Bulk Trash Pickup Vs Junk Removal

Why Choose Junk Removal Over Bulk Trash Pickup?

You’ve got big trash, now what? If you are a residential homeowner who needs junk removal, you might think the next step is simple. Drag your junk out to the curb and let the city’s waste management services cart it away. Hold on for a minute there, homeowner. Have you checked your city’s waste management page and read all the extensive guidelines and regulations you need to follow? Have you considered the environmental impact of skipping straight to throwing your item away?

Depending on your city and the extent of your trash, you could wind up paying fees or fines for collections. That is, of course, assuming you put out your bulk trash at the exact right time and you have checked to make sure your items are not prohibited. 

What’s the alternative? Call Junk.com and have our expert junk haulers come and pick up your junk the same day you call at a fair price. 

Here are five reasons you should choose junk removal instead of your city’s bulk trash pickup when you have big junk to get rid of:

Reason 1: Convenience of Junk Removal Service

When you need bulk trash pickup, you have to go find your city’s website and search for a page on sanitation services that will tell you the exact date and time you need to put out your bulk trash. Do not miss this window because the local government webpage for Denver, CO warns residents that bulk trash items set out at the wrong time will be considered illegal dumping, and they’re not an outlier. 

Beyond getting the correct date and time, Dallas, TX also has a lovely list of placement rules including don’t place bulk trash where it will interfere with traffic in the street or prohibit pedestrians from walking on the sidewalk. You also can’t place bulk trash within five feet of a mailbox, telephone connection box, parked car, or fire hydrant. Watch out above too, because bulk trash must not be placed beneath power lines or low hanging tree limbs. 

According to the local city government services page for Houston, TX residents, bulk trash is only collected during even numbered months. Is it May or July? You have to wait.

In some cities, like Nashville, Boston, and McKinney, bulk trash pickup must be requested and scheduled. Alternatively, you will have to haul the junk out to a collection site yourself. 

Got a headache yet? Great, here’s the good news: Junk.com will come get your junk wherever you’ve stashed it. Just call to connect with a provider, get a quote for the junk removal, and then we’ll come get it in a time window that is convenient for you.

Reason 2: Fewer Restrictions on Junk Hauls

Remodeling? Roof debris? Or maybe just an old TV to put out? Don’t take that junk to the curb yet. These six major cities that Junk.com serves lay out their no-can-dos on their waste management pages.

• McKinney, TX: Will not take yard waste, pallets, or construction debris.

• Dallas, TX: Won’t take construction debris, electronics, or roofing material.

• Denver, CO: Won’t take electronic waste, construction materials, or unbundled branches.

• Nashville, TN: Won’t take mirrors or glass items, sheet rock, or drywall.

• Boston, MA: Will not take construction debris, plumbing fixtures, fences, water heaters, or fire debris.

• Houston, TX: Will not take items that contained refrigerant or construction debris from work performed by contractors. And don’t mix stuff up because if you do, they might refuse the entire haul. 

Your specific city might have differing guidelines, but you get the gist now. It’s possible your city will not pick up your junk.

Is there stuff that Junk.com won’t take? Yes, but mostly stuff that poses a safety hazard to remove like food waste, paint, and biohazards. Check out our page on what we take. 

Reason 3: Big Junk Hauls are Welcome

Need to clean out an entire room or property? Bulk trash pickup may not be the best call, because many cities put a limit on the amount or number of items they will take with bulk trash pickup.

Denver, CO residents using bulk trash pickup are limited to 5 large items per pickup window. Dallas, TX residents can request an oversized collection but only once per year. Nashville, TN residents with DIY construction junk must take it to a collection center, and they are limited to 1 cubic yard of waste. Houston, TX residents can only put out about four cubic yards of building material and it can’t contain roofing material, brick, plaster, or concrete. 

Junk.com is up for the big jobs! We’ll clear out your basement, tear down and cart off an entire shed, or haul off your construction debris from your renovation or remodeling job. Need an entire property cleaned out? Or empathetic and discreet hoarding cleanout? Junk.com has you covered. 

Reason 4: Same Day Junk Removal 

When you wait for the city’s bulk trash pickup, you are confined to their schedule. Nashville, TN residents can wind up waiting seven days before their bulk trash gets removed. Dallas, TX residents get their brush and bulky trash items picked up once a month. The city of Denver, CO has moved their large item pickup to every nine weeks as of January 2025.

This isn’t going to work for people who have a hard deadline on when they need the junk gone. Are you moving? Have a new appliance already on the way to replace the broken one? Need the space to work on your remodeling efforts as soon as possible? Junk.com can have a provider out to remove your junk today. When you can’t wait to get that junk out of your space, call up the junk haulers at Junk.com.

Reason 5: Ethical and Eco-Friendly Disposal

The junk you have picked up by the city will almost always go straight to the landfill. Your wooden furniture could take up to 13 years to decompose. Your old smelly mattress will take up to 120 years to decompose. Memory foam? That number shoots up to 1,000 years. Your old washer that might actually still work if you were bothered enough to try turning it on? Forget it, our descendants will dig it up in the year 3725 and put it in a museum. Many of our household waste items also release toxins into the environment as they decompose.

In answer, junk removal companies like Junk.com can sort through your junk and make sure items are sustainably and ethically disposed of. Items that are still usable like your old washer (It works. Don’t kid yourself just because it’s ugly.) can be given a second life when they are donated to charities that help people in need. Items that can be turned into new creations will be recycled and upcycled. The remaining items that are trash will be responsibly disposed of.

Junk Piling Up? Get it Hauled Away by Junk.com

Go to our junk removal booking tool, put in your zip code, and let Junk.com connect you with a team eager to haul off your bulky trash and junk. Pick a day, any day. Junk.com can get a provider out to your location as soon as the same day. We will call at least 15 minutes ahead of time to make sure you’re ready for junk removal. Once our team gets out on site, they’ll give you a free, no-obligation estimate. If you like our fair price, we’ll carefully remove your junk and trash from your home or place of business. 

Junk.com always aims to practice sustainable methods of junk removal including donation of functional goods, recycling and upcycling of usable materials, and responsible disposal of items that do not have a second life in them.

Ready to get that junk gone? Book Online with Junk.com and then sit back and relax while we haul the junk away.