Peoria, Illinois

Bulk junk removal
in Peoria.

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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What is ready to go?

First item / additional item

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Book by 2pm for same-day pickup.

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Two separate tied household bags and one filled box grouped outside an open doorway, with the entrance kept clear.
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.

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A clear count. An exact price.

Count the bags and boxes, not everything inside.

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 Peoria

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.

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Ready for pickup

Bring the booked items together outside.

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.

Text us about your setup
  1. Count it before you book.

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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The local disposal guide

What are your
local options?

Bulk junk removal in Peoria: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.

Reviewed · Sources below

Bulky items and household junk

Accepted with preparation

Peoria collects bulky waste on the weekly route without an item limit or a separate fee, because the cost sits inside the annual bill. Furniture, mattresses, building materials such as wood and sheetrock, carpet and underpadding are the published typical items, and the city asks residents to call GFL at 309-688-0760 so the truck can be staffed for the load.

City cost & eligibility
No charge. Included in the annual bill for a city of Peoria resident, with no item limit published and no separate bulky charge. The city states that the pickup happens whether or not residents call GFL in advance.
When & how
Set the material out as early as 3 p.m. the day before the weekly collection and no later than 6 a.m. on the collection day, and call GFL at 309-688-0760 if you want the load flagged.
Get it ready
Put anything small enough for the cart inside it with the lid closed, bag a larger item and set the tied bag at least three feet from the carts and other obstacles, and set an item too large for a bag at least three feet clear as well. Keep electronics, tires, chemicals, concrete, rock, dirt and fluorescent tubes out of the pile.
City bulky waste page with the unlimited curbside programme, the annual bill fee, the GFL contact, the three set-out branches and the refusal list

The handoff matters

Right item.
Right place.

Three set-out branches and one time window

Peoria asks residents to put bulky material out as early as 3 p.m. the day before the weekly collection and no later than 6 a.m. on the collection day. An item small enough to fit goes in the trash cart with the lid closed; anything bigger is bagged and the tied bag is set at least three feet from the carts and other obstacles; and an item too large for a bag is set at least three feet clear as well, away from cars, mailboxes and anything else in the way. Calling GFL at 309-688-0760 flags the load so the truck can be staffed for it, and the city states the pickup happens whether or not that call is made.

City bulky waste page with the unlimited curbside programme, the annual bill fee, the GFL contact, the three set-out branches and the refusal list

Six categories that do not ride the bulky truck

The city's bulky page refuses electronics such as computers, televisions and printers, tires, hazardous materials and chemicals, concrete, rock and dirt, and fluorescent tubes, and it sends readers to the other disposal page for each. In practice that means electronic waste is barred from Illinois landfills and goes to an Illinois EPA recommendation instead, chemicals and bulbs stay out of every curbside stream, and tires are handled by one of three local businesses the city names because Peoria runs no tire programme.

City bulky waste page with the unlimited curbside programme, the annual bill fee, the GFL contact, the three set-out branches and the refusal listCity other disposal page with the Illinois landfill ban on electronic waste, the sharps container rule and county contact, the absence of a city tire programme with three local tire businesses, the dead animal rules and the nuisance abatement number

Yard waste has its own season and container rules

Yard waste collection runs from April 6 to December 11 in 2026 and is picked up the same day as trash. Containers are plastic or metal carts of 40 to 45 gallons with two handles and a tight fitting lid, or wheeled carts of 65 or 95 gallons, labelled with a Yard Waste Only sticker available at City Hall, Public Works or any GFL location, and compostable paper bags are accepted while compostable plastic bags are not. Lids close, a filled bag may not exceed 30 pounds, containers sit three feet from the trash and recycling carts, and bundles are tied with nonmetallic cord at no more than five feet and 50 pounds. The container moves off the curb within 24 hours and is stored in a garage or alongside the house rather than in front of or behind the home.

City yard waste page with the 2026 season dates, the container and bundle specifications, the set-out and return windows, the holiday delay list and the acceptable material

Six holidays push the whole week back a day

Collection is delayed by one day when the pickup falls on or after New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, so a household on a weekly schedule shifts with the holiday and the bulky and yard waste routes follow the same shift.

City yard waste page with the 2026 season dates, the container and bundle specifications, the set-out and return windows, the holiday delay list and the acceptable materialCity other disposal page with the Illinois landfill ban on electronic waste, the sharps container rule and county contact, the absence of a city tire programme with three local tire businesses, the dead animal rules and the nuisance abatement number

For your Dropcurb pickup

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.

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Choose what fits

A few ways
to get it gone.

The right option depends on what you have, where it is and when you need the space back.

Outdoor pickup

Dropcurb

See your price, choose an available day and follow your pickup updates.

Price
Upfront item pricing. Loading, transportation and disposal included; applicable sales tax shown before payment.
Your part
Bring the selected items to an accessible outdoor spot. We load and haul them away.
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City of Peoria Public Works with GFL Environmental

Set bulky waste out with the weekly collection

A city household with furniture, a mattress, building materials, carpet or other large household material.

