A container on private property, your own driveway or a fenced job site, needs no village permit in Lisle. The village regulates the business of removing debris rather than the container itself.
Lisle licenses two separate activities, and the distinction works in our favor. A scavenger is defined as a business engaged in curbside waste collection, and only one license of that kind may be issued for residential premises. A junk removal service is defined as a business that does not provide curbside service but removes and hauls away junk from commercial or residential premises, and the village may issue an unlimited number of those. Commercial premises are open to unlimited licenses of either kind.
Point-to-point container work sits in the junk removal class, which is the uncapped one, and the village must issue the license where the application meets the requirements. The term runs from 1 January to 31 December and the fee is not prorated whatever date you apply.
Two conditions are worth flagging. The application has to list the make, model, and plate number of every vehicle, disclose any previous revocation by another authority, and name anyone holding seven and a half percent or more of the company. Liability cover of a million dollars for each occurrence and two million in aggregate must name the village as an additional insured, and a cancellation revokes the license automatically.
One limb cuts the other way and you should hear it from us. A junk removal license holder is expressly barred from providing recycling services to any customer in the village, which may affect a container intended for clean concrete or clean metal recovery. Your account manager will confirm how that applies to your material before anything is booked.
For a street question, Village Hall is at 925 Burlington Avenue on 630-271-4100, and the Administration and Engineering office is on 630-271-4180.