Village Services | Yardwaste

All yardwaste must be contained in either are 33-gallon brown paper bag, specifically designed for yard debris with a Nu-Way disposal yardwaste sticker affixed to each bag, or may be placed in a 90-gallon cart. For pricing information, please call the Nu-Way office at
(708) 479-9555.

Branches may be cut into 3' or 4' lengths, no larger than 6" in diameter, and placed into the bags or tied into reasonable sized bundles. Each bag and or bundle must have a yardwaste sticker attached for the material to be collected.

No plastic bags or any household garbage or wrappings should be mixed in the yardwaste bags or carts. We will not be able to collect any yardwaste containers that have these contaminants in them.

Yardwaste will be collected one time per week on the same day as your household waste from April 1 through November 30.

Free Leaf Pick-Up Period

We would like to remind Village residents that the Village of New Lenox offers its residents an alternative to leaf burning. Each Fall during a 6-week period and each Spring during a 2-week period, leaves that are bagged in the brown paper yardwaste bags are collected free of charge to the residents.

As part of the Village’s contract with our disposal service, Village residents who place their leaves in brown paper yardwaste bags do not have to affix yardwaste stickers on the bags during the 6-week during the Fall and 2-week period during the Spring. These yardwaste bags are collected by Nu-Way on the same day as your regular garbage collection.

The fall free leaf collection usually starts the middle week of October with the ending day typically the last Saturday in November, which coincides with the annual end-dates of landscape waste facilities’ season. Our Spring free leaf collection period typically begins the first week of April and runs for two weeks.

Please note: Yardwaste bags filled with grass clippings, garden waste, and brush still require that yardwaste stickers be affixed to each bag or bundle.

Free Leaf Bags for Senior Citizens

In addition to the free leaf collection for bagged leaves, the Village offers ten free yardwaste bags per Fall for our Senior Citizen Households. Each fall, our senior residents are provided ten free yardwaste bags as part of our refuse contract with NuWay Disposal.

We would like to remind Village residents who are Senior Citizens (over the age of 65) to stop by Village Hall to get their packet of ten free yardwaste bags. Bags will be available from mid-September through the end of Novmber.

Nu-Way Yardwaste Stickers:
Our refuse stickers are available for purchase at the following locations: