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.
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.
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 Baton Rouge
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Bulk waste is collected once a week as part of the out-of-cart service that comes with the monthly solid waste fee, and the city defines it as items that are hard to containerize, naming furniture, large household items, mattresses, water heaters, tires, white goods and lawnmowers. A crew takes up to ten out-of-cart items on a collection day, and up to three of those can be bulk waste or recyclables.
City cost & eligibility
The out-of-cart collection is covered by the monthly solid waste, sewer and water fee rather than priced per item, and the retained pages publish the 7 dollar per month charge for an extra garbage cart but not the base monthly rate. Confirm the current rate and any charge for a load over the ten item cap with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090.
When & how
Put bulk waste out on the weekly out-of-cart collection day for the address, in its own pile separate from bagged leaves and bundled brush, with everything at the curb by 4 a.m.
Get it ready
Keep bulk waste unbagged and in a distinct pile, keep it inside the ten item cap, keep household hazardous waste out of it entirely, and keep demolition and remodeling material out because curbside service excludes it.
Furniture is named first in the city's bulk waste definition, so a couch goes out with the weekly out-of-cart collection rather than needing a booking, and it has to be left unbagged in its own pile.
City cost & eligibility
Furniture is collected inside the out-of-cart service that the monthly solid waste fee already covers, so no per item price is published, and the only published charge in that neighbourhood is the 7 dollar a month fee for an extra garbage cart. Confirm the current monthly rate with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090.
When & how
Set the piece out on the weekly out-of-cart collection day by 4 a.m., in a distinct pile away from bagged leaves and bundled brush.
Get it ready
Keep the piece unbagged, keep it inside the three item bulk sub-limit for the week, and keep it clear of the carts so the automated collection is not blocked.
Mattresses are named in the city's bulk waste definition, so bedding goes out with the weekly out-of-cart collection and no separate appointment or fee is published.
City cost & eligibility
The mattress is inside the out-of-cart service covered by the monthly solid waste fee, so no separate mattress price is published. Confirm the current monthly rate and the ten item cap with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090 if more than one bed is going out at once.
When & how
Put the mattress and box spring out on the weekly out-of-cart collection day by 4 a.m. There is no mattress appointment to book.
Get it ready
Keep bedding unbagged and in the bulk pile rather than the bagged leaf pile, keep it dry, and count each piece separately against the ten item cap.
White goods are collected as bulky recyclables once a week, with the city naming stoves, washers, refrigerators and other large appliances, and a second route is the city-parish drop-off at the North Landfill in Zachary.
City cost & eligibility
The curbside white goods collection is inside the out-of-cart service covered by the monthly solid waste fee, and no per appliance price is published. The landfill drop-off page publishes hours and payment windows but no rate either, so confirm the current charge with the city on 225-389-4813 for the landfill or 3-1-1 for curbside.
When & how
Put the appliance out with the weekly bulky recyclables collection, or deliver it to the North Landfill at 16001 Samuels Road in Zachary between 5:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Friday or 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.
Get it ready
Empty the unit and secure the doors before it goes out, keep it out of the garbage cart, and take a cooling appliance to a route that can handle the refrigerant rather than leaving it in a general pile without asking.
Electronics are not part of the curbside rules, and the city points to two named recyclers instead: the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council, which takes computers, phones, networking gear and LCD monitors only and charges for televisions, copiers and printers, and Atlas Electronics Recycling, which the city says offers free residential pickup.
City cost & eligibility
The pricing differs by route and by item. CACRC publishes a 10 dollar fee for a small printer and 25 dollars for a large printer, and states that fees apply to copiers and televisions, while the city describes Atlas Electronics Recycling as offering free residential pickup. Confirm the item and the price with CACRC on (225) 379-3577 or Atlas on (225) 800-2750 before handing anything over.
When & how
Take accepted electronics to CACRC at 1400 Main Street, open Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or book a residential pickup with Atlas. The city's semi-annual household hazardous material days also take batteries and cell phones.
Get it ready
Wipe data before handover, keep household batteries out of the electronics because CACRC refuses them, keep CRTs out because CACRC does not take them, and count a television separately because it is one of the items CACRC charges for.
Exercise equipment is not named anywhere in the city's item lists, so a machine has to be matched to the bulk waste definition and to the bulky recyclable stream, which the city describes as white goods and similar large metal items.
City cost & eligibility
No published rate names an exercise machine, because the curbside routes are covered by the monthly solid waste fee rather than priced per item. Confirm with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090 whether the machine goes out as bulk waste or as a bulky recyclable, and check the ten item out-of-cart cap at the same time.
When & how
Use the weekly out-of-cart collection day once the city confirms the machine fits the bulky stream, and keep it out of the garbage cart.
Get it ready
Break the machine down as far as it will come apart, separate any metal frame so it can be handled as a bulky recyclable, keep the parts in one distinct pile, and keep it inside the ten item cap.
