Figuring out what the city takes. Waiting for pickup day. Calling around for quotes. It’s a lot to sort out for something you’re ready to be done with.
Standard sofa$79First item example Before applicable tax
Your exact price. Upfront.
Find your items in the catalog and see your exact price online. Book without phone calls or an in-person estimate.
Gone as soon as today.
Choose your pickup day. Book by 2pm local time for same-day pickup, where available.
In the loop until it’s gone.
Get a booking confirmation, a text before arrival and pickup photos when it’s done. Follow along on your pickup page.
Made for your place
Your place. One easy pickup plan.
A house, a condo or an apartment. Choose an accessible outdoor spot that works for your property. You arrange the move outside; we take it from there.
1
Book before you bring it out.
Your items can still be inside when you book. Follow the readiness instructions in your confirmation.
2
Choose a clear outdoor spot.
You arrange any carrying out of your home or down interior stairs. Keep entrances, sidewalks and shared access clear. We handle loading and haul-away from outside.
3
Show us where to find it.
Add a photo and clear location notes. Contact us before booking if a gate, building rule or restricted access window needs an arrangement.
At a house: outside, accessible and easy to identify.At an apartment: an approved outdoor spot with shared access clear.
Access needs an arrangement?
Check any building or shared-area rules. Contact us before booking if access is limited to particular hours.
City collection Furniture is a bulk item when it will not fit in the cart and goes out with five LRS stickers. From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a bulk item requiring five stickers. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, with a 50 pound maximum weight on a bulk item and a per pickup cart charge for anything set out in the cart.
City collection A mattress is a bulk item and goes out on the garbage day with five LRS stickers attached. From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a bulk item such as a mattress requiring five stickers and a maximum weight of 50 pounds. Wheaton residential accounts served by Lakeshore Recycling Systems, where stickers are required for yard waste, leaves, organics, excess garbage, electronics and bulk items.
City collection White goods such as refrigerators and water heaters take ten LRS stickers and are collected by a separate truck at the end of the day. From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a white good such as a refrigerator or water heater requiring ten stickers. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, with white goods defined as appliances containing CFC, HCFC, PCBs, mercury switches or other hazardous components.
City collection Bulk items are anything too large for the cart and go out on the garbage day with five LRS stickers. From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with most bulk items requiring five stickers and a 50 pound maximum weight. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, where the account is billed each time a cart is set out and stickers are required for yard waste, leaves, organics, excess garbage, electronics and bulk items.
The highest first-item price applies once. Every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
Selected customer reviews. Counts checked September 2026.
The local disposal guide
Will the city take it?
Wheaton residents get curbside garbage, recycling and yard waste from Lakeshore Recycling Systems under a pay-as-you-throw program: every cart carries a tag the truck scans, so the account is billed each time a cart is set out, and materials go to the curb between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the pickup day. LRS stickers cover yard waste, leaves, organics, garbage that will not fit in the cart, electronics and bulk items, with a bulk item such as a mattress or toilet needing five stickers and a white good such as a refrigerator needing ten, and do-it-yourself construction debris priced by the cubic yard plus a pickup charge. Electronics can go to the monthly drop-off event at the Public Works Storage Yard on the second Saturday of the month, with televisions and monitors charged at the event, or be collected curbside with stickers after a call to LRS. Household hazardous waste such as paint, solvents, used oil and automotive fluids is not accepted in the garbage and is referred to the DuPage County program.
A mattress is a bulk item and goes out on the garbage day with five LRS stickers attached.
City cost & eligibility
From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a bulk item such as a mattress requiring five stickers and a maximum weight of 50 pounds. Wheaton residential accounts served by Lakeshore Recycling Systems, where stickers are required for yard waste, leaves, organics, excess garbage, electronics and bulk items.
When & how
Attach the required stickers and put the mattress at the curb on your garbage day between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day.
Get it ready
Keep the piece within the 50 pound bulk limit, keep it out of the recycling cart, and buy the stickers in advance at City Hall or one of the listed stores because the crew collects only what is stickered.
Furniture is a bulk item when it will not fit in the cart and goes out with five LRS stickers.
City cost & eligibility
From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a bulk item requiring five stickers. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, with a 50 pound maximum weight on a bulk item and a per pickup cart charge for anything set out in the cart.
When & how
Put the furniture at the curb on your garbage day with five stickers attached, between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day.
Get it ready
Break or fold the piece down where you can, keep it within the 50 pound bulk limit, and keep anything too large to fit the cart out of the recycling cart and off the yard waste pile.
