Illinois Landfills, Transfer Stations & Dumps
Where to dump in Illinois, county by county, with the real hours, rates and free programs from each county's own pages. The finder shows 69 landfills, transfer stations and drop-off sites from the state Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA)'s data and operators' own listings; the places below are checked by hand.
Illinois counties and cities
How disposal works in Illinois
Illinois has fewer than 40 active household-trash landfills, most of them privately run, so the price depends on where you live: $63 a ton at the county-owned Knox County Landfill, one free load a week for Peoria County residents at the Peoria Transfer Station, and call-for-price landfills in Rock Island County. Around Chicago, most people haul to private transfer stations that take the public; SWANCC's Glenview Transfer Station in Des Plaines posts its rate, $100 a ton with a $25 minimum.
State law keeps car batteries, yard waste, appliances, whole tires, TVs and computers out of Illinois landfills, so counties run separate pickup and drop-off programs for them.
We're writing Illinois up place by place: 8 places are live, and our guide to what it costs to dump in Illinois puts their rates side by side. The finder covers every active household-trash landfill on Illinois EPA's list, the state's permanent household hazardous waste sites, and Chicago-area transfer stations open to the public.