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.
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You have decided what is going. Now give those bags and boxes a pickup day, with a price you can see before anyone arrives.
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.
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.
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 clear count. An exact price.
A few simple choices turn a mixed pile into a clear booking. No need to estimate how much of a truck it might fill.
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 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.
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.
First item / additional item
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Confirmation when you book. A heads-up before arrival. Photos when it’s done.
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The local disposal guide
Bulk junk removal in Laguna Niguel: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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Anything that cannot fit in the automated carts counts as a bulky item in Laguna Niguel, and each residential customer is entitled to two free bulky item pickups a calendar year. Further pickups may be arranged at a nominal charge.
The city defines a bulky item as anything that cannot fit in the automated carts, so furniture rides one of the two free bulky pickups a year rather than sitting at the curb.
A mattress will not fit in an automated cart, so it falls under the city's bulky item definition and leaves on one of the two free bulky pickups a year.
Appliances fall under the same bulky item definition, because they will not fit in an automated cart, and they leave on one of the two free pickups a year.
Electronic waste is anything with a circuit board or a battery, including universal waste, and it may not go in the automated carts. Residents arrange a curbside pickup with the franchise hauler.
Exercise equipment falls under the city's bulky item definition because it will not fit in a cart, but the pages name no exercise category, so the hauler confirms the machine before it goes out.
The handoff matters
Laguna Niguel carts go to the curb no later than 6:30 a.m. on collection day and come back within 12 hours after service, with the handles and wheels facing the home. Leave carts side by side about a foot apart and at least three feet from vehicles, fire hydrants and trees, keep the lids closed, and remember that nothing outside a cart is collected unless a bulky pickup has been arranged.
City trash collection and recycling page naming CR&R as the exclusive franchise hauler and covering the encroachment permit rules, the August 2026 rate change and senior discount, cart placement, holidays, green waste, Christmas trees, the two free bulky pickups, hazardous waste and electronic wasteEach residential customer gets two free bulky item pickups a calendar year for anything that will not fit in the automated carts, and further pickups can be arranged at a nominal charge. A new resident who has the hauler collect paper, cardboard and packing material gets that service free, but it counts as both of the free pickups, so the rest of the year has none left.
City trash collection and recycling page naming CR&R as the exclusive franchise hauler and covering the encroachment permit rules, the August 2026 rate change and senior discount, cart placement, holidays, green waste, Christmas trees, the two free bulky pickups, hazardous waste and electronic wasteElectronic waste, meaning anything with a circuit board or a battery, may not go in the trash, recycling or green cart, and neither may household hazardous waste. Electronic waste is collected by arrangement with CR&R at (877) 728-0446, while hazardous waste goes to a certified collection centre, with the nearest named at the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan Capistrano. Sharps follow state law and go to a centre in an approved container, with free mail-back containers available.
City trash collection and recycling page naming CR&R as the exclusive franchise hauler and covering the encroachment permit rules, the August 2026 rate change and senior discount, cart placement, holidays, green waste, Christmas trees, the two free bulky pickups, hazardous waste and electronic wasteCity special wastes page covering the sharps prohibition, the four Orange County collection centres with addresses, the mail-back programme, household battery drop-off points and the free car battery routeUse 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.
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Before you book
Bulk junk removal, from choosing your item to pickup day in Laguna Niguel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two free pickups a calendar year for each residential customer, for items that will not fit in the automated carts, scheduled with CR&R at (877) 728-0446. Further pickups can be arranged at a nominal charge, and a new resident's move-in collection of paper, cardboard and packing material counts as both free pickups.Official guidance
Yes, on a scheduled bulky pickup. The city treats anything that will not fit in the automated carts as a bulky item, and each residential customer gets two free pickups a calendar year, scheduled with CR&R at (877) 728-0446.Official guidance
Book a bulky item pickup with CR&R at (877) 728-0446, because a mattress will not fit in an automated cart and the city treats such items as bulky. Each residential customer has two free pickups a calendar year, and further pickups can be arranged at a nominal charge.Official guidance
Yes. An appliance will not fit in the automated carts, so the city treats it as a bulky item, and each residential customer gets two free bulky pickups a calendar year. Schedule with CR&R at (877) 728-0446 and confirm refrigerant handling when you book.Official guidance
Electronic waste is anything with a circuit board or a battery, and the city says it is illegal to put it in the automated carts. Call CR&R at (877) 728-0446 to arrange a curbside pickup, and note that the city publishes no fee for that pickup.Official guidance
A machine that will not fit in a cart falls under the city's bulky item definition, but the pages do not name exercise equipment, so call CR&R at (877) 728-0446 with the machine type and weight and confirm before booking one of the two free pickups.Official guidance
The first two bulky item pickups each calendar year are free for a residential customer, and further pickups are arranged at a nominal charge the hauler quotes. Hazardous waste questions go to the county at (714) 834-4000, and the residential cart rate published by the city is separate from these services. Dropcurb prices a pickup separately and shows the total at checkout.Official guidance
CR&R Environmental Services, the city's exclusive franchise hauler, answers at (877) 728-0446 for collection scheduling, bulky pickups, electronic waste and household hazardous waste pickups. City questions go to the Assistant to the City Manager at (949) 362-4384, and Orange County Waste and Recycling answers hazardous waste questions at (714) 834-4000.Official guidance
If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, collection runs on the normal day. If it falls during the working week, collection for the remainder of that week is delayed by one day. The non-collection days are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.Official guidance
CR&R collects Christmas trees over a two-week period after the holiday season. Take off the ornaments, tinsel, lights and stand, put the tree in the green waste cart or beside the carts, do not bag it in plastic, and cut trees six feet or taller in half. Palm fronds are not recyclable and belong in the trash cart.Official guidance
Household batteries are collected from residents in the Sea Country Senior and Community Center lobby and on the second floor of City Hall in the public works lobby. Car batteries count as household hazardous waste and may be disposed of free at the collection facility in San Juan Capistrano or through a CR&R household hazardous waste curbside pickup.Official guidance
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