Refrigerators, water heaters and other white goods
Accepted with preparation
White goods such as refrigerators and water heaters take ten LRS stickers and are collected by a separate truck at the end of the day.
City cost & eligibility
From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a white good such as a refrigerator or water heater requiring ten stickers. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, with white goods defined as appliances containing CFC, HCFC, PCBs, mercury switches or other hazardous components.
When & how
Attach the ten stickers and put the unit at the curb on your garbage day, knowing that the city says all white goods are collected by a separate truck at the end of the day.
Get it ready
Empty the unit, keep it out of the recycling cart and off the electronics load, and keep items with refrigerant on this white goods route rather than with the regular garbage.
Electronics go either to the monthly drop-off event, where televisions and monitors carry a fee, or to the curb with LRS stickers.
City cost & eligibility
From $25 per television or monitor with a screen smaller than 21 inches at the monthly drop-off event, with larger screens charged at the higher published rate and a curbside television or monitor requiring ten stickers at the current sticker price. Wheaton residents using either route, with televisions and monitors paid in cash or prepaid through the eWorks website at the event and the curbside collection requested from Lakeshore Recycling Systems at least one day before the garbage day.
When & how
Take items to the Public Works Storage Yard at 820 W. Liberty Drive on the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon, or call Lakeshore Recycling Systems at 773-685-8811 at least one day before your garbage day and set the items at the curb with the right stickers by 6 a.m.
Get it ready
At the event keep everything in the trunk and stay in the vehicle, with textiles in a clean plastic bag and small electronics in a cardboard box, and for curbside clear personal data first because the city and the hauler are not responsible for items left at the curb.
Small do-it-yourself debris is collected for a published per cubic yard rate plus a pickup charge.
City cost & eligibility
$17 per cubic yard for do-it-yourself construction or demolition debris, plus a 24.00 pickup charge. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, with the debris placed in a 35 gallon container or in stacks that stay within the size and weight limits.
When & how
Put the debris out on your garbage day in a 35 gallon container or in stacks with the required stickers attached, between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day.
Get it ready
Keep each container at or under 50 pounds, keep stacks under 50 pounds and no more than 4 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, and keep household hazardous waste out of the pile because paint, solvents, oil and automotive fluids go to the DuPage County program instead.
Exercise equipment is not named on the city pages, so the route has to be confirmed with LRS or the city.
City cost & eligibility
No city page names an exercise machine. A piece too large for the cart would fall under the bulk item count of five stickers with a 50 pound maximum, so confirm with the city or Lakeshore Recycling Systems whether the machine qualifies, and how the weight limit is handled for a heavier frame.
When & how
Call Lakeshore Recycling Systems at 773-685-8811 or the city before the machine goes out, then use the garbage day set-out window with the stickers the confirmation calls for.
Get it ready
Break the machine down where you can to bring it inside the size and weight limits, remove any battery pack so it does not go into the wrong stream, and keep it clear of the recycling cart and the yard waste pile.
Bulk items are anything too large for the cart and go out on the garbage day with five LRS stickers.
City cost & eligibility
From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with most bulk items requiring five stickers and a 50 pound maximum weight. Wheaton residential LRS accounts, where the account is billed each time a cart is set out and stickers are required for yard waste, leaves, organics, excess garbage, electronics and bulk items.
When & how
Put the items at the curb on your garbage day with the stickers attached, between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day, and remove the containers by 7 p.m. that day.
Get it ready
Keep each piece within the 50 pound bulk limit, roll carpeting no longer than 4 feet and 18 inches in diameter with a sticker on each roll, separate a toilet bowl from the tank and put the five stickers on one piece, and keep household hazardous waste out of the pile.
Paint, chemicals, batteries and other household hazardous waste
Special rules apply
Household hazardous waste is not accepted in the garbage and is referred to the DuPage County program.
City cost & eligibility
The city does not take household hazardous waste in the garbage and sends residents to the DuPage County program, which publishes its own collection options and rules, so confirm the current drop-off or event details with the county before storing or hauling anything.
When & how
Check the DuPage County program for the current collection options, and keep the material out of every LRS cart and out of the bulk pile until then.
Get it ready
Paint, pesticides, poisons, cleaning solvents, tainted gasoline, used oil and other automotive fluids must not go in the regular garbage, and motor oil, antifreeze, pool chemicals and other hazardous waste containers must stay out of the recycling cart.
