South Barrington

Residents will have landscape waste collections weekly from April 1st through November 30th as follows:

• Landscape waste stickers: Residents must purchase a landscape waste sticker and place it on a biodegradable yard waste bag when set out for collection.

All yard waste material must be placed in a Kraft paper type yard waste bag. Any brush or branches outside of the container or bag must be cut down to 4 feet in length and bundled no greater than 2 feet in diameter and a sticker must be affixed to each bundle. Yard waste in plastic bags will NOT be collected.

Grass clippings, leaves, twigs, garden debris, weeds, fruits, seeds, stalks, vines are acceptable landscape items. Landscape does not include wood timbers, plastic edging, plant pots or trays, fertilizer or landscape material bags, landscape fabric, root sections, bark, wood chips, sand, gravel, sod, firewood, rocks, excess amounts of dirt or animal waste.

‍Christmas Tree Pickup: Christmas trees may be placed out for collection through the month of January at no extra charge.

One bulk item such as a couch or dresser or miscellaneous debris will be collected each week for no additional charge.

• We will consider a box spring and mattress as one large item.
• In general try and keep any loose material bundled and neat so we can pick up.

Oversized/Overweight Items‍

Some items are just too big or heavy for our drivers to handle without special equipment, in that case your driver may leave it so special arrangements can be made. In this event special charges will apply. Please contact us and check first if you think what you have placed out falls in this category.

State laws require us to collect any white good type of appliances such as refrigerators, ovens, washers etc. separately and recycle. Residents must contact us in advance for white good collections; appliances are only collected on Mondays. There is no additional charge for this service.

‍Construction Debris and General Clean Ups
1 cubic yard at no charge - if more than 1 cubic yard, you need to contact us to schedule. All material must be cut up to no more than 4 ft in length and no larger than 2 ft in diameter.

All loose debris must be in cans or bags not exceeding 45 pounds per item. There will be a charge for each cubic yard (3x3x3) off debris. If a pick up is done on a day other than the regular service day there will be a trip charge along with the yardage charge.

Upon customer request the supervisor can perform an estimate prior to your collection day (material must be placed out at least 24 hours in advance of your regular collection day) so you can avoid paying a special trip charge.

Tough Items: Fluorescent bulbs, needles, paint, tires etc...create special problems, please click here for help with these materials.

Under the Illinois Electronic Products Recycling and Reuse Act, mixing electronics with regular landfill waste is prohibited. All collected items are securely recycled and made inoperable. For sensitive electronics like hard drives, we offer convenient front, side, or drive-up pickups. You can also drop off items at local collection sites, many free of charge. Visit our where and how page, select your county and town, and find nearby drop-off locations.

Groot Industries offers collection of these items directly from your home for an additional fee; however, you must contact us in advance to schedule a pick-up and make arrangements.

• Computers & monitors
• Video game consoles
• Electronic Mice & keyboards
• Printers & Scanners
• Televisions
• Digital converter boxes
• Cable & Satellite receivers
• Fax machines
• Small scale servers
• Video cassette recorders
• Digital video disc players & recorders
• Portable digital music players