Garbage & Recycling Collection
Garbage Service Information- Waste Management
In order to provide garbage service to residents at a discounted rate, and to provide consistent services, the City of Tuscola contracts with an outside disposal firm for all City of Tuscola residential waste disposal. Currently, the firm who holds the contract is Waste Management. The monthly fee of $15.50 is added to the residential water and sewer bill, and then all monthly collections are remitted in whole to Waste Management by the City of Tuscola. Residents are required to participate in garbage disposal services. Those residences OUTSIDE the corporate limits of the City of Tuscola are not required to use Waste Management and do not pay garbage services on their water and sewer bills. Those non-residents must deal directly with their chosen garbage service provider.
Waste Management – CHARLESTON – F5
6111 W STATE STREET
CHARLESTON, IL 61920
Customer Service - 800-964-8988
GARBAGE COLLECTON GUIDELINES
- All garbage must be bagged and placed in a garbage tote. Totes are provided by Waste Management at no charge. Contact Waste Management at 800-964-8988 to request a tote.
- Place garbage bags and containers curbside by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day (Wednesday)
- Due to government regulations, items that cannot be accepted are: tires, paint, auto parts, animals, appliances containing cfc’s, hazardous waste
GARBAGE SERVICE HOLIDAYS
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New
Years Day
If your collection day falls on a holiday, garbage collection will be the next day. If your
collection day falls after the holiday, please put out your trash on the regular day, but
note that pick-up may be delayed one day.
Waste Management offers curbside recycling to residents located in the City limits of Tuscola. Call Waste Management at 800-964-8988 for more information and to request a recycle tote. There is no additional fee for the recycling program or the recycling tote for City residents with garbage service.
For disposal of large garbage items such as furniture, please visit Graber Building Supply (former Tuscola Home Center) at 407 E Southline Road to purchase a special waste tag. Affix the tag to the item and set it out on Thursdays. Bulk pick items is on Thursday only.
Bryant's Recycling is located west of town and accepts metal and other items for recycling. For information, please contact Bryant's directly at 217-253-2477
Waste Management has informed the City, and local customers, of its intention to stop alley pickup in most locations in Tuscola. A postcard (image below) to that effect was mailed out late December 2022 to residents in the affected areas. Waste Management intends to begin this policy of curbside only pick up the week of January 16, which is garbage collection day Wednesday, January 18 in the City. The first week, both curbsides and existing alley pickup locations will be serviced, with reminder tags placed on the alley locations that have garbage but will not be serviced in future pickups.
Residents with questions about this change, or who wish to request a hardship waiver of this policy, should call Waste Management at either 800-964-8988.
Pickup day for garbage in all of the City of Tuscola is Wednesday. Waste Management request that garbage be placed out for pickup by 6:00 a.m.
If your collection day falls on a holiday, then collection will be the next day. If your collection day falls after the holiday, please put out your trash on the regular day, but note that pick-up may be delayed one day.
Waste Management holidays include: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Years Day. For more specific information about garbage services please contact Waste Management at 866-909-4458.
Residents are required to use a garbage tote provided by the garbage company. Residents can call Waste Management 800-964-8988 to request a tote. There is no fee for the tote.
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New
Years Day
If your collection day falls on a holiday, garbage collection will be the next day. If your
collection day falls after the holiday, please put out your trash on the regular day, but
note that pick-up may be delayed one day.
The fee is $15.50 per month, which is included on your water bill.
Waste Management at 800-964-8988
Disposal tickets for large items may be purchased at Tuscola Graber Building Supply (formerly Tuscola Home Center). The cost is $15.00. Once a ticket is purchased, it should be placed on the item and the item put out on THURSDAY for pickup.
Here is specific information from Waste Management:
Waste Management offers curbside recycling to residents located in the City limits of Tuscola. Call Waste Management at 800-964-8988 for more information and to request a recycle tote. There is no fee for the recycling program or the recycling tote.
Yard waste may be taken to the landscape waste facility located on the first road south of the railroad track going east off of Prairie Street. No limbs over 4 inches in diameter and no plastic bags are allowed. Commercial contractors are NOT allowed to use the landscape waste facility.
The landscape waste pile is managed by the City of Tuscola and in NO CIRCUMSTANCES should anyone, not employed by the City, burn or otherwise attempt to manage the debris.
Monday - Friday: 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday: 7:00 AM to Noon
No, the City does not pick up yard waste unless it is storm debris. Storm debris must by placed out by the street shortly following the storm.
No, city codes and state laws do not allow burning of any material within the city or the city’s zoning jurisdiction (within 1 1/2 miles surrounding the City corporate limits).
Exceptions: Recreational fires (usually for cooking), approved fireplaces and wood burning stoves, closed furnace incinerators approved by the fire chief, or environmental burns approved by the fire chief.
Contact information for the fire chief is available on our Fire Department page.
Waste Managment offers an optional curbside recycling pick up service. To learn more about the service, call at 800-964-8988. If you already have signed up for the service, the 2023 schedule is below:
