Macon County, IL Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum removal frequency
- once per month per dwelling
- Hauler-offered service
- weekly refuse pickup
- Landscape waste pickup
- 6 weeks spring (Apr 1), 6 weeks fall (Nov 1)
- No-service fine
- $50 per verified offense
- Earliest collection time
- 6:00 a.m.
Summary
Unincorporated Macon County requires every occupied dwelling to subscribe to regular refuse collection, with a monthly minimum removal frequency under § 50.02(A). Licensed haulers must actually offer weekly refuse pickup and seasonal landscape-waste pickup for six weeks each spring and fall under § 50.03(K).
(A) It shall be the duty of every tenant, lessee, or occupant of any dwelling, tenement house, lodging house, hotel, restaurant, boarding house, or other person, persons, firm or corporation, on whose premises kitchen and household refuse accumulates, to subscribe to regular refuse collection service ... The minimum refuse removal frequency for each property with an occupied dwelling shall be once per month. ... Each licensee must offer the following minimum service level to residential customers: (1) Weekly refuse removal (a less frequent option may be offered in extreme cases in which the dwelling is not continually occupied and the hauler is willing). (2) Weekly landscape waste removal for six weeks in the spring beginning April 1 and for six weeks in the fall beginning November 1 of each year.
Full Breakdown
02(A) makes it the duty of every tenant, lessee, or occupant of a dwelling, lodging house, hotel, restaurant, or boarding house where kitchen and household refuse accumulates to subscribe to regular refuse collection service and keep watertight, tight-lidded containers sized to hold all refuse between pickups. The section sets a floor, not a ceiling: the minimum refuse removal frequency for any occupied dwelling is once per month. 03(K), part of the county's refuse-hauler licensing chapter, requires every licensee to actually offer residential customers weekly refuse removal (a less frequent option applies only when a dwelling is not continually occupied and the hauler agrees) and weekly landscape-waste removal for six weeks starting April 1 in spring and six weeks starting November 1 in fall, covering grass clippings, shrubbery cuttings, leaves, and tree limbs. 03(O). 02(B).
Violations & Fines
An occupant who does not maintain regular trash disposal is fined $50 for each reported and verified offense under § 50.02(B). A hauler that fails to meet the weekly-collection or seasonal landscape-waste minimums in § 50.03(K) risks license suspension or non-renewal by the Macon County Environmental Management Department under § 50.03(E) and (Q).
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