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.
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The local disposal guide
Bulk junk removal in Ankeny: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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Large items and extra trash are arranged with the household hauler, and the city also runs one free cleanup day a year for large unwanted items.
Furniture is a large item that the household hauler collects by arrangement, and it is also eligible material on the city spring cleanup day.
A mattress goes out as a large item with the hauler, or can be self hauled to either authority landfill where each mattress and each box spring counts as one item.
Appliances need special handling rather than an ordinary extra item pickup, and the authority also recycles them at the landfill with the doors removed from refrigerators and freezers.
Electronics go to the authority's hazardous waste drop-off, which charges by the pound for electronics and by screen size for televisions, and the landfill takes electronics by the ton but refuses cathode ray tube material.
Construction and demolition material is refused in the garbage cart, and the route is a self haul to the landfill at its published rate or a private hauler.
Exercise machines are not named on any published list, so the hauler is asked before the machine goes to the curb.
The handoff matters
Ankeny Sanitation, Aspen Waste Systems, Garbage Guys, Waste Connections of Iowa and Waste Management of Iowa all collect residential garbage in the city, and the city sends residents to the company they use for rates, pickup days and times, yard waste fees, large item and extra trash procedures, missed collections and cart changes. The city itself publishes no collection rate.
City trash and recycling page with the subscription collection model, the five haulers and phone numbers, the list of questions each company answers, the yard waste definition with the city tree and leaf events, and the Curb It! recycling cart detailsSpring cleanup day lets residents inside the corporate limits dispose of large unwanted items free of charge at the Ankeny Sanitation site on SE Delaware Avenue, with proof of residency and no trucks larger than a pickup. Tires come off the rim and are limited to 5 per household. Tree and branch recycling runs three times a year at the City Maintenance Facility on SE Lorenz Drive, and leaf collection days run in October and November.
City recycling events page with the spring cleanup day location, the residency proof and vehicle restriction, the tire limit and tire exclusions, the full not accepted list, and the three times a year tree branch recycling events with their diameter limitsThe Metro Hazardous Waste Drop-Off at 1105 Prairie Drive SW in Bondurant takes household chemicals during its posted weekday and Saturday hours and is where containers can be poured off. The Grimes transfer station takes the same material by appointment only, keeps the containers, and does not accept electronics, appliances or tires. Ankeny residents can also use the houseside collection service on an as needed basis for a fee.
Metro Hazardous Waste Drop-Off location page with the Bondurant address, phone number and posted weekday and Saturday hours alongside the compost, recycling, redemption and Swap Shop scheduleMetro Waste Authority residential hazardous waste rates and accepted items with the 75 pound free allowance and overage charge, the free categories, and the published fees for small appliances, computer waste, electronics, televisions, fire extinguishers, latex paint, paper shredding, propane bottles, sharps and tires, plus the Grimes exclusionsCity hazardous waste page with the Metro Hazardous Waste Drop-Off address, the Metro Northwest Transfer Station appointment route at Grimes, the note that Grimes refuses electronic waste, appliances and tires, and the houseside collection optionThe landfill at 12181 NE University Ave. in Mitchellville is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. between April 1 and October 31 or from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. between November 1 and March 31. Small vehicles pay a flat rate by vehicle and larger vehicles pay by the ton with a minimum, and a load mixing material types is charged at the highest applicable rate.
Metro Park East Landfill location page with the Mitchellville address, phone number, weekday hours and the seasonal Saturday hoursMetro Park East rates and payments page with the small vehicle flat rates, the per ton rates with their minimum for garbage, yard waste and construction and demolition material, the appliance recycling rate and door condition, the television and monitor rates, the tire rates and the mixed load ruleUse 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 Ankeny.
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.
