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St. Charles trash pickup: cost and carts

Trash service in St. Charles costs about $26 a month ($312 a year) for the usual option (65-gallon refuse cart (recycling toter included)); by size, service runs $25 to $27 a month. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS). Billed by: LRS (monthly fee, billed quarterly by LRS).

CartA monthA year
35-gallon refuse cart (recycling toter included)$24.68$296
65-gallon refuse cart (recycling toter included)$26.04$312
95-gallon refuse cart (recycling toter included)$27.41$329

Residents can instead use the sticker program, $4.05 per refuse sticker.

Changing your cart

Contact Lakeshore Recycling at 630-581-8650 or StCharles@LRSrecycles.com; a $25 exchange/delivery fee applies.

Checked October 30, 2026. Every number here comes from the public sources listed, matched by our checker.

Rates change every year; this page shows when it was last checked. Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

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