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Book before you bring it out.
Your items can still be inside when you book. Follow the readiness instructions in your confirmation.
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Choose a clear outdoor spot.
You arrange any carrying out of your home or down interior stairs. Keep entrances, sidewalks and shared access clear. We handle loading and haul-away from outside.
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Show us where to find it.
Add a photo and clear location notes. Contact us before booking if a gate, building rule or restricted access window needs an arrangement.
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City collection The city's own answers and its moving guide both send a couch or any other item that will not fit in the cart to the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request. Nothing goes to the curb until that request is submitted and accepted. Couch and furniture collection carries no published item price. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the form says an excessive pile is charged once a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm your load at 785-832-3032.
City collection A mattress is a bulky item, so it cannot go in the city cart and is requested through the same Residential Special Item Pick-Up form the city uses for couches and appliances. The form names bulky items that do not fit in the cart, carpet and tires, so confirm the mattress with the Solid Waste Division before you set it out. No mattress price is published. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the request form says an excessive pile is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm the item and the amount that applies at 785-832-3032.
City collection An appliance is collected through the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request, and Lawrence requires all food and other contents to be removed before the crew arrives. Small appliances such as toasters and microwaves may legally go in the household trash, and the city also points to recycling for them. No appliance price is published. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the form says a pile that is excessive or subject to a fee is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm the appliance and its handling at 785-832-3032.
City collection Lawrence collects household trash once a week in a city-issued cart. Everything has to be inside the cart with the lid fully closed and nothing resting on top. Cart service is part of the city utility bill. The 2026 rate sheet lists $24.01 a month for a standard 65-gallon cart, $26.55 with a 95-gallon trash cart, $4.79 for an extra 65-gallon cart, $6.07 for an extra 95-gallon cart, and multifamily rates of $24.01 per unit with carts or $18.69 per unit with shared dumpsters. Confirm your account terms with utility billing.
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.
Selected customer reviews. Counts checked September 2026.
The local disposal guide
Will the city take it?
In Lawrence the city itself collects trash once a week from city-issued carts, and an item that will not fit in the cart goes through a Residential Special Item Pick-Up request instead. Electronics, batteries and household chemicals are kept out of both the trash and the blue recycling cart, and the city routes them to its own drop-off options. Prepare the item, get the request in before the deadline for your trash day, and confirm anything unusual with the Solid Waste Division.
A mattress is a bulky item, so it cannot go in the city cart and is requested through the same Residential Special Item Pick-Up form the city uses for couches and appliances. The form names bulky items that do not fit in the cart, carpet and tires, so confirm the mattress with the Solid Waste Division before you set it out.
City cost & eligibility
No mattress price is published. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the request form says an excessive pile is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm the item and the amount that applies at 785-832-3032.
When & how
Submit the request by 4 p.m. on the business day before your regular trash day, or by Friday at 4 p.m. if your collection day is Monday. Bulky items are not collected during holiday weeks.
Get it ready
Keep the mattress dry and take it to the curb where your carts are normally set only once the request is accepted. Ask whether it has to be wrapped or bagged before the crew arrives.
The city's own answers and its moving guide both send a couch or any other item that will not fit in the cart to the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request. Nothing goes to the curb until that request is submitted and accepted.
City cost & eligibility
Couch and furniture collection carries no published item price. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the form says an excessive pile is charged once a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm your load at 785-832-3032.
When & how
Request collection for your next trash day and get the form in by 4 p.m. the business day before it. Holiday weeks have no bulky collections.
Get it ready
Describe every piece on the form, take out drawers where you can, and have the furniture at the curb where the carts go once the request is accepted. Keep it clear of the cart, the sidewalk and the street.
Washers, dryers, refrigerators and other appliances
Special rules apply
An appliance is collected through the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request, and Lawrence requires all food and other contents to be removed before the crew arrives. Small appliances such as toasters and microwaves may legally go in the household trash, and the city also points to recycling for them.
City cost & eligibility
No appliance price is published. The 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90, and the form says a pile that is excessive or subject to a fee is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site. Confirm the appliance and its handling at 785-832-3032.
When & how
Request the collection for your trash day and meet the form deadline. Cooling appliances cannot go in a roll-off container, so they stay on this request.
Get it ready
Empty the appliance of food and any other contents before the crew arrives, or the driver will leave it. Ask the division how a refrigerator or freezer is handled and whether refrigerant recovery has to be arranged before collection.
Electronics never belong in the blue recycling cart or the trash. Lawrence points to its Recyclable Materials Directory for year-round drop-off sites, names Goodwill and Best Buy as local retail options, and runs a one-day collection most years with a contractor.
City cost & eligibility
The city's 2026 collection day charged $40 for each CRT television, CRT monitor or projection television and $10 for each LCD television or monitor, paid by cash, PayPal or Venmo only. Those were one-day event prices and a drop-off outlet or retailer sets its own charge, so confirm the current amount before you load.