Carts go out between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m., and the truck scans them
Pickup days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday and the same day covers garbage, recycling and yard waste, with material at the curb between 7 p.m. the night before collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day and containers back in by 7 p.m. that day. Residents must use the LRS carts provided for the home, each cart carries a tag the truck scans, the account is billed each time a cart is set out, and the carts stay with the house when a resident moves.
Each bag, container, stack and bulk item needs the listed number of stickers
LRS stickers cover yard waste, leaves, organics, garbage that will not fit in the cart, electronics and bulk items. One sticker covers an excess garbage bag or a biodegradable yard waste bag or container that stays inside the size and weight limits, one covers a stack of brush or tree trimmings, a bulk item such as carpeting, a mattress or a toilet needs five stickers, a white good such as a refrigerator or water heater needs ten, and a curbside television or monitor needs ten. Yard waste, leaves, food scraps and organics are collected from the first full week of April through the second full week of December, and live Christmas trees are picked up free with no sticker during the two weeks after Christmas.
Hazardous waste and the wrong materials stay out of the carts and piles
Paint, pesticides, poisons, cleaning solvents, tainted gasoline, used oil and other automotive fluids are hazardous waste and must not go in the regular garbage, and the city sends residents to the DuPage County program. Plastic bags, scrap metal, mirrors, window glass and Pyrex, dishes, light bulbs, number 6 plastic, polystyrene and hazardous waste containers cannot go in the recycling cart, and grease, aluminum foil, cooking oil, liquids, hazardous waste, plastic, cleaning supplies, pizza boxes, diapers and pet litter cannot go in with the yard waste.
Use a permitted, accessible outdoor spot. Arrange the move out of your home, keep shared access clear and follow your confirmation’s readiness instructions. Check with your building about access or staging limits before booking.
A Wheaton household with garbage, recycling, yard waste or a bulky item for the weekly LRS collection.
Cost & conditions
$5.21 per pickup for the 65 gallon garbage cart at the current contract year rate, with recycling billed separately per pickup and stickers charged per sticker. Wheaton residential accounts served by Lakeshore Recycling Systems, where garbage and recycling are charged per pickup and only when a cart is set out and scanned.
Arrange it
Use the LRS carts provided for the home, put material at the curb between 7 p.m. the night before and 6 a.m. on the pickup day, call LRS at 773-685-8811 for cart, service or billing questions, and attach the required stickers to anything that does not fit in the cart.
Only the LRS carts are allowed and they stay with the house when you move, household hazardous waste must not go in the garbage, and paint, pesticides, solvents, used oil and automotive fluids are referred to the DuPage County program.
A household with electronics, clothing, scrap metal, cooking oil, fluorescent tubes or holiday light strings.
Cost & conditions
From $25 per television or monitor with a screen smaller than 21 inches at the monthly drop-off event, with larger screens charged at the higher published rate. Wheaton residents at the second Saturday event at the Public Works Storage Yard, where televisions and monitors must be paid in cash with no change given or prepaid through the eWorks website, and eWorks accepts cash or credit card but no checks.
Arrange it
Go to the Public Works Storage Yard at 820 W. Liberty Drive on the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon, keep all items in the trunk and stay in the vehicle after entering the event.
DVDs and cassettes, large home appliances, business electronics, hazardous and chemical waste, CFL light bulbs and batteries are not accepted at the event.
Add electronics to the curbside collection with stickers
A household that would rather set electronics at the curb than drive to the monthly event.
Cost & conditions
From $3.62 per sticker at the current contract year price, with a single small e-waste item requiring one sticker, a bundle five and a television or monitor ten. Wheaton LRS accounts, with the electronics collection requested from Lakeshore Recycling Systems at least one day before the garbage day.
Arrange it
Call Lakeshore Recycling Systems at 773-685-8811 at least one day before the garbage day, put the items at the curb with the right number of stickers by 6 a.m. on the pickup day, and clear personal data from computers and devices first.
Air conditioners, refrigerators and dehumidifiers are refused with electronics and go through the white goods program at ten stickers per item, and car, boat and sump pump batteries, smoke detectors and thermostats are also refused.
Pay the published rate for do-it-yourself construction debris
A household with small do-it-yourself construction or demolition debris that fits the size and weight limits.
Cost & conditions
$17 per cubic yard for do-it-yourself construction or demolition debris, plus a 24.00 pickup charge. Wheaton LRS accounts, with the debris placed in a 35 gallon container or in stacks that each stay within the size and weight limits.
Arrange it
Put the debris out on the garbage day in a 35 gallon container or in stacks with the required stickers attached, and keep each unit inside the limits so the crew can lift it.