Cost & conditions
No charge. Included in the annual bill for a city of Peoria resident, with the bulky programme published as unlimited and no separate charge. Electronics, tires, chemicals, concrete, rock, dirt and fluorescent tubes are refused.
Arrange it
Set the material out between 3 p.m. the day before and 6 a.m. on the collection day, three feet clear of carts and obstacles, and call GFL at 309-688-0760 to flag the load.

The refusal list is firm, appliances and exercise equipment need confirming first, and nothing may be set out earlier than 3 p.m. the day before the pickup.

Open the Peoria bulky waste page

City of Peoria Public Works with GFL Environmental

Flag the load with GFL

A household setting out a large or awkward pile who wants the truck staffed for it.

Cost & conditions
No charge. The call is free and the city states that the bulky pickup happens whether or not residents notify GFL, so the call is a courtesy step rather than a requirement.
Arrange it
Call GFL at 309-688-0760 to say what is going out, and use the same number for dead animal reports on city right of ways during business hours.

Calling does not make a refused item acceptable, so electronics, tires, chemicals, concrete, rock, dirt and fluorescent tubes stay off the pile regardless.

Open the Peoria bulky waste page

Taking it somewhere yourself?

Peoria's model is curbside rather than drop-off. Bulky waste is unlimited, the fee sits inside the annual bill, and everything from furniture and mattresses to wood, sheetrock, carpet and underpadding goes out with the weekly collection between 3 p.m. the day before the pickup and 6 a.m. on the day itself, three feet clear of the carts. The city publishes no transfer station, landfill or permanent drop-off for a resident on these pages, so the material that cannot ride the truck is routed by category instead: electronic waste is barred from Illinois landfills and goes to an Illinois EPA recommendation, chemicals and fluorescent tubes stay out of every curbside stream with Peoria County Solid Waste Management at 309-681-2550 answering sharps questions, and tires are handled by Firestone at 1601 N Knoxville, Plaza Tire at 1800 SW Washington or Tire Plus at 4700 N Brandywine, which the city says take them for a nominal fee because the city runs no tire programme. Yard waste has its own season from April 6 to December 11 and its own container, labelling and bundle rules, and any week that begins with one of the six listed holidays runs a day late. City bulky waste page with the unlimited curbside programme, the annual bill fee, the GFL contact, the three set-out branches and the refusal listCity other disposal page with the Illinois landfill ban on electronic waste, the sharps container rule and county contact, the absence of a city tire programme with three local tire businesses, the dead animal rules and the nuisance abatement numberCity yard waste page with the 2026 season dates, the container and bundle specifications, the set-out and return windows, the holiday delay list and the acceptable material

Customer reviews

Less stuff. A lot less stress.

“Quick and easy pickup. I wasn’t home and they sent me a picture of the pickup. Good communication too.”

Paul H.Google review

“Easy to schedule, same or next day appt and excellent prices. Highly recommend!”

Kathleen S.Trustpilot review

Selected customer reviews. Counts checked September 2026.

Before you book

A few things
worth knowing.

Bulk junk removal, from choosing your item to pickup day in Peoria.

How much does bulk junk removal cost in Peoria?

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.

Is there a limit on bulky waste in Peoria?

No item limit is published. The city states that bulky waste collection is unlimited in Peoria and that the fee is included in the annual bill, so a household puts out big items with the weekly trash collection after calling GFL at 309-688-0760 to flag the load, although the pickup happens without the call. Furniture, mattresses, building materials, carpet and underpadding are the published typical items, and electronics, tires, chemicals, concrete, rock, dirt and fluorescent tubes are refused.Official guidance

Who collects trash in Peoria?

The city of Peoria runs the collection under its Yes, Peoria Picks Up programme with GFL Environmental, and GFL answers at 309-688-0760 for bulky loads and dead animal reports. Bulky waste is published as unlimited with the fee included in the annual bill, so there is no separate large item charge, and the Public Works and Code Enforcement teams handle nuisance complaints at 309-494-8654.Official guidance

How do I put bulky waste out in Peoria?

Put it out between 3 p.m. the day before the weekly collection and 6 a.m. on the collection day. Anything small enough for the trash cart goes inside it with the lid closed, a bigger item is bagged and the tied bag sits at least three feet from the carts and other obstacles, and an item too large for a bag is set at least three feet clear as well. Calling GFL at 309-688-0760 flags the load so the truck can be staffed for it, although the city states the pickup happens without the call.Official guidance

How does yard waste collection work in Peoria?

Yard waste runs from April 6 to December 11 in 2026 and is collected the same day as trash. Use a plastic or metal cart of 40 to 45 gallons with two handles and a tight fitting lid, or a wheeled 65 or 95 gallon cart, labelled Yard Waste Only, or a compostable paper bag, but not a compostable plastic bag. Lids close, a filled bag stays under 30 pounds, containers sit three feet from the trash and recycling carts, and bundles are tied with nonmetallic cord at no more than five feet and 50 pounds.Official guidance

What will not be picked up as bulky waste in Peoria?

Six categories are refused: electronics such as computers, televisions and printers, tires, hazardous materials and chemicals, concrete, rock and dirt, and fluorescent tubes. Electronic waste cannot go to an Illinois landfill at all and the city points to the Illinois EPA for recommendations, chemicals and bulbs stay out of every curbside stream, and tires go to one of three local businesses the city names because Peoria runs no tire programme.Official guidance

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