When & how
Check the city page for the current collection date. Year-round, use the directory or a retailer and confirm its hours before you travel.
Get it ready
Erase personal data before a computer leaves your hands. Take household batteries out and use the Household Hazardous Waste facility for them, and keep the device out of the trash and the recycling cart.
Lawrence settles construction waste by amount, frequency and whether the site is residential or commercial, and asks you to call the Solid Waste Division about lumber, rock, sheetrock and similar material. A larger project uses a city roll-off container or a private receiver.
City cost & eligibility
For 2026 a roll-off container rental runs from $105.13 to $148.86 and the collection charge from $140.25 to $329.71 depending on size, with $79.86 for a blocked or overloaded container and a per-ton landfill charge of $39.41 set by Hamm Sanitary Landfill. Small residential loads are quoted by the division, so confirm the load before you start.
When & how
Call the division before the project begins, and reserve a roll-off container if the material will not fit a cart.
Get it ready
Keep heavy inert material such as concrete, rock and demolition debris separate, because a container cannot be filled to capacity with it. Tires, paint, chemicals, hazardous waste, yard waste and anything containing Freon are prohibited in a roll-off container, and it may be filled level full only.
No Lawrence page names treadmills, ellipticals or home gyms, so treat an exercise machine as a bulky item that has to be confirmed before it goes to the curb. The city collects oversized items through the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request, and a heavy machine is evaluated before it is accepted.
City cost & eligibility
There is no published price for an exercise machine. The request form says an excessive pile is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site, and the 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90. Ask for the cost of your machine at 785-832-3032.
When & how
Ask before you move it. Confirm acceptance and a collection day, then meet the 4 p.m. deadline on the business day before your trash day.
Get it ready
Describe the machine, its dimensions and whether it comes apart. Take off any console, motor or battery and ask whether those parts follow the electronics route instead.
Anything that will not fit in the city cart is scheduled through the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request, alongside carpet and tires. Lawrence asks residents not to leave bulky items at the curb without a scheduled collection.
City cost & eligibility
Beyond carpet over 8 rolls per household per year at $2.00 a roll and tires over 5 per household per year at $1.75 off rim or $3.00 on rim, the form publishes no item price. An excessive pile is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site, and the 2026 rate sheet lists the residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge at $52.90, so confirm your pile.
When & how
Submit the form by 4 p.m. on the business day before your trash day, or by Friday for a Monday collection. There is no bulky collection during a holiday week.
Get it ready
Report carpet and tires separately on the form, and tie each carpet roll so it is no longer than 5 feet and 18 inches in diameter, at no more than 65 pounds per roll. Set everything at the curb where the carts go once the request is accepted.
Lawrence collects household trash once a week in a city-issued cart. Everything has to be inside the cart with the lid fully closed and nothing resting on top.
City cost & eligibility
Cart service is part of the city utility bill. The 2026 rate sheet lists $24.01 a month for a standard 65-gallon cart, $26.55 with a 95-gallon trash cart, $4.79 for an extra 65-gallon cart, $6.07 for an extra 95-gallon cart, and multifamily rates of $24.01 per unit with carts or $18.69 per unit with shared dumpsters. Confirm your account terms with utility billing.
When & how
Set the cart at the curb by 6 a.m. on your collection day. Trash is collected once a week.
Get it ready
Bag loose material such as sawdust, cat litter and shredded paper. Put sharps in a labelled puncture-proof container and let fireplace ashes cool completely. Hazardous material does not belong in the cart.
Lawrence schedules bulky items for your next trash day, and the request has to reach the city by 4 p.m. on the business day before that collection. A request sent later moves to the following week, and no bulky items are collected during a holiday week.
The request form asks you to place bulky items at the curb where your trash carts are normally set, and the city asks residents not to leave anything out before a collection is scheduled. Keep the pile clear of the cart, the sidewalk and the street so the crew can reach it.
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.
City of Lawrence Solid Waste Division and the Lawrence/Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste facility
Request a city large item collection
A Lawrence household with a couch, mattress, appliance or other bulky item that will not fit in the city cart, plus carpet and tires.
Cost & conditions
The city publishes no per-item price for a bulky collection. Carpet over 8 rolls per household per year is charged $2.00 a roll and tires over 5 per household per year are charged $1.75 off rim or $3.00 on rim, an excessive pile is charged after a supervisor evaluates the site, and the 2026 rate sheet lists a residential special pick-up, late set-out and off-cycle charge of $52.90. Confirm your items at 785-832-3032.
Arrange it
Describe the items on the city's Residential Special Item Pick-Up form and submit it by 4 p.m. on the business day before your trash day, or by Friday at 4 p.m. for a Monday collection. Have everything at the curb where the carts are normally set.
Bulky items are not collected during holiday weeks, an appliance has to be emptied of food before the crew arrives, and nothing should be set out before the request is accepted.
City of Lawrence Solid Waste Division and the Lawrence/Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste facility
Rent a city roll-off container
A household or contractor inside city limits with a larger cleanout, moving load or remodeling project.
