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 Waukegan: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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One bulk item may sit beside the trash cart each week, and anything heavier or larger has to be scheduled and paid for directly.
A couch, love seat, chair or bed frame is the kind of bulk item the weekly collection takes, one piece at a time.
Bedding is a bulk item, and a mattress is only collected once it is wrapped in plastic.
Appliances are not a routine curbside item: LRS preschedules and prepays every appliance and white goods removal.
Electronics are banned from the landfill and never ride the curbside truck, so they go to the city dumpster at Public Works or to a free SWALCO drop-off for county residents.
Remodeling material is not cart waste or a routine bulk item, so it moves as a scheduled special pickup charged by the yard or as a roll-off container.
Exercise machines are not named on any published list, so the item is confirmed with the hauler before it goes out.
The handoff matters
A single bulk item such as furniture, a bed frame or a mattress may sit next to the trash cart on the regular collection day. A second item, anything over 50 pounds, and any item needing extra labor or equipment has to be scheduled with LRS at least 24 hours ahead and is charged directly, and LRS will give a cost estimate for a special refuse collection.
City waste collection page with the LRS contract, the weekly garbage, recycling and yard waste schedule, the one bulk item rule, the 5 PM and 6 PM cart windows, the recycling cart placement and contamination tagging, the property tax billing, the 24 hour rule for extra pickups and items over 50 pounds, the mattress wrapping requirement, the holiday delay rule and the three Public Works drop-offs for electronics, tires and textilesLRS Waukegan program page with the free recycling cart sizes and additional cart rentals, the waste sticker price, the yard waste season and subscription terms, the refuse yard waste definition with its unacceptable list, the free Christmas tree collection, the bulk item examples, the 50 pound rule, the mattress wrapping instruction, the appliance preschedule and prepay requirement, the e-waste landfill ban, the special refuse collection route, the DIY construction rules with by the yard charging and the billing split between the city and LRSThe city keeps an electronics dumpster and a tire dumpster at 1700 N. McAree Road, both open on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. excluding holidays, and tires have to come off the rims. A textile bin sits just outside the gate and is available around the clock. Electronics and tires are never collected with the regular trash.
City waste collection page with the LRS contract, the weekly garbage, recycling and yard waste schedule, the one bulk item rule, the 5 PM and 6 PM cart windows, the recycling cart placement and contamination tagging, the property tax billing, the 24 hour rule for extra pickups and items over 50 pounds, the mattress wrapping requirement, the holiday delay rule and the three Public Works drop-offs for electronics, tires and textilesCity staff directory record for the Public Works department with the McAree Road physical address, the phone and fax numbers and the department hoursThe SWALCO electronics network is free to Lake County residents with no appointment and a limit of seven items per visit, and the Gurnee household chemical waste drop-off takes chemicals, paint, batteries and bulbs by appointment, twice a month except December, with mobile events from April through October. Electronics are refused at the chemical waste events, and chemical waste is refused at the electronics sites.
SWALCO residential electronics recycling page with the Lake County residency scope, the refusal of electronics at the Gurnee chemical waste facility, the free year round drop-off network with no appointments and the seven item limit, and the Illinois landfill ban covering televisions, monitors, computers and printersSWALCO electronics year round drop-off locations with the Wauconda LRS site address and weekday hours, the Grayslake public works facility hours, the free access for county residents, the business prohibition and the seven item limitSWALCO household chemical waste page with the residential only scope, the year round appointment drop-off at the Gurnee facility twice a month except December, the mobile collection events from April through October and the other permanent Illinois facilitiesSWALCO chemical waste accepted and unacceptable items with the accepted categories including paints, solvents, batteries, fluorescent lamps, mercury devices, motor oil and pool chemicals, and the refusal list covering pharmaceuticals, automotive and marine lead acid batteries, explosives, fire extinguishers, fireworks, household electronics and lab chemicalsUse 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 Waukegan.
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. LRS accepts a single bulk item beside the trash cart on the regular collection day, such as furniture or carpeting. Additional items placed out the same day need prepayment and prescheduling, and a separate extra pickup is scheduled at least 24 hours in advance.Official guidance
Call LRS before it goes out so the right equipment is used, because anything heavier than 50 pounds has to be scheduled. The same call handles a special refuse collection for items needing extra labor, and LRS will give a cost estimate before the pickup.Official guidance
Yes. The hauler names a love seat or sofa and one part of a sectional couch among the examples of a bulk item that can go out with the weekly collection, and a chair, bed frame or wall picture is treated the same way, one item a week.Official guidance
Place it next to the trash cart on the regular collection day, keep it out of the street, and schedule anything over 50 pounds or anything beyond the single weekly item with LRS in advance. A sleeper sofa may be handled as a special refuse collection with an estimate rather than as the ordinary bulk item.Official guidance
Wrap it in plastic for health and safety and tape the plastic completely on all corners so no part of the mattress is exposed. Mattress wrap is sold online and at grocery, hardware, storage and moving stores, and loose plastic works if it is fully secured.Official guidance
The hauler lists a bed frame, a box spring and a mattress as separate examples of one bulk item, and only one goes out each week, so a full set either waits for separate weeks or is scheduled as additional items with prepayment and prescheduling.Official guidance
Every appliance or white goods item has to be prescheduled and prepaid through LRS customer service before collection. The unit is then set out on the agreed day, and the charge is billed directly by LRS rather than through the city refuse service.Official guidance
It follows the same prescheduled appliance route, with the unit emptied and the doors removed. Ask LRS when the pickup is booked whether the refrigerant has to be recovered first, because the county electronics program refuses refrigerators, air conditioners and dehumidifiers and no page publishes a degassing step for a home pickup.Official guidance
The city has an electronics dumpster at the Public Works yard on McAree Road, and SWALCO runs free year round electronics drop-offs for Lake County residents. Electronics are banned from the landfill and are never collected with the regular trash.Official guidance
The SWALCO drop-off sites take up to seven electronic items per visit, with no limit on miscellaneous cords and cables, and no appointment is needed during posted hours. Businesses are prohibited, and residents who arrive outside the posted hours are turned away.Official guidance
No. Remodeling waste such as drywall, plywood, paneling, lumber, doors, windows, cabinets, porcelain fixtures, sod, fencing, concrete and rocks requires a scheduled special pickup, and the city page groups building materials with the extra pickups that have to be arranged with LRS in advance.Official guidance
LRS estimates the load and charges construction material by the yard, and the estimate comes before the pickup. A larger project can use one of the roll-off containers the same company offers for construction debris.Official guidance
Exercise equipment is not on the published bulk example list, which names a bed frame, box spring, bicycle, chair, love seat or sofa, one part of a sectional, mattress, frame and wall picture. Call LRS and describe the machine before it is set out.Official guidance
Fold or break the frame down as far as it goes, remove the loose weights and the console, and keep the pieces together in one spot beside the cart. If LRS treats it as a special refuse collection, the pickup is estimated and scheduled before the machine goes out.Official guidance
It is the route LRS uses for an item that needs extra labor or equipment, such as a sleeper sofa, construction debris or a television console, when it goes beyond the single weekly bulk item. LRS gives a cost estimate and does not guarantee that every item can be collected.Official guidance
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