diff --git a/src/lib/icon/icon-registry.ts b/src/lib/icon/icon-registry.ts
index 2d6c2bac5f4..cf0c3a0afa6 100644
--- a/src/lib/icon/icon-registry.ts
+++ b/src/lib/icon/icon-registry.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   Optional,
   SecurityContext,
   SkipSelf,
+  OnDestroy,
 } from '@angular/core';
 import {DomSanitizer, SafeResourceUrl, SafeHtml} from '@angular/platform-browser';
 import {forkJoin, Observable, of as observableOf, throwError as observableThrow} from 'rxjs';
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ class SvgIconConfig {
  * - Loads icons from URLs and extracts individual icons from icon sets.
  */
 @Injectable({providedIn: 'root'})
-export class MatIconRegistry {
+export class MatIconRegistry implements OnDestroy {
   private _document: Document;
 
   /**
@@ -310,6 +311,12 @@ export class MatIconRegistry {
     return observableThrow(getMatIconNameNotFoundError(key));
   }
 
+  ngOnDestroy() {
+   this._svgIconConfigs.clear();
+   this._iconSetConfigs.clear();
+   this._cachedIconsByUrl.clear();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns the cached icon for a SvgIconConfig if available, or fetches it from its URL if not.
    */
diff --git a/tools/public_api_guard/lib/icon.d.ts b/tools/public_api_guard/lib/icon.d.ts
index 08e30d52d72..fcf6153a654 100644
--- a/tools/public_api_guard/lib/icon.d.ts
+++ b/tools/public_api_guard/lib/icon.d.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export interface MatIconLocation {
 export declare class MatIconModule {
 }
 
-export declare class MatIconRegistry {
+export declare class MatIconRegistry implements OnDestroy {
     constructor(_httpClient: HttpClient, _sanitizer: DomSanitizer, document: any);
     addSvgIcon(iconName: string, url: SafeResourceUrl): this;
     addSvgIconInNamespace(namespace: string, iconName: string, url: SafeResourceUrl): this;
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export declare class MatIconRegistry {
     getDefaultFontSetClass(): string;
     getNamedSvgIcon(name: string, namespace?: string): Observable<SVGElement>;
     getSvgIconFromUrl(safeUrl: SafeResourceUrl): Observable<SVGElement>;
+    ngOnDestroy(): void;
     registerFontClassAlias(alias: string, className?: string): this;
     setDefaultFontSetClass(className: string): this;
 }