Explore the Village of Lake Bluff’s recycling and waste collection services. Learn about refuse and recycling programs, bulk item pickup, e-waste collection, yard waste disposal, appliance recycling, and special services. Access drop-off information, recycling guidelines, and holiday pickup schedules.
Residential Garbage & Recycling is available in many areas where we offer garbage pickup.
Our Commercial Waste Collection service provides your business with a range of dumpsters and service schedules to meet your needs.
Our Roll Off Dumpster Services offer a range of container sizes that fit commercial, residential, and construction needs.
Standard Level: Each house has been supplied with a 95-gallon capacity tote for their use. Residents will also be allowed up to one bulk item per week at no additional charge. This is the program you will be automatically enrolled in unless a call is made to enter a different program. While we strive to maintain consistent collection times, trucks may arrive earlier or later than usual. To ensure pickup, please place all materials at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day.
À la Carte Services: Residents may request a la carte level of service for an extra fee. Special services will be invoiced quarterly to the homeowner.
- 1 x per week backdoor service
- 2 x per week backdoor service
- 2 x per week curbside service
*NOTE
Backdoor service users are limited to 95-gallon cart. Landscape waste and recycling material will still need to be placed at the curb. Those opting for twice per week service should place their landscape waste and recyclables out on the first day of your weekly collection.
Service Days
- Residents west of Sheridan Roads primary day is Monday - À la carte service (2x) per week on Thursday.
- Residents east of Sheridan Roads primary day is Tuesday - À la carte service (2x) per week on Friday.
Unlimited recycling service is provided. Each household has been supplied with a 65-gallon capacity recycling tote for their use. Extra items may be placed in a cardboard box, or a clearly marked container labeled RECYCLING ONLY. All recyclables may be mixed together in one container, no sorting is needed. Do Not put your recyclables in plastic bags.
- Container Requirements
Must be 35-gallons or less and weigh under 50 lbs.
- Additional Trash Carts
Available for purchase only (rental not offered).
- Additional Recycling Carts
Carts are available, but customers must enroll in a new program for each extra cart.
Our Residential Containers
You’ll need one cart for trash and another for recycling as services are collected separately.
Complete Guide for all Special Pickup Services
Residents will have landscape waste collection weekly. All yard waste material must be placed in a Kraft paper type yard waste bag not exceeding 32-gallons and not weighing more than (50) pounds. Any brush or branches must be cut down to 4 feet in length and bundled no greater than 2 feet in diameter. Please use only twine to secure the bundles. Tape, plastic, or metal is prohibited at compost sites. Yard waste in plastic bags will NOT be collected.
Grass clippings, leaves, twigs, garden debris, weeds, fruits, seeds, stalks, and vines are acceptable landscape items. Landscape does not include wood timbers, plastic edging, plant pots, plant trays, wood chips, bark, fertilizer, landscape material bags, landscape fabric, root sections, sand, gravel, sod, firewood, rocks, excess amounts of dirt, or animal waste.
One bulk item such as a couch or dresser or 1 cubic yard (3x 3x 3) of miscellaneous debris or construction material will be collected each week for no additional charge. Construction type debris should be stacked or bundled in lengths no longer than 4 feet and no larger than 2 feet in diameter.
- We will consider a box spring and mattress as one large item.
- Carpeting should be in rolls no longer than 4 feet long and two feet in diameter and taped. We consider 5 rolls to be one large item.
- In general, try to keep any loose material bundled and neat so it can be collected.
- Stone, concrete, and dirt can only be picked up in containers and cannot weigh more than 45 lbs. per container. Two containers will be considered one large item.
Lake Bluff Drop-off Option
Residents may have the option of dropping off extra garbage and bulk items free of charge at the Villages Public Works Facility (640 Rockland Road) Monday through Friday (7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and on Saturday and Sunday (10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) *Special note: appliances must have any mercury switches and/or Freon type gas removed before dropping off, a tag evidencing their removal is required.
Oversized/Overweight Items
Some items are just too big or heavy for our people 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 call 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. There is a fee per item for collection and you are required to call the office to schedule and make arrangements for payment.
If you find you need a large amount of extra rubbish picked up all at once, or if you have more than the allowed one bulk item there will be an extra charge and you must call the office to arrange for scheduling and payment. If you choose to have your clean-up done on a day other than your normal service day, an extra trip fee will be charged.
Christmas tree Pickup
Christmas trees may be placed out for collection through the second week of January for no extra 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
- Holiday Impacts to Collection Days
- Christmas Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Memorial Day
- New Year's Day
- Thanksgiving Day
*Collections will be delayed by one day after a holiday.
*If the holiday falls on a Sunday, there will be no collection on Monday and services will be delayed by one day for the remainder of the week.
*If the holiday falls on a Saturday, there will be no change to your regular pickup day.
*If a holiday falls on a weekday, service will be delayed one day later for the remainder of the week. - Vacation Holds
- You may place your account on hold for up to 4 months per calendar year. "Low Volume" program cannot place vacation holds.
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