Contact the household's private hauler, because the city lists large items, extra trash and their fees among the things each company handles for its own customers. The city spring cleanup day is the free alternative once a year, for residents inside the city limits.Official guidance
Anything that will not fit in the cart with the lid closed, such as a couch, a mattress, a large appliance or a pile of bagged trash. In communities that use the authority's orange sticker, extra bags and large items are stickered for collection, and an appliance takes its stickers as well as a scheduled pickup, which the authority books on 515.244.0021.Official guidance
Through the household hauler, which sets its own price and schedule for large items. Ankeny Sanitation, Aspen Waste Systems, Garbage Guys, Waste Connections of Iowa and Waste Management of Iowa all serve the city, so call the company the address already uses.Official guidance
The city describes the spring cleanup day as free disposal of large unwanted items for residents inside the corporate limits at the Ankeny Sanitation site on SE Delaware Avenue. The published refusal list covers chemicals, appliances, electronics, paint and yard debris, and furniture is not on it. Tires are the exception on the accepted side, because the event takes tires off the rim, up to five per household, into a separate recycling dumpster provided by Metro Waste Authority.Official guidance
Ask the household hauler to take it as a large item, or self haul it to Metro Park East Landfill in Mitchellville, where mattresses and box springs are accepted during posted hours. The city spring cleanup day is the free once a year alternative.Official guidance
Yes on the authority side: each mattress and each box spring counts as one item when a household brings bedding to a landfill. Ask the hauler the same question when a curbside pickup is arranged, because a set may be priced as two pieces.Official guidance
The authority notes that an appliance needs special handling and a scheduled collection, so the hauler is called ahead rather than the unit being set out with the trash. The alternative is a self haul to Metro Park East Landfill, which recycles appliances at its published residential rate.Official guidance
Empty it, and remove the doors before taking it to the landfill for appliance recycling, which the rates page requires for refrigerators and freezers. For a curbside unit, ask the hauler whether the refrigerant has to be recovered and tagged, because no city or authority page publishes that step for a home pickup.Official guidance
To the Metro Hazardous Waste Drop-Off at 1105 Prairie Drive SW in Bondurant, which accepts computers, electronics and televisions and publishes its hours. The Grimes transfer station takes hazardous waste by appointment but not electronics or televisions, and the landfill refuses cathode ray tube material.Official guidance
Computer waste and electronics are charged by the pound, and a television is charged per set by screen size, with the smaller size costing less than the larger one. The same program takes batteries, light bulbs and oil based paint at no charge within its weight allowance.Official guidance
No. The authority lists construction and demolition material as not allowed in the garbage cart, together with rubble, concrete, wood, metal, rechargeable batteries, household cleaners and lawn and garden chemicals.Official guidance
To Metro Park East Landfill, which publishes a per ton construction and demolition rate with a minimum charge, or to a private hauler or container. Loads that mix material types are charged at the highest applicable rate, so keeping concrete, wood and metal separate can change the cost.Official guidance
The city's own list of what haulers handle names furniture and appliances rather than exercise machines, and the authority's sticker chart names couches, mattresses and appliances but not a treadmill or home gym. Call the hauler and describe the machine before it is set out.Official guidance
Take off the loose weights and console, fold or break the frame down if it comes apart, and keep the parts together in one spot. Confirm with the hauler first whether the machine will be collected as a large item, and hold it for the spring cleanup day if it will not.Official guidance
A private hauler the household chooses, because Ankeny runs subscription collection rather than a city service. The city lists Ankeny Sanitation, Aspen Waste Systems, Garbage Guys, Waste Connections of Iowa and Waste Management of Iowa, and each company sets its own rate and schedule.Official guidance
Once a year in the spring, residents inside the corporate limits can dispose of large unwanted items free of charge at the Ankeny Sanitation headquarters on SE Delaware Avenue, with proof of residency and no trucks larger than a pickup. A published refusal list covers chemicals, appliances, electronics, paint, propane tanks, tires in quantity, stumps and yard debris.Official guidance
The Metro Hazardous Waste Drop-Off at 1105 Prairie Drive SW in Bondurant is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, closed on major holidays. The Grimes transfer station takes the same material by appointment only.Official guidance
On the authority side each mattress and each box spring counts as one item when it is brought to a landfill. Ask the hauler the same question when a curbside pickup is booked, because a set may be priced as two separate large items.Official guidance
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