Garbage and Recycling Pick Up

Single family homes and two and three flats are eligible for city garbage and recycling pick up. Large residential buildings, non-profits, and commercial buildings must provide their own trash pick-up and recycling services.

• Find your city trash and recycling pick up dates.

• Request new or replacement bins. In general, these requests take 2-3 weeks to fulfill.

Recycling and Composting

You can help improve Chicago’s recycling rate by ensuring trash isn’t mixed with recyclables.

• Recycle electronics and household chemicals at the city recycling facility on Branch Street.

• What you can put in city recycling bins

• Recycling special items

You can compost food scraps for free at a number of locations across the city. Currently, these are drop off locations only. The city does not yet offer curbside composting services. Private services do offer compost pick up.

• Free food scrap drop off locations

• Private composting services

OTHER QUESTIONS?

Have a question that wasn’t answered here? Read our detailed waste management article.