Tires are collected curbside. The city lists tires in its bulk waste definition and, on the services page, caps the bulky recyclable stream at up to four automobile tires at a time.
City cost & eligibility
The tire collection is part of the out-of-cart service covered by the monthly solid waste fee, so no per tire price is published, unlike the 7 dollar a month extra cart charge the city does list. Confirm the current monthly rate and the four tire limit with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090.
When & how
Set the tires out with the weekly bulky recyclables collection, respecting the four automobile tire limit per collection, or take them to another route if there are more.
Get it ready
Keep tires out of the garbage and recycling carts, clean them so they can be handled, count them against the four tire bulky recyclable limit, and keep commercial quantities out because only resident generated waste is collected.
The monthly solid waste fee covers twice-a-week garbage for one cart, once-a-week recycling and once-a-week out-of-cart collection. Carts have to be City-Parish carts carrying the seal and a serial number, the lids have to be closed or the cart is not collected, carts need 3 feet of clearance from anything else, and they go out with the metal bar facing the street and the wheels toward the house. The garbage collection page says carts must be in place by 4 a.m. while the services page says recycling carts must be in place by 5 a.m., so the earlier time is the safe one. Extra garbage carts cost 7 dollars a month each and are billed on the same solid waste, sewer and water bill. Service does not run on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, and a holiday on a collection day moves service to the next scheduled day unless the city notifies residents otherwise.
Large items go out with the weekly out-of-cart collection
Bulk waste and yard waste share one weekly out-of-cart collection, and the city sorts them for the resident. Bulk waste is defined as items that are hard to containerize in a garbage cart, naming furniture, large household items, mattresses, water heaters, tires, white goods and lawnmowers, and it must not be bagged. Yard waste is bagged leaves and grass with brush and trimmings bundled instead, and the three kinds go in distinct piles. Crews collect at most ten out-of-cart items per collection day and only three of those can be bulk waste or recyclables, so a larger clear-out takes more than one week or a private contractor. Brush, branches and tree trimmings cannot exceed 5 feet in length, 6 inches in diameter or 40 pounds per item, and a separate bulky recyclable stream takes white goods such as stoves, washers and refrigerators plus up to four automobile tires at a time.
Hazardous waste, electronics and paint have their own routes
Household hazardous waste is barred from the carts and from the curb, and the city answers it with several published routes rather than one. It holds semi-annual spring and fall household hazardous material collection days, with business waste refused and the Fall 2026 date and location still to be announced. Electronics go to the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council at 1400 Main Street, which takes computers, phones, networking gear and LCD monitors only, charges for televisions, copiers and printers and refuses CRTs, or to Atlas Electronics Recycling, which the city says offers free residential pickup. Batteries and cell phones can go to a Call2Recycle drop-off or to a collection day. Paint is split by condition: empty or dried latex cans go in the trash, a can less than half full is opened and mixed with kitty litter to dry, cans more than half full wait for a collection day or go to a Habitat ReStore, which accepts full or partially full cans of latex paint or stain and full cans of oil paint year round. Recyclables can also be dropped at the Materials Recovery Facility on 7923 Tom Drive, which is open to the public around the clock and does not require sorting.
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 Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Environmental Services
Use the weekly out-of-cart collection for bulk waste
Any Baton Rouge household with furniture, a mattress, white goods, tires, a lawnmower or similar large items to clear.
Cost & conditions
The out-of-cart collection is covered by the monthly solid waste, sewer and water fee rather than priced per item, and the city publishes the 7 dollar a month charge for an extra garbage cart but not the base monthly rate. Confirm the current rate and the ten item cap with the city on 3-1-1 or 225-389-3090.
Arrange it
Put bulk waste, bagged leaves and bundled brush out in separate piles on the weekly out-of-cart collection day, with everything at the curb by 4 a.m.
Ten out-of-cart items per collection day with only three of them bulk waste or recyclables, tires limited to four automobile tires at a time, no household hazardous waste and no demolition or remodeling material.
City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Environmental Services
Drop recyclables at the Materials Recovery Facility
A household, apartment building or business with recyclables and no room to wait for the weekly cart.
Cost & conditions
The city publishes the drop-off location and the fact that it is open to the public with no sorting required, but it does not publish a fee, so confirm with the city office on 225-389-3090 if a large or unusual load is involved.
Arrange it
Bring recyclables to the MRF at 7923 Tom Drive, which is open seven days a week around the clock, with staff assistance available Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The drop-off is for recyclables, not for household hazardous waste or bulk waste, and materials do not need to be sorted but still have to be acceptable recyclables.
Recyclables brought by households, apartments and businesses, with no sorting required before drop-off
A recyclables drop-off rather than a waste site, so household hazardous waste and bulk waste are not part of it. Household hazardous material has its own city drop-off page, and service questions about missed pickups or cart problems go to the city office on 225-389-3090.
