I had a driver by the name of Carlos, working on Kennedy rd in braidwood il, go out of his way to help me with my yard waste by coming back and knock on my door to see if I wanted my can out. I said yes and he not only took it out but brought back all 3 cans for me. Great person and worker!!! We need more like him thank you Carlos! read more

We had LRS for 5 years, my fiance would pay online, well they took it upon themselves to take money from our account on their own without us approving of it, we moved July 9th out of the service area, a month later they took a payment out of our account, my fiance called them 4 times before actually getting a cancellation reference number, we STILL have not gotten our money back that they took for the month we weren't even living there for. Terrible terrible!!!! I wouldn't have even left 1 star but had to leave something for this to post!!! read more

Horrible! they regularly forget to pick up our recycling! I've called numerous times w assurances the problem is fixed. After FIVE months, still no pick up!! Asked for refund for my payments and they Refused. incompetent and dishoneat. Republic was always dependable - I don't know why our city would change providers. Bring back Republic!! read more

Terrible. Called twice for carpet pickup. Said I could leave it at the curb and they never took it. Their website states less than 50# on bulk items. Ended up calling, again, they said I could drop it off. Got there and they said there would be a fee and was also told that they did in in-fact pickup 4 rolls, they did not. Awful communication and service. read more

* 0 STARS * It took me over 40 minutes and two days of combined wait time to reach a live representative to cancel my services. I have been disappointed with them from the beginning of them taking over Modern Waste. I'm thankful a new company came to our area so we could switch companies. 0/10 would not recommend. read more

LRS at it again. This driver just reversed his truck into our grass and didn't seem to care that he drove his truck over the curb onto our grass. After being confronted as to why is he driving his truck onto our grass he doesn't take responsibility for his actions. If you can't make the turn go to the next block.. read more

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Welcome to the swamp company. A simple request to get seasonal yard waste pickup has been met with clericals who don't know what the status of the account is. That is, when one reaches a human. Currently, while yelping about LRS (this review), the hold waiting time has been over 25 minutes. There is the insincere, meaningless 'apologize for the wait'. The option is to choose call back, but they don't call back. Thus, tortured waiting to speak to someone. If you're a fan of tinny piano music while holding--this is the place. It's interesting that when one calls the first phone option is to report a missed pickup. This falls into the category of 'if I could, I would give this business a zero star ranking'. After 35 minutes of hold, yard waste service was arranged. We'll see. read more

LRS has been our trash & recycling provider for several years & is the contracted provider thru our County. First we had very inconsistent service for several months. That was resolved but now we've had billing issues. LRS is paid thru auto-pay w/ my bank. However, they have now mis-applied my funds twice & even though my bank has provided proof of payment I am still getting constant texts & phone calls regarding delinquent payment. This is incredibly inep. read more

Avoid LRS if at all possible. Unfortunately for us they are the only firm the village uses. We scheduled ahead for appliance take away - moved it out to the curb- paid the $40 plus dollars in stickers only for them to miss the pick up. Contacted them on three different occasions with 3 different people - all told they would call dispatch. Never came. Finally found someone who said it had been scheduled to the next week - had people coming over for a party had to pay $200 for another firm to remove. They said they would give $20 credit for inconvenience. Horrible customer service who could not give an answer. Would have taken less than 5 minutes to dispatch someone and pick it up. Instead spent several hours with them trying to get it picked up. Do not use and we will not use for any other service if we can avoid it read more

Terrible services. We've been having issues since August with infrequent pick up. We are lucky if our recycling gets picked up every two week and we are paying very expensively for weekly services. Their customer service does not respond either. We have not had pickup in two weeks and we can't take out our building trash. Will be switching to a new service provider. Do not use them. read more

Lakeshore Recycling Systems - Recycling Center Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

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If you're reading this and thinking about choosing LRS for your waste management service, back away slowly, and go elsewhere. I will cover three areas that I think are instrumental in why this is likely the worst run business I've ever seen: 1. Cost: Services have risen over 150% from 2021 to 2025. All of these increases were done without any notice. Service agreement you say? What's that? 2. Customer service: multiple emails unreturned, no one answers the phone, no response at all. 3. Service: They seem to pick up the trash, so that's great. Unless it's a holiday, snows, or you need a change in service- if so, see #2. In short, this is a crap organization that will take you for any dollar they can. Especially if they see you on Autopay. And to LRS: don't bother trying to get me to change this review. Just keep doing what you're doing. read more

The online bill pay is terrible, it constantly says the email address is invalid even though they emailed me at it, it's always login failed, or the password reset they send won't work. It just sucks. read more

Wow these guys are really really bad. Last year, my neighbor was watching when the trash truck set one of my trash cans down in the icy snow and it cracked over my trashcan. She saw it happen and she called me to tell me. I literally called them 11 times asking them to come replace the trash trashcan that they broke. 11 times. That's gotta be your record. And the reason I'm writing this now is because I told them I was moving out on October 15 and they have continued to charge me every month and now it's mid January. They're still charging me. They're ignoring my calls and my emails. I don't know if you can choose somebody else though, but if you can, definitely do. They don't even put any minimal effort at all into this. Just not at all. read more

I used to get a senior rate from Waste Management. Without my approval, they switched me to LAKESHORE RECYCLING SYSTEM which charges a much higher rate. Why? No body seems to be able to explain! Walter Goldberg read more

Terrible customer service! Don't show up when they say they will!! On top of that the wait to get to talk to someone is over 45 minutes!!

