Bags, boxes and the last things left to clear, gone from the curb. Choose what’s going, see your exact price and book by 2pm for same-day pickup. You don’t need to be home.
Two bags. One filled box. Count what goes, then book it together.
Finish clearing the space
The last few things still deserve a pickup.
You have decided what is going. Now give those bags and boxes a pickup day, with a price you can see before anyone arrives.
The move is nearly done.
Book the unwanted bags and boxes left after packing. Choose an available pickup day before you hand back the keys, and arrange to have them outside.
The clear-out can be finished.
You do not need a whole house of junk. Select the bags, boxes and larger items you actually have. Your combined price is shown online.
You want to know it is handled.
When the next collection does not fit your plans, choose a Dropcurb pickup day. Updates keep you informed, and completion photos show when the booked items are gone.
A few simple choices turn a mixed pile into a clear booking. No need to estimate how much of a truck it might fill.
Filled bags and boxes
Count each trash bag or filled household box. Books and media go by the box. Clothes, bedding and shoes go by the filled bag. Toys packed together have a Box of toys choice. Ask us about unusually heavy or oversized bags and boxes first.
Empty cardboard and containers
Empty cardboard is a different choice: choose single empty boxes or tied bundles of 10 flattened boxes. Compacted bales have their own weight-based choices and require loading-dock access. A Storage bin choice covers the empty bin itself; ask us to confirm the contents if they are going too.
Furniture and other larger items
Add the actual larger item alongside your bags and boxes, such as a sofa, chair or mattress. It has its own price and preparation. Keep construction materials and items needing special handling out of ordinary household bags.
Bulk junk removal prices in Carmichael
First item / additional item
Trash bag$59 / $10
Filled household box$59 / $15
Bag of clothes & bedding$59 / $10
Empty cardboard box$59 / $5
10 flattened cardboard boxes$79 / $20
Box of toys$89 / $29
Dumpster Bag$300 / $250
The highest first-item price applies once. Every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
You handle sorting and getting things out of the home or building. We load and haul away the items on your booking from an accessible outdoor spot.
Book by 2pm at the pickup address for same-day pickup, using the dates shown at checkout. Pickup is booked for a day, not an exact arrival time. Confirm any short building-access window with us before booking.
Your place. One easy pickup plan.
A house, a condo or an apartment. Choose an accessible outdoor spot that works for your property. You arrange the move outside; we take it from there.
Add the bags, boxes and separate larger items, then choose an available day. Have an unusual pile or uncertain contents? Send a photo before booking so we can help with the choices.
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Make the handoff easy.
Bag or box small household items as much as possible. Keep the booked items together, separate from anything staying. Follow your confirmation for when they need to be outside and accessible.
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Show us what goes.
Add photos and clear pickup-location notes on your order page. You do not need to be home when everything is outside and accessible. We send pickup updates and completion photos.
You’re in the loop. Until it’s gone.
Confirmation when you book. A heads-up before arrival. Photos when it’s done.
A mattress is named as acceptable bulky household material, inside the five cubic yard appointment allowance.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. One bulky waste pickup appointment every twelve months for five cubic yards of acceptable items is included in the standard residential curbside collection service for the unincorporated area. More than five cubic yards is charged at current rates and fifteen cubic yards is the maximum for one pickup.
When & how
Book the appointment with the county, then put the mattress out for the scheduled pickup day with the rest of the pile.
Get it ready
Keep the whole pile to five cubic yards, about a pile 8 by 4 by 4 feet, and keep anything accepted in the garbage, organics or recycling carts out of it.
Furniture is named as acceptable bulky household material on the same yearly appointment.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. Included in the one bulky waste appointment every twelve months for five cubic yards of acceptable items; extra volume and extra appointments are charged at current rates.
When & how
Book the appointment and put the furniture out on the collection day inside the five cubic yard allowance.
Get it ready
Keep everything that fits in the garbage, organics or recycling carts out of the pile, and keep lumber, pipes and trimmings inside four inches wide by five feet long.
