Bloomington, IL trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Wednesday.

Wednesday is what one Bloomington address returned on October 26, 2026.

Carts must be placed in the parkway or at the end of the driveway near the street no earlier than 2 p.m. the day before pickup and no later than 6 a.m. on the day of pickup.

Emptied carts must be removed from the curb no later than 9 a.m. on the day following pickup, and stored where they are not visible from the street.

Carts must sit at least 4 feet from any objects that would get in the way of curbside pickup and at least 10 feet away from vehicles parked in the street.

Point the arrows on the cart lid toward the street and keep the lid closed; overloaded carts with an open lid will not be collected.

Read from the official Bloomington guidance on August 23, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Bloomington depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

The example days above are read from City of Bloomington Public Works Solid Waste and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Bloomington publishes its collection routes as a map (City of Bloomington): each route area carries a fixed weekday for trash; the lookup reads that area for your address.

We last checked Bloomington on August 17, 2026: 6 of 6 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Bloomington's pickup days.

City of Bloomington Public Works Solid Waste publishes trash days for Bloomington; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Bloomington Public Works Solid Waste, not here.

The nearest guides to Bloomington are Normal, Peoria, Decatur and Champaign. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.