DuPage County, IL Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Zoning Ordinance Sec. 9(A) requires that all outside trash containers for any nonsingle-family detached development located in the R-1 district be enclosed with fences, masonry walls or landscaping that provides a full landscape screen according to Section 37-419. The duty is triggered whenever a nonsingle-family detached use, such as a church, school or townhome project approved as a conditional use, sits inside an R-1 zone that is otherwise reserved for detached single-family homes. 9(A) invokes the full-screen standard specifically for trash enclosures. 2(F) when topography, soil conditions, an unusually shaped lot or safety considerations make normal compliance impractical; any substitute must still be equal to or better than normal compliance in quality, effectiveness, durability and hardiness, and approval does not set a precedent for other properties.

An existing tree survey and a landscape plan, stamped by a registered Illinois landscape architect for nonresidential projects, are submitted to the County's Department of Development and Economic Planning as part of the same review that clears a project's transition-yard and parking-lot screening obligations. 2(E), such as single-family lots with no transition yard or zoning relief, are not swept into this container-screening duty because it reaches only nonsingle-family detached development.