Appliances are accepted as bulky household material when they are empty and their doors are removed or securely taped or tied closed.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. Included in the one bulky waste appointment every twelve months for five cubic yards of acceptable items; extra volume and extra appointments are charged at current rates.
When & how
Book the appointment and tell the county you have an appliance, because it is set to one side and may be collected by a different truck.
Get it ready
Empty the appliance completely with no trash or debris inside, and for child safety remove the doors or secure them with tape or ties before the item goes to the kerb. The programme describes collection rather than a recovery guarantee for the machine.
Electronic waste such as televisions, computer monitors and mobile phones is accepted with the bulky appointment when the smaller devices are boxed together.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. Included in the one bulky waste appointment every twelve months for five cubic yards of acceptable items, with electronic waste placed to one side of the pile; extra volume and extra appointments are charged at current rates.
When & how
Say when booking that you have electronic waste, then put it to one side of the bulky pile so the crew can collect it separately.
Get it ready
Box smaller devices together, keep the screens whole, and remember that products with embedded or built-in batteries are not accepted at the hazardous waste drop-off and have to go to an electronic waste programme such as Kiefer Landfill or the North Area Recovery Station. Remove loose batteries and tape their terminals before disposal.
Concrete, dirt, rocks, bricks, stumps, heavy objects and treated wood are refused on the bulky route and belong at a county facility instead.
City cost & eligibility
The North Area Recovery Station and Kiefer Landfill publish separate gate fee schedules that are not part of the retained pages, so confirm the current rate for the load before hauling.
When & how
Take the load to the North Area Recovery Station at 4450 Roseville Road or Kiefer Landfill at 12701 Kiefer Blvd. during their published hours, and cover and secure it for the trip.
Get it ready
Keep concrete, dirt, rocks, bricks, stumps, glass panes and treated wood out of the bulky pile so the rest of the appointment is not refused, and remove fluids and removable batteries from anything you take to a facility.
Exercise equipment is not named in the acceptable or refused lists, so the county has to confirm the machine before the appointment.
City cost & eligibility
No published rate covers an exercise machine and the item is not named. Confirm with the county at 916-875-5555 whether it can go in the five cubic yard allowance.
When & how
Call the county with the machine type and size before booking, then include it in the appointment only if it is accepted.
Get it ready
Fold or tie down the deck and handles, remove any console or battery pack so it can be handled separately, and keep the item inside the five cubic yard pile.
The bulky route is one appointment every twelve months for five cubic yards, included in the standard residential curbside collection service.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. One bulky waste pickup appointment for five cubic yards of acceptable items every twelve months is included in the standard residential curbside collection service for the unincorporated area, and the twelve month period starts when the service is used. More than five cubic yards is charged at current rates, fifteen cubic yards is the maximum for one pickup, and further appointments are charged.
When & how
Book the appointment with the county, then put the pile out on the scheduled day. Report a missed cart service set out by 6 a.m. to 3-1-1, or 916-875-4311 from outside the unincorporated county.
Get it ready
Keep the pile to five cubic yards, put appliances, electronic waste, fluorescent tubes, trimmings and up to four tires to one side and declare them when booking, and keep business waste, hazardous waste, liquids, glass panes, hot ashes and cart material out of the pile.
Set appliances, electronics, tubes, trimmings and tires to one side
Appliances, electronic waste, fluorescent tubes, lumber and tree trimmings and up to four tires go to one side of the bulky material and may be collected by a different truck, so say when booking that you have them. Tubes are limited to four feet with no ballasts, trimmings to four inches wide and five feet long with no treated wood, and tires to four with rims allowed.
Keep hazardous waste and cart material out of the pile
Batteries, chemicals, oil, paint, propane tanks and fluorescent ballasts are refused on the bulky route and go to a household hazardous waste drop-off instead, where the county takes up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds per month at no fee. Anything that belongs in the garbage, organics or recycling cart stays out of the pile, along with liquids, glass panes, hot ashes and business waste.
Use a permitted, accessible outdoor spot. Arrange the move out of your home, keep shared access clear and follow your confirmation’s readiness instructions. Check with your building about access or staging limits before booking.