They don't pick up! Not the garbage. Not the phone. For 3 weeks in a row they haven't picked up my yard waste left in their toter with a village sticker in the designated spot. I tried calling, but once you get past the IVR menu, nobody picks up the call. They simply don't pick up! read more

Horrible service. They miss our building's trash and recycling pickup days about 40% of the times. Calls and e-mails to complain get you nowhere. They are truly incompetent and escalating any issues makes them rude and I would argue that they retaliate by missing more pick up services. Their prices rise often and compared to four other companies we got quotes from, they are the most expensive in our neck of the woods. They will hold on to contract terms if you want to terminate it while they do not comply with their part of the deal at all. Stay away! read more

Very bad service and customer support I live in hickory hills Illinois they keep missing garbage pickup day and they mean very bad company and employees read more

Called LRS on multiple different occasions. Sometimes they pick up, most of the time they don't. If you do speak with someone, 9/10 you will be transferred to someone else "who can help." I have also spoken to not one but several extremely RUDE employees. They acted as if I was inconveniencing THEM!!! We just changed addresses, I just wanted to update my information. It has taken multiple calls/emails and the situation is still unresolved. Someone said it so accurately, this company deals with garbage and their customer service is garbage. Terrible. Edit: finally spoke with someone, Gracie, who was wonderful. Fixed my problem in about 35 seconds. Which could have been done months ago. Thank you Gracie. read more

Do not do business with this company. I signed a contract with Advanced Disposal in 2019. LRS bought them out a year or two ago. Since then they have raised my price 300%. There are fees on the bill that did not exist before they are simply making things up to charge more. I asked to cancel the contract which was signed in 2019. They told it me automatically renewed for another 5 years in 2024 and they want approximately $3000 to cancel it. When I complained they had their lawyer contact me and threaten to take me to court. Apparently they can raise their prices however much they want whenever they want and this is totally ok. Even if I have to pay the the $3000 I will recoup that money in about 10 months. I will save $300 per month by switching to another garbage service. Avoid this company like the plague. read more

In our area anytime there is national holiday in a week it takes them forever to get back on track. In the meantime dumpsters are over-flowing with garbage onto the ground/parking lot. Hasn't been dumped now in about 12 days and it's supposed to be once ever week. Anyone can understand a day or so delay with a holiday, but...... And the thing is this has happened several times before, same problem. One time it was about two weeks before it finally got dumped. Causes health concerns, can draw wild animals and is not acceptable. I don't like living very close to this. read more

Lakeshore Recycling Systems - Recycling Center Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

If i could give them a 0, I would. Christmas tree has been sitting on the curb since beginning of January. Called on 01/26/2026 for a missed pick up and was told a work order was put in for pick up on 01/28/2026. Tree was not picked up so I called back and was told tree was too big and needed to be cut down for pickup on 02/04/2026. I guess they were afraid they were gonna break a nail by picking it up? Tree was cut down and guess what? As of 02/12/2026, tree is still on the curb. ABSOLUTELY WORST SERVICE EVER. I will be contacting my village to see what alternatives we have for service providers. Maybe with enough complaints the village will cancel their contract with these losers. read more

Absolutely TERRIBLE SERVICE. I have been on hold for support multiple times for over 25 minutes at a time, and I ultimately give up and try again another day. I am currently on hold again going on 20 minutes. At this point, we should receive a credit for the amount of time we have spent just trying to reach someone at this company. Our account rep also NEVER responds. Billing is frequently incorrect with random charges appearing. FIND ANOTHER COMPANY TO PICK UP YOUR TRASH. read more

I AM the daughter and I am representing my 90 year old mother ON A FIXED BUDGET. LRS RECYCLING CONTINUES TO CHARGE my mother for services that have NOT been received. She never signed a contract with them the city we live in did. TODAY our bill is over 1000$ and continues to increase although they have not provided services for 1 year and 6 months. This is illegal yet large companies continue to do what they want. I have filed complaints with the company. It took them 4 months to come up with the initial resolution a year ago and I waited 2 additional months for a response. THEN they changed the amount and still wanted us to pay for several months of no services provided. I contacted all upper management and they had a sales person call me trying to manipulate me into paying for services not provided. How they are able to do this? I have also contact the BBB with no response. LRS TOOK NO ACTION!!!! PLEASE help if you know where else I may be able to file a complaint. No wonder they grew so fast. I would be interested in filing a class action lawsuit against them if you've had issues with them charging you and you DID NOT receive services. please contact me. I am looking for a resolution. IM TIRED IF BIG BUSINESS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE! Thank you! read more

Terrible. Canceled service last month and am still being charged. Can't get a hold of our rep for months.