Cost & conditions
From $105.13 for the container rental for a 12 cubic yard roll-off, before the collection charge by container size, the landfill's per-ton charge, and any blocked or overloaded container charge. Locations inside Lawrence city limits. Residential and commercial charges are prepaid before the rental is scheduled, and contractor empty-and-return service, permanent placement, schools and universities are arranged with the Solid Waste Division directly.
Arrange it
Reserve the container through the city's rental tool, then call the division for contractor empty-and-return service, permanent placement, schools or universities.
Municipal solid waste and construction material are accepted, but heavy material cannot fill the container to capacity, tires, paint, chemicals, hazardous waste, yard waste and anything containing Freon are prohibited, and the container may be filled level full only.
A household with computers and computer equipment that still have a take-back route rather than the city collection day.
Cost & conditions
A take-back program sets its own terms. The city links Dell Reconnect as accepting computers and computer equipment, with no Lawrence price published here, so confirm acceptance at the store before you load the car.
Arrange it
Check the Dell Reconnect drop-off list for a participating Goodwill store, then confirm the store's current hours and what it will take.
Computers and computer equipment only. Televisions and other electronics are not part of this route, so use the city directory or another receiver for those.
A household with a television, monitor or small device that a retail program will take before the next city collection day.
Cost & conditions
A retail program sets its own acceptance list and can charge for televisions and monitors. The city links Best Buy as offering electronics recycling for a range of devices, so confirm the device and any charge with the store before you travel.
Arrange it
Check the store's current recycling terms, then bring the device to the store during its posted hours.
Retail programs do not take every item, and the store decides what it accepts and what it charges. Confirm first so the device does not travel for nothing.
City of Lawrence / Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste Facility
2201 Kresge Road, Lawrence, KS 66049
Household hazardous waste from Douglas County households, including batteries of all types, mercury light bulbs, automotive products and car batteries, paint and home improvement products, aerosols and liquid cooking oil. A Product Reuse Store gives usable products away.
Appointment only. A household drop-off is limited to 75 pounds a day at staff discretion, products have to be labelled and carried upright, and staff direct the unloading. Electronics and televisions are not part of this facility, and qualifying businesses pay a fee based on material and amount.
Tuesday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and select Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., by appointment. Closed on city-observed holidays.
No charge. Douglas County households, by appointment. Qualifying Douglas County businesses pay a fee based on material and amount.
Prices, timing and the details that matter at your address.
How much does pickup cost?+
Choose your items to see the exact price. A standard sofa is $79 first and $29 additional. The highest first-item price applies once; every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Review any applicable sales tax and the final total before payment.
Can I book a pickup for today?+
Book by 2pm at your pickup address for same-day pickup, where available. Choose from the dates shown at checkout. Your booking is for a pickup day, and we text you when your hauler is on the way.
Do my items need to be outside when I book?+
You can book while your items are still inside. Arrange any indoor carrying and have everything outside and accessible according to your confirmation. We load and haul it away from there. Contact us before booking if your property has restricted access.
How do I get a mattress picked up in Lawrence?+
Lawrence handles a mattress as a bulky item through the Residential Special Item Pick-Up request, the same request used for couches and appliances. Send the form by the deadline for your trash day and confirm the mattress with the Solid Waste Division first, because the form itself names bulky items, carpet and tires.Official guidance
Will the city take a couch that will not fit in the cart?+
Yes. Lawrence names couches among the large items that do not fit in the cart and asks you to submit a Residential Special Item Pick-Up request rather than leaving furniture out. Have the couch at the curb only after the request is accepted.Official guidance
What has to be done to a refrigerator before pickup?+
All food and other items must be removed first. The request form states that if the driver arrives and food is still inside, the appliance is left behind. Cooling appliances are also prohibited in roll-off containers, so confirm refrigerant handling with the Solid Waste Division.Official guidance
Can a television go in the blue recycling cart?+
No. The city states that electronics should never be placed in recycling carts. Use the Recyclable Materials Directory or a retailer for year-round drop-off, or the city's own collection day, and confirm the device and any charge with the site you choose.Official guidance
When does a large item request have to be in?+
Submit the form by 4 p.m. on the business day before your regular trash day, and by Friday at 4 p.m. if your collection day is Monday. A late request moves to the following week, and bulky items are not collected during holiday weeks.Official guidance
Who do I call about an item the form does not list?+
Call the Solid Waste Division at 785-832-3032 or email solidwaste@lawrenceks.gov. The city's Recyclable Materials Directory lists local drop-off outlets for material that does not belong in the trash, in the recycling cart or on a bulky request.Official guidance
How do I get rid of paint, batteries or other household chemicals?+
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste facility at 2201 Kresge Road takes household hazardous waste from Douglas County households at no charge on an appointment-only basis, Tuesday to Thursday and on select Saturdays. A household drop-off is limited to 75 pounds a day.Official guidance