Sacramento County Department of Waste Management and Recycling
Book the yearly bulky waste appointment
Unincorporated-area addresses with furniture, mattresses, appliances, electronic waste, trimmings, up to four tires or other acceptable bulky material inside five cubic yards.
Cost & conditions
No charge. One appointment for five cubic yards every twelve months is included in the standard residential curbside collection service for the unincorporated area, and the twelve month period starts when the service is used. Extra volume costs more, fifteen cubic yards is the maximum for one pickup, and further appointments are charged.
Arrange it
Book the appointment with the county at 916-875-5555 or through the county app, declare any appliances, electronic waste, tubes, trimmings or tires, then put the pile out for the scheduled day.
Business waste, concrete, dirt, rocks, bricks, stumps, heavy objects, glass panes and mirrors, hot ashes, hazardous waste, liquids, cart material and treated wood are refused. Multifamily apartment complexes and mobile home parks are served by commercial franchised haulers rather than this curbside programme.
Sacramento County Department of Waste Management and Recycling
Self-haul to the North Area Recovery Station or Kiefer Landfill
A household with construction debris, treated wood, dirt, rock or a load too large for the bulky appointment.
Cost & conditions
Gate fees are published on separate county schedules that were not retained, so confirm the current rate for the material before loading.
Arrange it
Use the North Area Recovery Station at 4450 Roseville Road in North Highlands, open Monday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., or Kiefer Landfill at 12701 Kiefer Blvd. in Sloughhouse, open Monday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and weekends 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Arrive at least 15 minutes before closing, cover and secure the load because that is the law, remove fluids and removable batteries first, and take products with built-in batteries to an electronic waste programme only. Kiefer may close early when the daily vehicle limit is reached.
Carmichael's bulky route is the county's yearly appointment: one pickup every twelve months for five cubic yards of acceptable material, with furniture, mattresses and cut-down spas named, and with appliances, electronic waste, fluorescent tubes, trimmings and up to four tires set to one side and declared when booking. Everything the appointment refuses has a county facility behind it: the North Area Recovery Station at 4450 Roseville Road and Kiefer Landfill at 12701 Kiefer Blvd. both take household waste, some recyclables, hard-to-handle items and construction debris, they charge gate fees on schedules published separately, they ask that loads be covered and secured because that is the law, and they require fluids and removable batteries to come out first. Hazardous material goes to the drop-off facility on the Roseville Road site, which takes up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds a month at no fee, while products with built-in batteries have to go to an electronic waste programme instead. Bulky waste pickup by appointmentNorth Area Recovery Station hours and accepted materialKiefer Landfill hours and accepted materialHousehold hazardous waste drop-off at the North Area Recovery Station
County transfer station in North Highlands
North Area Recovery Station
4450 Roseville Road, North Highlands, CA 95660
Household waste from the public, businesses and private haulers, some recyclable material, some hard-to-handle items and construction debris, with a household hazardous waste facility on the same site.
Loads must be covered and secured because that is the law, fluids and removable batteries must come out first, and products with built-in batteries are not accepted at the hazardous waste facility but go to an electronic waste programme. Payment is by cash, credit card or cheque, and customers do not have to be county residents.
Monday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., arriving at least 15 minutes before closing, closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. The hazardous waste facility on site keeps different days and hours.
Gate fees are published on a separate county fee schedule that was not retained, so confirm the rate for the load before hauling.
Household waste, recyclable material and hard-to-handle waste from the public, businesses and private haulers, with an ABOP and special waste facility on site.
Loads must be covered or secured, fluids and removable batteries must be removed first and dropped at a household hazardous waste facility, and items with built-in batteries must go to an electronic waste programme only. The facility may close early when the daily vehicle limit is reached.
Monday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., arriving at least 15 minutes before closing. The on-site ABOP and special waste facility keeps different hours.
Gate fees are published on a separate county fee schedule that was not retained, so confirm the rate for the load before hauling.
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Before you book
A few things worth knowing.
Bulk junk removal, from choosing your item to pickup day in Carmichael.
