Bolingbrook, IL Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 42-5, Residential bulk container storage and placement for collection, governs developments that use shared bulk dumpsters instead of individual carts. Subsection (a) requires bulk containers to be maintained clean and sanitary with tight-fitting lids kept shut, with sanitation handled per the village's contract with its scavenger service, and puts responsibility on residents and the development's association or management to keep containers sanitary. Subsection (b) requires that anything deposited in a bulk container first be bagged in a one-way garbage bag, tightly closed by stapling or twist-tying; depositing loose refuse or rubbish directly into a bulk container is unlawful.

For yard debris and large brush, Sec. 42-7 supplies the applicable large-item rules: landscape waste other than branches must go in a Kraft paper bag no larger than 33 gallons and 50 pounds, while tree branches, brush and twigs must instead be tied and bundled with natural-fiber string, rope or twine into bundles not exceeding 50 pounds, no more than four feet long, no more than two feet in diameter, and containing no limb thicker than three inches. 5 feet from a lot line. Both bulk containers and bundled brush follow the same curb-timing rule as regular carts under Sec. the day before pickup. Violations of either section are enforced under Sec. 00 per offense with escalating penalties for repeats within 12 months.