Refuse and Recycling
Buffalo Grove offers waste and recycling services through WM (formerly Waste Management). These services include At Your Door (AYD) special collection service, which allows residents to schedule a convenient pickup for hazardous and difficult-to-recycle materials, such as electronics, televisions, paint, chemicals and other household hazardous waste (HHW) items. Beginning April 1, 2024, organic food scraps can be mixed in with yard and landscape waste.
Waste and Recycling
At Your Door (AYD) Overview
- Waste Management’s AYD Special Collection allows BG residents to schedule pick-up for hazardous and difficult-to-recycle materials, such as electronics, televisions and chemicals. View a full list of eligible and ineligible items.
- AYD Service is included in resident’s monthly refuse and recycling rates.
- Contact WM to schedule. Contact Waste Management to request a home collection of your items and to schedule a pick-up. Have your list of unwanted materials ready. Please call 1-800-449-7587 (7:00am-7:00pm CT, Monday - Friday) or visit the At Your Door website.
- Get the kit in the mail. You will receive a kit in the mail. Open the collection kit and follow the instructions.
- Place out your materials. On your pick-up date place materials out before 7:00 am.
Enter your address below to find out when your pick up is!
To begin service, visit the Waste Management website to set up an account.
Waste Management provides residents with a "Recycling 101 Guidelines" page so that residents know what and how to appropriately recycle items.
Pick-Up Schedule
Landscape and yard waste is picked up on your recycling collection day from April 1 to December 15.
What can I put my waste in?
Landscape and yard waste should be contained in 32 gallon special yard waste paper bags. Also acceptable are 32 gallon rigid, unlined waste containers marked with a compost/organics decal (pick one up at Village Hall) that can be recognized by drivers.
What CAN be put out?
Branches and twigs
You can always bundle branches/limbs/twigs (under 3 inches diameter) for free collection. Just make sure bundles are stacked in the parkway with the thick ends of the limbs near the curb. Bundles should be tied with a biodegradable twine or string, be no longer than 4 feet and no larger than 2 feet diameter and weigh less than 45 pounds.
What CAN NOT be put out?
Landscape and yard waste is picked up on your recycling collection day from April 1 to December 15.
What can I put my waste in?
Landscape and yard waste should be contained in 32 gallon special yard waste paper bags. Also acceptable are 32 gallon rigid, unlined waste containers marked with a compost/organics decal (pick one up at Village Hall) that can be recognized by drivers.
What CAN be put out?
- Grass clippings.
- Leaves.
- Vegetative plants.
- Food waste.
- Solid dairy.
- Baked goods or grains.
- Produce.
- Floral.
- Brush and small trees (see bundles information below)
Branches and twigs
You can always bundle branches/limbs/twigs (under 3 inches diameter) for free collection. Just make sure bundles are stacked in the parkway with the thick ends of the limbs near the curb. Bundles should be tied with a biodegradable twine or string, be no longer than 4 feet and no larger than 2 feet diameter and weigh less than 45 pounds.
What CAN NOT be put out?
- Trees larger than 3.5 inches in diameter.
- Dirt.
- Stones.
- Pine cones.
- Sod.
- Meat and bones.
- Liquids, grease and oil.
- Biodegradable paper and plastic products.
- Paper products (pizza boxes, paper plates/cups/towels/napkins/bags, newspapers, cardboard, coffee filters).
- Diapers, wipes and bath tissue.
- Animal waste and pet litter.
- Plastic bags and plastic containers.
- Wood, glass and metal.
- Rocks, bricks and concrete.
Residents can place out one oversized item per week per household for pick-up at no additional cost. Residential Units will be responsible to contact Waste Management and make arrangements to pick-up any additional overized items.
Refuse and recycling will not be picked up on the following holidays:
In the days following these holidays, pick-ups will take place one day later than usual through Saturday.
- New Year's Day (January 1)
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas (December 25)
In the days following these holidays, pick-ups will take place one day later than usual through Saturday.
Residents can dispose their prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs at the drop-off location at the Village of Buffalo Grove Police Station (46 Raupp Blvd, Buffalo Grove, IL), which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This drop-off program is possible through the Village’s partnership with the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC).
This drop-off program is possible through the Village’s partnership with the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC).
| Pick-up Services | Rates* | |
| Single Family Unit unlimited solid waste, recycling and yard waste with cart |
$24.80/month | |
| Single Family Unit (Most Common) unlimited solid waste, recycling and yard waste without cart |
$23.70/month | |
| Multifamily Unit/Central Container unlimited solid waste and recycling |
$17.40/month | |
| Additional Weekly Pickup | $5.04/month | |
| *Services provided by the Solid Waste Agency of Cook County (SWANCC), which are $6.15 per single family household, per month, and $5.05 per month for multi-family residents, are included in the above rates. Waste Management offers a price reduction of 10% for Senior Citizens. This discount does not apply to the SWANCC fee. |
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Starting April 1, 2024, you can begin mixing in organic food waste with your yard and landscape waste. Acceptable organics, like produce food scraps can be mixed together with landscape waste and placed at the curb to be collected, recycled and put to work at local compost facilities! These mixed organic items should be placed in yard waste bags, or if you use a container, please pickup a special organics label from Village Hall to clearly mark this container for WM drivers. View a complete list of acceptable and unacceptable organic items below:
Acceptable mixed organics:
Unacceptable organics:
Acceptable mixed organics:
- Yard waste.
- Food waste.
- Solid dairy.
- Baked goods or grains.
- Produce.
- Floral.
Unacceptable organics:
- Meat and bones.
- Liquids, grease and oil.
- Biodegradable paper and plastic products.
- Paper products (pizza boxes, paper plates/cups/towels/napkins/bags, newspapers, cardboard, coffee filters).
- Diapers, wipes and bath tissue.
- Animal waste and pet litter.
- Plastic bags and plastic containers.
- Wood, glass and metal.
- Rocks, bricks and concrete.