How much does bulk junk removal cost in Carmichael?+
A trash bag is $59 as the first item and $10 additional. A filled household box is $59 as the first item. Add your actual items and quantities to see the combined price before booking. Loading, transportation and disposal are included; any applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
Can you pick up bags of junk today?+
Book by 2pm in the pickup address’s local time for same-day pickup. Available dates appear at checkout. Have the booked bags and boxes outside and accessible according to your confirmation. You receive pickup updates and completion photos; the booking is for a day rather than an exact arrival time.
Do I count every object inside a bag or box?+
No. Count the filled bags or boxes using the matching choice. Books and media go in Filled household box; clothes, bedding and shoes go in Bag of clothes & bedding; packed toys have a Box of toys choice. Empty cardboard is separate, with individual empty boxes and bundles of 10 flattened boxes. Heavy, oversized or unusual contents need a photo review before booking.
Can you pick up a small loose pile of household junk?+
Yes. Estimate how many trash bags the small household pile would fill, and bag or box as much as possible. Select furniture and other larger items separately. There is no extra charge just because the pile is loose. Send a photo first if the count or contents are unclear. A household Dumpster Bag choice does not accept construction debris.
Can I book bags, boxes and furniture together?+
Yes. Select the bags and boxes, then add each larger item using its own catalog choice. The booking shows one combined price for the selected items. Move everything to an accessible outdoor spot before pickup; indoor carrying and sorting are not included. Keep anything you want to retain apart from the booked items and identify what goes in your photos and notes.
How much bulky waste can a Carmichael household put out?+
Five cubic yards per appointment, described as a pile 8 by 4 by 4 feet, about a pickup truck bed loaded to the top of the cab, with one appointment included every twelve months. Anything over five cubic yards is charged at current rates and fifteen cubic yards is the maximum for one pickup.Official guidance
Do special items go in the same pile as furniture?+
Appliances, electronic waste, fluorescent tubes, lumber and tree trimmings and tires go to one side of the bulky material and may be collected by a different truck, so say when booking that you have them.Official guidance
How must an appliance be prepared for the Carmichael bulky pickup?+
The county asks that the appliance be empty with no trash or debris inside, that the doors be removed, or securely taped or tied closed, for child safety, and that the resident say when booking that an appliance is going out.Official guidance
Can a television go in the Carmichael bulky pile?+
Yes. Electronic waste including televisions, computer monitors and mobile phones is accepted with the bulky appointment, placed to one side of the pile and declared when booking, with smaller devices boxed together.Official guidance
Will the county take concrete or treated wood in the bulky pile?+
No. Concrete, dirt, rocks, bricks, tree stumps and heavy objects such as auto bodies or engines are not accepted, and treated wood waste such as fence posts, railroad ties, guardrails, pilings and decking is refused as well. Take those loads to the North Area Recovery Station or Kiefer Landfill.Official guidance
Is a treadmill accepted in the Carmichael bulky pickup?+
Exercise equipment is not named among the acceptable items, which list furniture, mattresses and cut-down spas, and it is not on the refused list either. Call the county at 916-875-5555 before you book it in.Official guidance
How often can a Carmichael household book the bulky pickup?+
One appointment every twelve months is included, and the twelve month period starts when the service is used rather than with the calendar year. Further appointments in the same year can be scheduled and are charged at current rates.Official guidance
Who collects waste in Carmichael?+
Carmichael is unincorporated, so Sacramento County's waste division runs the programme: weekly garbage, biweekly recycling, weekly organics, weekly curbside used oil and filters, and one bulky waste appointment every twelve months. Multifamily apartment complexes and mobile home parks are served by commercial franchised haulers instead, and the county answers at 916-875-5555.Official guidance
How much household hazardous waste can I drop off at once?+
Up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds per month at no fee at the North Area Recovery Station hazardous waste facility, 4450 Roseville Road in North Highlands, open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fluorescent tubes are limited to twelve a month and barbecue propane tanks to two.Official guidance
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Choose your bags, boxes and larger items. See the price and book a day that works.