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 Torrance: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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A Torrance address with City trash collection gets one free large item pickup a calendar year of up to twenty items, including furniture and mattresses, booked in advance.
Metal appliances are one of the two categories the City recycles instead of landfilling, so a refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer or stove goes out on the large item pickup, while a water heater is refused as a plumbing fixture.
Televisions, computers, cellphones and other electronic devices are household hazardous waste in Torrance, so they do not go in a cart and go instead to a county drop-off center, a paint and e-waste retailer programme, or a county collection event.
Construction and renovation material is refused on the large item pickup and in the carts, so a project load moves through a container from a licensed private hauler, with a permit when the container sits on City property.
The handoff matters
One free large item collection is available a calendar year per address, up to twenty items, and it has to be booked with the sanitation line at 855-354-5623. Materials cannot go out earlier than 12 hours before the scheduled pickup, small items must be tied or bagged, the pile goes where recycling is collected and at least five feet from the carts, and a cancellation has to be made at least a day ahead.
Large item pickup and illegal dumping page with the once a year free collection, the twenty item limit, the placement and timing rules, the prohibited item list and the mattress and carpet notesResidents page with the weekly service area, cart contents, placement rules, the five year rate table, additional containers, the discount programme and the holiday schedulePaint, cleaners, motor oil, auto products, batteries, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, mercury equipment, sharps, medicine, non-empty aerosol cans and electronic waste cannot go in any cart or on the large item pile. Take them to the Gaffey Street collection center at 1400 North Gaffey Street in San Pedro on weekends from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or to the EDCO center at 2755 California Ave in Signal Hill on the second and fourth Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., both free to county residents.
Household hazardous waste page with the hazardous material examples, the permanent drop-off centers and reuse center, the county event rules and the battery guidanceLos Angeles County household hazardous waste collection center page confirming the permanent centers are free to county residents and naming the Gaffey Street hoursUse 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 Torrance.
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.
One free pickup a calendar year per address, on call rather than on a fixed week, with up to twenty items collected. The City also sells additional collections, priced from its rate table by how many items are collected.Official guidance
Call 855-354-5623 Monday through Friday between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The pickup is scheduled on your regular refuse collection day, at least twenty items is the cap, small items must be tied or bagged, and the load goes where recycling is picked up and at least five feet from the carts.Official guidance
Construction debris such as wood, concrete, bricks, drywall, wall-to-wall carpeting, dirt, tree trunks and plumbing fixtures such as water heaters; auto parts such as batteries, doors, fenders, motors, gas tanks and tires; household hazardous waste such as paint, medicine, sharps, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, mercury equipment and electronic waste; and anything two people cannot safely handle, such as a spa, hot tub, piano or organ.Official guidance
Yes, and it is one of the items the City recycles rather than landfilling. Mattresses are accepted on the large item pickup and recycled through the Mattress Recycling Council, and the City also points out that California law requires a mattress retailer to take back the old mattress when a new one is delivered.Official guidance
Yes. The City says large item collections are landfilled except for electronics and metal appliances, which means a metal appliance such as a refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer or stove is collected and recycled through the free annual pickup. Add it to the pickup when you call 855-354-5623.Official guidance
A water heater is refused on the large item pickup, because the City lists plumbing fixtures such as water heaters with the prohibited construction debris. The City points to a metal recycler instead, and battery and metal scrap are also taken there.Official guidance
To a county household hazardous waste drop-off. The nearest are the Gaffey Street collection center at 1400 North Gaffey Street in San Pedro, open weekends from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. except holidays and rainy days, and the EDCO recycling and transfer center at 2755 California Ave in Signal Hill on the second and fourth Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both are free to Los Angeles County residents.Official guidance
Not in any cart. The City says batteries, especially the lithium-ion cells in phones, laptops, e-bikes, power tools and earbuds, should never go in the trash or recycling because they start fires in trucks and at recycling facilities. Rechargeable, lithium primary, button cell and alkaline batteries all go to a participating drop-off, and every type is also accepted at a county collection center or a county mobile event.Official guidance
The City's own page is inconsistent on this, because it says electronics and metal appliances are collected and recycled rather than landfilled while also listing electronic waste among the prohibited items on the same page. Ask the sanitation line at 855-354-5623 before adding a device to the pickup, and use a county drop-off in the meantime.Official guidance
Dumpster and roll-off containers have to come from a licensed private hauler, because the City does not rent them. If the container will sit on City property it also needs a Public Property Encroachment Permit, arranged with the Community Development Department at 310-618-5898.Official guidance
The City keeps a reference list of local transfer stations open to the public, including yards in Gardena, Long Beach, Compton, Wilmington, Downey, Signal Hill and Carson. The City marks that list as reference only and subject to change, tells residents to call ahead about pricing, hours and accepted materials, and notes that Torrance residents with proof of residency can receive discounted City rates there.Official guidance
The City's own Public Works Sanitation Division, which runs weekly trash, recycling and organics collection for about 29,500 single family homes, duplexes and select three and four unit properties. Customer service is 855-354-5623 Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and commercial and multi-family property service runs through private haulers instead.Official guidance
The monthly rate depends only on the size of the trash container, and the City publishes a five year schedule of increases through July 1, 2027. Recycling and organics containers carry no monthly charge, up to two extra recycling or organics carts are free apart from the delivery fee, and an additional refuse container carries its own published monthly rate.Official guidance
Yes. The low income senior and disabled rate requires a 64-gallon refuse cart, a resident who is 62 or older or permanently disabled, and a household income inside the programme limits. Applications go through the Finance Department utility billing line at 310-618-5830.Official guidance
The City publishes a reference list of local transfer stations open to the public, in Gardena, Long Beach, Compton, Wilmington, Downey, Signal Hill and Carson. The City marks the list as reference only and subject to change, asks residents to call ahead about prices, hours and accepted materials, and notes that Torrance residents can receive discounted City rates with proof of residency.Official guidance
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