They have failed to credit payments, and have suspended our commercial service three time now by not applying payments. They do pick up the phone for commercial customers. I gave up after 30-40 minutes on hold twice. If you go through a brokerage for your trash pickup, ask if there are better choices for a hauler. read more

We signed up for unlimited yard refuse and pickup went well last 2 weeks. This week no refuse pickup and no note. Sales contact punted me to Customer Service, on hold now for 15minutes and no answer. read more

Lakeshore Recycling Systems - Recycling Center Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

They missed recycling pickup in my area twice in the past month. They kept promising a rescheduled pickup but it never happened. Liars! I have contacted LRS multiple times at the email provided. Each time I receive an apology and a promise that the next day a reschedule pickup will occur. There is NO point in contacting customer service if they just tell you a lie. Either a rescheduled route was entered into their system or it was not. Either the driver ignored the request (which is incompetence) or the customer service agent lied to me (which is worse). read more

Have a porta John for 6 weeks and it's been cleaned out only two times. I've called over and over. I'm told they will have someone here in a day or two. They just blow smoke, nothing ever happens. Horrible service. Same with my dumpster. Had to call two times to get a switch out. Don't use them. read more

LRS took our garbage can 6 weeks ago and won't give us a new one. Between my husband, our property management company, and myself, we have contacted them 10 times over the last month and a half with no response. Our garbage is piling up and this place has ghosted us. read more

Unacceptable getting snow last couple days maybe an inch or two I live next-door to a apartment complex found out they couldn't pick up the two dumpsters because of snow do your job now there's garbage on the ground will attract rats unacceptable. It's hard to find the right people nowadays to do something so simplenow it's the weekend and they won't be there till probably Monday . read more

Awful to call. You cannot speak to anyone. I am stressed selling my home spending over an hour trying to talk to someone getting transferred once I speak to someone. They deal with garbage and their customer service is garbage 100%. 1 star just to share the review read more

They never pick up calls. I am currently still on hold without hearing a human at all for the last 20minutes. A storm destroyed my garage with cans inside almost two weeks ago and I've left many messages, they don't respond and so I have no trash pickup at all. Calling the city now. (Waukegan, north of Chicago) read more

This is easily the worst waste management company in history. They have been trying to bill me even though I paid for a full year of service. There trying to bill me for organic waste which I didn't sign up for. Lastly they are IMPOSSIBLE to contact. Via email they never respond and on the phone it just disconnects. Unreal read more

if you want to be on hold for two days and get no call back, this is the company for you!

This company drivers are the worst I have ever seen in my life (Gurnee) area. The driver makes no attempt to do there job right. I tossed out a toilet and had it in a construction bag didn't even get out of his truck. I had several other items in bags no attempt to pick up I wish we could go back to waste management there were efficient, punctual and courteous people. read more

I reside in Elgin and recent switch to LRS has been terrible. It is more expensive, yet they do a horrible job. One time they damaged my gutter during a pick up- they come late in the evening, and sometimes they leave trash and refuse to return. The customer service line never answers, return calls or emails. They truly suck! read more

We live in Northbrook and I'm really happy with the quality of service we've received through LRS. A shout out to Jasmine in customer service who helped me with furniture pick up. I had contacted so many charities about furniture I wanted to donate-with photos. Some of these 'charities' were scams: pay for your 'donation' to be picked up for $150 and then another 'donation' to dispose of it. And lots of the charities don't even want it: Habitat, Salvation Army, Goodwill. I didn't want to list on Facebook, because I needed these items removed quickly. LRS put my mind at ease picking up these items with our regular service. Thank you, Jasmine! You put my mind at ease. read more

I wish I could give 0 stars. Horrible and lazy workers. I miss WM, they got the job done!

I wish I could recommend the service used by my condo association, but they are consistently awful. They will skip or miss pickups, and every time you call, exposed to be on hold for at least 10 minutes. Don't take my word for it- try yourself! Call their number and hit "3" for residential. You won't be answered any time soon. Last two times I called, someone answered, asked a question, then she put me on hold literally mid-sentence. They will promise a scheduled pickup, or a re-visit for a missed pickup, and no one shows up. They will forget to lock your dumpster (and they have the only key) meaning that your trash WILL be strewn across the alley way. Run, don't walk, from LRS. They're not recycling, they're just trash. read more