Glenview Transfer Station (SWANCC, Des Plaines, Illinois) — Hours, Rates & Rules
The Glenview Transfer Station, run by the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC), is at 3 Providence Way in Des Plaines, on the east side of Des Plaines River Road just north of Central Road. Residents can drop off trash and debris here, not just contractors.
Loads are weighed: $100 a ton with a $25 minimum for 500 pounds or less. Weekday hours are split, 6 to 10 a.m. and 2 to 3:30 p.m., and Saturdays run 6 a.m. to noon. Payment is credit or debit card only.
Disposal sites in Des Plaines
Glenview Transfer Station (SWANCC)
Transfer station
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC)
3 Providence Way, Des Plaines, IL 60016 Directions ↗
Closed 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays. Credit or debit card only (no cash, no tap-to-pay). A high-visibility vest is required; bring one or buy one at the scale house.
From SWANCC's transfer station page. Pay before you leave, inside the scale house, with a physical credit, debit or prepaid card; cash, phone payments and tap-to-pay aren't accepted. Frequent visitors can keep a card on file tied to their license plates.
Your whole vehicle is weighed on the way in, you unload it yourself inside the building (no help is provided), and it's weighed again on the way out; then you pull over and pay. There's often a line, but it moves quickly. A high-visibility safety vest is required.
The station is busiest between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and it's closed to residents and contractors then. Vehicles 24 feet or longer may be turned away when unloading space is tight; call (847) 390-6820 first. It closes on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yard waste isn't accepted from residents, and neither are hazardous waste, chemicals, liquids, batteries or paint.
Illinois keeps a long list of things out of its landfills: car batteries (since 1990), yard waste (since 1990), appliances that still have their Freon, mercury switches or PCB parts (since 1994), whole tires, and, since January 1, 2012, TVs, computers, monitors, printers and other electronics. That's why landfills turn them away and counties run separate programs for them.
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