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.
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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.
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The local disposal guide
Bulk junk removal in San Buenaventura: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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Large household items are collected on a scheduled bulky item pickup instead of the curb, and the city's page describes four bulky items across two pickups a year at no charge while the hauler's page describes four bulky item pickups in a 12-month period.
Tires are named in the city's bulky item definition, and the transfer station also takes them from self haulers at a published per tire charge.
A mattress goes out on a bulky item pickup, and one mattress and box spring set a year can be recycled free at Gold Coast Recycling.
Furniture is a named bulky item, so a couch or a table leaves the property on a scheduled bulky item pickup, and the city points usable pieces at local second hand stores first.
Large household appliances and water heaters are named bulky items, and a unit with refrigerant that is self hauled to the transfer station carries the station's Freon extraction charge on top of the disposal charge.
Electronic waste cannot go in the trash or the recycling cart, and disposal is free for a City of Ventura resident with a Ventura address at Gold Coast Recycling.
Project debris does not go on a bulky item pickup. The city's construction and demolition program requires a diversion plan and sends the material through a franchised roll off container or a documented self haul facility.
The handoff matters
Furniture, mattresses and appliances are collected on a scheduled bulky item pickup, and the city asks residents not to set any of it out on the curb with the trash bins. Keep the items on the property until the hauler gives you a pickup date, then set them out as directed.
Bulky item collection page with the annual pickup allowance, the bulky item definition, the mattress, furniture and tire guidance and the illegal dumping hotlineFranchise hauler city page with the weekly collection days, the cart set out standards, the food waste bagging rule, the bulky item language, the household hazardous waste refusal list and the oil and battery drop off locationsUse 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 San Buenaventura.
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.
Call E.J. Harrison and Sons at 805-647-1414 or 800-41-TRASH, or submit the request form on the hauler's website. Bulky items are not collected on the regular trash route, so the pickup has to be arranged first, and the city asks residents to confirm the allowance that applies when they book.Official guidance
The city defines bulky items as discarded large household appliances, furniture, tires, carpets, mattresses and similar large items that need special handling because of their size. The hauler's page lists broken or old furniture, water heaters, mattresses, old bathroom and kitchen fixtures and household appliances among the common bulky items it collects.Official guidance
No. The city states that old furniture and appliances cannot be set out on the curb with the trash bins, and that a bulky item pickup has to be scheduled instead. Setting the piece out early also risks a report to the city's Safe and Clean Hotline at 805-677-3900.Official guidance
Yes. Tires are named in the city's definition of a bulky item, so they can go out on a bulky item pickup, and the shop that sold you the new tires will often take the old ones back. Gold Coast Recycling also accepts tires for recycling at a fee charged by size.Official guidance
No. The hauler's page lists tires among the items that are not accepted at the monthly household hazardous waste events, along with fireworks, smoke detectors, radioactive and medical waste, explosive materials, compressed gas cylinders and trash.Official guidance
Gold Coast Recycling and Transfer Station on Colt Street allows one mattress and box spring set per year to be recycled at no charge for a city resident. Otherwise book a bulky item pickup through E.J. Harrison, and ask the retailer delivering a new mattress whether it will take the old one with it.Official guidance
No. The city states that a mattress cannot be set out on the curb with the trash bins and that a bulky item pickup has to be scheduled. A mattress that is left out without an appointment falls under the city's illegal dumping guidance, which runs through the Safe and Clean Hotline at 805-677-3900.Official guidance
Yes, on a scheduled bulky item pickup. Furniture is named in the city's definition of a bulky item, so a couch, sofa or table is collected from the address on an appointment rather than on the regular trash day.Official guidance
Yes. The city lists Goodwill, the Coalition Thrift Store, the ARC Foundation and Thrift Store, the Boys and Girls Club Thrift Store and the SPARC Second Chance Store as places that take gently used furniture, and it frames donation as the first option before a bulky item pickup.Official guidance
Yes. Large household appliances are named in the city's bulky item definition and household appliances appear on the hauler's common bulky item list, so a refrigerator, washer, dryer or stove is collected on a scheduled pickup rather than on the trash route.Official guidance
It depends on the route. An appliance collected on a bulky item pickup carries no charge, while a sealed unit such as a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner hauled to Gold Coast Recycling is charged the station's Freon extraction charge per unit plus the disposal charge at the scale house.Official guidance
No. The city groups electronic waste with household hazardous waste as material that cannot be placed in the trash or the recycling cart, and it points residents at the free electronic waste drop off at Gold Coast Recycling instead.Official guidance
Gold Coast Recycling and Transfer Station at 5275 Colt St. takes electronic waste at no charge from a City of Ventura resident with a Ventura address, and the city asks residents to bring identification. Computers, monitors, televisions, printers, cell phones, VCRs, DVD players, consoles and small kitchen appliances are on the accepted list.Official guidance
Project debris does not go on a bulky item pickup. Either order a roll off container from the city's franchise hauler, which recycles construction and demolition debris and quotes special recycle rates on request, or self haul it to a facility that can document the diversion. Roll offs come in 10, 25 and 40 yard sizes and every roll off has a 10 ton maximum weight limit.Official guidance
Covered projects do. The city requires a Form 1 waste management plan before the building permit is issued and a Form 2 final report before final inspection, with the recycling receipts and weight tags that back up the diversion. New residential, commercial and mixed use construction has to divert at least 65 percent of its construction and demolition waste from landfill under CALGreen.Official guidance
Only in a narrow case. City ordinance allows self hauling when a licensed contractor uses its own employees and equipment as an incidental part of the total service, and that contractor has to direct haul segregated material to a local facility that can show the 65 percent diversion. A project without its own bins, trucks and crew is required to use the franchise hauler.Official guidance
E.J. Harrison and Sons is the city's exclusive franchise hauler and handles the weekly curbside collection of trash, recycling and yard waste, with residential pricing, billing and cart changes at 805-647-1414 or 800-41-TRASH. The city's Environmental Sustainability division runs the bulky item and household hazardous waste programs and can be reached at 805-652-4525.Official guidance
The city's bulky item program is written for residential customers and the hauler's page addresses residential customers without saying how a multi family property is treated. If you live in an apartment or a shared building, call 805-647-1414 to confirm what the property is eligible for before setting anything out.Official guidance
It can. Pickup may be delayed by one day in a holiday week, and the hauler publishes a holiday schedule lookup on its Ventura page. Carts still go out by 7 a.m. on whichever day the route runs.Official guidance
The events run on the third Saturday of each month except December, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Gold Coast Recycling on Colt Street. An appointment is required through 805-652-4525, the events are for City of Ventura residents only, and each visit is limited to 15 gallons or 125 pounds of material. Fireworks, smoke detectors, radioactive and medical waste, explosive material, compressed gas cylinders, tires and trash are refused.Official guidance
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