Containers cannot weigh more than 50 pounds, stacks must weigh less than 50 pounds and be no more than 4 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, and household hazardous waste still goes to the DuPage County program rather than the debris pile.
Clothing and shoes, scrap metal, cooking oil, fluorescent tube lights, and electronics such as computers, laptops, servers, mice, printers, scanners, fax machines, wires, cords and cables, adapters, power supplies, ballasts, circuit boards, computer batteries, computer drives, modems, VCR and DVD players, cable and converter boxes, satellite receivers, video game consoles, docking stations, portable music players, electronic keyboards, stereos, CD players, cell phones, tablets, projectors, cameras, coffee pots, metal fans, humidifiers, holiday light strings, microwaves, speakers, toasters, tollway transponders and vacuums, plus televisions and monitors for a fee.
Televisions and monitors must be paid in cash with no change given or prepaid through the eWorks website, all items must be placed in the trunk before entering, volunteers cannot enter the passenger compartment and participants cannot exit the vehicle, textiles go in a clean plastic bag and small electronics in a cardboard box, and DVDs, cassettes, large home appliances, business electronics, hazardous and chemical waste, CFL light bulbs and batteries are not accepted.
Second Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon.
From $25 per television or monitor with a screen smaller than 21 inches, with larger screens charged 35 each and the other accepted items taken at the event without a charge. Wheaton residents, with cash or credit card accepted at the drop-off and no checks.
Prices, timing and the details that matter at your address.
How much does pickup cost?+
Choose your items to see the exact price. A standard sofa is $79 first and $29 additional. The highest first-item price applies once; every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Review any applicable sales tax and the final total before payment.
Can I book a pickup for today?+
Book by 2pm at your pickup address for same-day pickup, where available. Choose from the dates shown at checkout. Your booking is for a pickup day, and we text you when your hauler is on the way.
Do my items need to be outside when I book?+
You can book while your items are still inside. Arrange any indoor carrying and have everything outside and accessible according to your confirmation. We load and haul it away from there. Contact us before booking if your property has restricted access.
How does a Wheaton mattress leave the curb?+
As a bulk item on your garbage day with five LRS stickers attached, which is the count the city prints for a mattress, carpeting, a toilet and similar large pieces. Bulk items must weigh no more than 50 pounds, the stickers are sold at City Hall and the listed stores, and the collection is billed through the pay-as-you-throw account.Official guidance
Does Wheaton collect furniture at the curb?+
Yes. A couch or other piece too large to fit in the cart is a bulk item and needs five LRS stickers, with a maximum weight of 50 pounds. Put it at the curb on your garbage day, keep it out of the recycling cart, and buy the stickers beforehand at City Hall or one of the listed stores.Official guidance
How are Wheaton appliances collected?+
White goods are appliances containing CFC, HCFC, PCBs, mercury switches or other hazardous components, such as refrigerators, air conditioners and humidifiers, and they take ten LRS stickers. The city says all white goods are collected by a separate truck at the end of the day, and the curbside electronics program refuses air conditioners, refrigerators and dehumidifiers and sends them to this program instead.Official guidance
Where do Wheaton televisions and computers go?+
There are two routes. The monthly drop-off event runs the second Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon at the Public Works Storage Yard, 820 W. Liberty Drive, where televisions and monitors are charged per screen size and must be paid in cash or prepaid through eWorks. Curbside collection is also available if you call Lakeshore Recycling Systems at 773-685-8811 at least one day before the garbage day and attach one sticker for a single item, five for a bundle or ten for a television or monitor.Official guidance
Who collects trash in Wheaton?+
Lakeshore Recycling Systems does, under a city contract with a pay-as-you-throw program: residents use the LRS carts issued to the home, each cart is scanned when the truck empties it, and the account is billed only when a cart is set out. Pickup is on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday depending on the address, and LRS answers service and billing questions at 773-685-8811 or Service@LRSrecycles.com.Official guidance
What goes in the Wheaton recycling cart?+
Paper, cardboard cut into 3-foot squares or smaller, milk and juice cartons, aluminum foil and formed containers, steel and tin cans, metal pots and pans, brown, green and clear glass bottles and jars, and plastics numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 go unsorted into the blue recycling cart. Plastic bags, scrap metal, mirrors, window glass and Pyrex, dishes, light bulbs, number 6 plastic, polystyrene and hazardous waste containers cannot go in the cart, and excess recycling should be marked, kept under 50 pounds and arranged with Lakeshore Recycling Systems at 773-685-8811.Official guidance
