blood stains.
Due to the large volume of televisions and computer monitors that we are receiving, we will be accepting these on a very limited basis. Televisions must be 19″ or smaller. Call 913-268-7746 before bringing to our facility. VCR’s, CD players and any other electronic item (E-waste) need to be in working condition and are limited to one per donation. PLEASE call before bringing to the SCS facility. Electronic items are recycled by RE-USE. E-waste is currently being accepted at Surplus Exchange for a fee, call first.
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Clothing and shoes are given away free; these items need to arrive at SCS in wearable condition. Clothing and shoes are recycled by RE-USE.
Furniture, bric-a-brac, knick knacks and other household goods are all accepted in useable condition. They are recycled by RE-USE.
Please!! call ahead for exercise equipment or truckload quantities.
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We are NOT able to accept office desks, student size desks are okay.