Trash & Recycling in Peoria County, IL (2026)
3 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Peoria County, Illinois.
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Bin Placement Rules
Peoria County bars outdoor storage of refuse containers inside a required road setback, but carves out a specific exception for temporary curbside placement on collection day in residential districts. Once containers are set out, county recycling law makes tampering with them a separately fineable offense.
Peoria County Refuse Container Placement Rules
Some RestrictionsPeoria County Unified Development Ordinance § 6.1.2(2)(b)
No outdoor storage of goods and materials or refuse container shall be located within any required road setback, except for the temporary placement of refuse containers for curbside pick-up in residential districts.
Recycling Requirements
Illinois's Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act forced Peoria County, population over 179,000, to file a municipal waste plan with the Illinois EPA by March 1, 1991, and to build a recycling program into that plan under Section 6. The county reviews and readopts the plan every five years, and the state statute lets the county require curbside separation, though Peoria's own ordinance currently keeps household sorting voluntary.
Peoria County Curbside Recycling Program Rules
Some Restrictions415 ILCS 15/4
(a) By March 1, 1991, each county with a population of 100,000 or more and each municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more, and by March 1, 1995, each county with a population of less than 100,000, shall submit to the Agency an officially adopted plan for the management of municipal waste generated within its boundaries. Such plan shall conform with the waste management hierarchy estab...
Illegal Dumping
Dumping garbage, trash or refuse anywhere in Peoria County that isn't an approved disposal site is against the law under Section 11-1 of the county code, whether the site sits on public or private land. Because the section carries no fine of its own, a violator faces the county's general penalty: up to $1,000, with every additional day the waste sits there counted as its own separate offense.
Peoria County Illegal Dumping Penalties
Heavy RestrictionsPeoria County Code § 11-1
Except as otherwise authorized by state law, it shall be unlawful for any person to dump or dispose of any garbage, trash or refuse on any site which has not been approved by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency or the county health department.
Trash & Recycling by City in Peoria County
1 cities in Peoria County have their own trash & recycling rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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