Open to the public seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with staff assistance Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The city publishes the facility, its round the clock access and the no sorting requirement but no fee, so confirm with the city office on 225-389-3090 if the load is large or unusual.
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Before you book
A few things worth knowing.
Bulk junk removal, from choosing your item to pickup day in Baton Rouge.
How much does bulk junk removal cost in Baton Rouge?+
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.
How many bulky items can go out in Baton Rouge?+
Crews collect a maximum of ten out-of-cart items per collection day, and up to three of those items can be bulk waste or recyclables, so a large pile can take more than one week. The city defines bulk waste as items not easily containerized in a garbage cart, such as furniture, large household items, mattresses, water heaters, tires, white goods and lawnmowers, and it should be left unbagged in its own pile.Official guidance
Will Baton Rouge pick up a couch?+
Yes, with the weekly out-of-cart collection. The city lists furniture first in its bulk waste definition, which covers items not easily containerized in a garbage cart, and bulky waste should not be bagged. The wrinkle is the volume limit rather than the item: crews take at most ten out-of-cart items per collection day, and only three of those can be bulk waste or recyclables.Official guidance
Do I need an appointment for a mattress pickup?+
No. The city names mattresses in its bulk waste definition, and bulk waste goes out with the weekly out-of-cart collection rather than a booked pickup, as long as it is left unbagged and the address stays inside the ten item out-of-cart cap for that day.Official guidance
How do white goods leave a Baton Rouge home?+
Two published ways. The city collects bulky recyclables once a week, and it names white goods such as stoves, washers, refrigerators and other large appliances in that stream, alongside up to four automobile tires. The city-parish also runs a white goods drop-off at the EBRP North Landfill, 16001 Samuels Road in Zachary, open Monday to Friday 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.Official guidance
Where do televisions and computers go in Baton Rouge?+
To the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council at 1400 Main Street, or to Atlas Electronics Recycling, which the city says offers free residential pickup. CACRC takes computers, laptops, tablets, phones, networking equipment, circuit boards and LCD monitors only, publishes a 10 dollar fee for small printers and 25 dollars for large ones, and states that fees apply to copiers and televisions. Household batteries, appliances, bulbs and CRTs are not accepted there.Official guidance
Can a treadmill go out with the trash in Baton Rouge?+
Not in the cart, but it may go out with the weekly out-of-cart collection. Exercise equipment is not named in the city's lists, while bulky recyclables are described as white goods and similar large items and bulk waste covers items too large for a cart, so the machine fits one of those two streams. Confirm which with the city on 3-1-1 before it goes out.Official guidance
How many tires will the city take?+
Up to four automobile tires at a time. The city's services page describes bulky recyclables as collected once weekly and includes white goods and up to 4 automobile tires, while the collection page lists tires generally inside the bulk waste definition. Anything beyond that has to go to another route, and only resident generated waste is collected.Official guidance
Who collects trash in Baton Rouge?+
The City-Parish Department of Environmental Services manages contracted garbage and recycling services for East Baton Rouge Parish, and the monthly solid waste fee covers twice-a-week garbage for one cart, once-a-week recycling and once-a-week out-of-cart collection. Extra garbage carts cost 7 dollars a month. Missed pickups and cart problems go through 3-1-1, the office on 225-389-3090 or after hours on 225-389-2070.Official guidance
Which holidays change collection?+
Only three: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Solid waste collection does not run on those days, and if the holiday falls on a collection day the service is provided on the next scheduled collection day unless the city notifies residents otherwise. The twice weekly garbage schedule means a single missed day is usually covered by the other collection in the same week.Official guidance
How much will the crew take at once?+
A maximum of ten out-of-cart items per collection day, and only three of those can be bulk waste or recyclables, with the rest expected to be bagged leaves, grass or bundled brush. Anything above the cap waits for the following out-of-cart collection day or goes to a private contractor. Brush, branches and trimmings are limited to 5 feet in length, 6 inches in diameter and 40 pounds per item.Official guidance
What time do carts have to be out?+
The city publishes two times, so use the earlier one: the garbage collection page says garbage and recycling carts must be in place by 4 a.m. on the scheduled service day, while the services page says recycling carts must be in place by 5 a.m. Collection times vary through the day, and a cart that is not out on time is not counted as a missed pickup.Official guidance
Where can I take an appliance instead of setting it out?+
To the city-parish white goods drop-off at the EBRP North Landfill, 16001 Samuels Road in Zachary, open 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Cash and cheque payments are only taken between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, so arrive inside that window if paying that way.Official guidance
What cannot be recycled with electronics?+
CRTs, household batteries, appliances and furniture, light bulbs of any kind, media such as tapes and discs, DVD and CD players and VCRs, MP3 players, cameras and video recorders, stereo equipment, speakers, ballasts, and toner and ink jet cartridges are all refused by the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council. LCD monitors are accepted while CRTs are not, and a television is one of the items the organisation charges a fee for.Official guidance
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