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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.
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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 Waltham: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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The City collects recycling and household trash every week on one collection day for the address, using a blue wheeled recycling cart the City supplies and trash barrels the property owner provides.
A household may set out one bulk item a week alongside its barrels, where a bulk item is something that will not fit in a barrel but can still be collected and crushed by the trash truck.
Massachusetts bans mattresses from curbside trash, so bedding goes out through an appointment the City books with its contracted mattress recycler.
The City's hauler collects major appliances for recycling by appointment, within a published weekly allowance of two units.
Televisions and computer monitors are collected by appointment only because they are hazardous, while other electronics have a retail drop off the City names and a trash route when they cannot be recycled.
Construction and demolition material is banned from the barrels and the recycling cart, and the City directs the resident to a private hauler.
The City names no workout machine in any of its lists, so the route depends on whether the unit fits the bulk definition and how much it weighs.
Household chemicals never belong in the barrels or the cart, and the City runs a seasonal regional collection that requires advance registration.
The handoff matters
Put everything out by 7 a.m. on the collection day, and the City also allows containers to go curbside one hour before sundown the night before. Trash goes in a bag and then in a barrel with the lid closed, and only the wheeled recycling cart the City supplied is collected.
City trash and recycling frequently asked questions with the barrel size, weight and lid rules, the city cart requirement, the holiday week delay table, the set out timing and the missed pickup instructionCity trash, recycling and yard waste schedule page with the weekly zone collection, the curbside set out window, the A and B week yard waste rotation and its preparation rules, the leaf vacuum program and the Recycling Department address and phoneCity residential recycling and trash guide for 2026-2027 with the barrel and cart rules, the weekly bulk allowance and its boundaries, the mattress and textile ban, the appointment collections for white goods and screens, the carpet rule, the construction ban, the hazardous waste season and the annual Zero Waste DayA household may put out one bulk item each week next to the barrels, and the item has to be something that will not fit in a barrel but can still be collected and crushed by the truck. Each section of a sectional couch counts as its own item and goes out in a different week, and the City requires a call before anything over 100 pounds goes out.
City bulk item disposal page with the one item per week allowance, the definition of a bulk item, the furniture examples, the sectional rule and the six unit building scopeCity residential recycling and trash guide for 2026-2027 with the barrel and cart rules, the weekly bulk allowance and its boundaries, the mattress and textile ban, the appointment collections for white goods and screens, the carpet rule, the construction ban, the hazardous waste season and the annual Zero Waste DayIn a week with a holiday, each collection day shifts one day later for the remainder of the week. A Monday route moves to Tuesday, and a Friday route moves to Saturday, so the barrels wait a day rather than going out on the usual morning.
City trash and recycling frequently asked questions with the barrel size, weight and lid rules, the city cart requirement, the holiday week delay table, the set out timing and the missed pickup instructionMattresses, textiles, construction and demolition material, televisions and computer monitors, appliances and household chemicals are all refused in the barrels and the recycling cart. Each of those items has its own route, and an item over 100 pounds needs a call before it goes out at all.
City residential recycling and trash guide for 2026-2027 with the barrel and cart rules, the weekly bulk allowance and its boundaries, the mattress and textile ban, the appointment collections for white goods and screens, the carpet rule, the construction ban, the hazardous waste season and the annual Zero Waste DayCity construction waste disposal page with the ban on construction and demolition material in barrels and carts, the named banned materials and the instruction to contract a private haulerCity electronics and appliance page with the appointment only television and monitor collection, the hazardous screen reason, the retail drop off the City names for other devices, the appliance appointment and preparation rules, and the gas grill and mower handlingThe City collection covers buildings with six or fewer units, and each family or resident in one of those buildings keeps its own weekly bulk allowance. A larger apartment building or condo complex arranges collection through building management, the condo association or a private company instead.
City mattress recycling page with the statewide disposal ban, the contracted appointment collection for buildings of six or fewer units, the annual unit limit, the preparation and placement rules and the options for larger buildingsCity bulk item disposal page with the one item per week allowance, the definition of a bulk item, the furniture examples, the sectional rule and the six unit building scopeUse 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 Waltham.
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.
The City supplies one blue wheeled recycling cart per household and collects only the carts it distributed, while the trash barrel is the property owner's responsibility. A barrel may not exceed 32 gallons or 50 pounds, must have a lid, and holds trash that is already inside a bag.Official guidance
One item a week, in addition to the barrels, and each household in a multi-family building with six or fewer units has the same allowance beside its own barrels. A sectional couch is not one item, because each section counts separately and has to be set out in a different week.Official guidance
Call the Waltham Recycling Department to book an appointment with the mattress recycler the City contracts, then put the mattress out on that date rather than on your regular collection day. The allowance is six units per household in a calendar year, counting a mattress or a box spring as one unit.Official guidance
Call the contracted hauler to book the collection, and make the call before 3:30 p.m. on the day before the appointment. Leave the unit upright at the curb by 7 a.m. with all refrigerator and freezer doors removed, because the driver does not move items from the house to the curb.Official guidance
They are collected by the contracted hauler by appointment on your regular collection day, scheduled at least 24 hours ahead, because the City treats screens as hazardous material that has to be recycled. Put the item out by 7 a.m. on that day and move it to the curb yourself, since the driver does not help with transport.Official guidance
To a private hauler rather than the curb. Massachusetts bans the material from household disposal, the City lists asphalt, brick, concrete, metal, wood, clean wallboard and toilets among the banned items, and the City states that the trash hauler will not collect any of it.Official guidance
The City does not name workout machines, so the test is the bulk definition itself: the item has to be something that will not fit in a barrel but can still be collected and crushed by the truck, and it counts as the one bulk item for that week. Call before anything over 100 pounds goes out, and take apart what can be separated so the heaviest piece is manageable.Official guidance
Yes, and a resident without a confirmed registration is not allowed to drop off. Registration closes at noon the Friday before the event or when the event fills up, and proof of Waltham residency such as a license or a Waltham bill has to come with you to the collection.Official guidance
The City runs the residential collection and a contracted hauler does the work, while the Recycling Department handles carts, disposal questions and the special appointments. The route serves buildings with six or fewer units, and a larger building arranges its own service.Official guidance
The City publishes a pickup map that returns the trash and recycling day for an address, and the same map reports the A week or B week assignment used for yard waste. Trash and recycling are collected weekly on that day, and a holiday week pushes the rest of the week one day later.Official guidance
Report a missed trash, recycling or yard waste collection on the city line during weekday hours, and the department can follow up with the hauler on the route. If the material went out after 7 a.m., do not call, because the City asks residents to hold it for the following week instead.Official guidance
Call the Recycling Department, which supplies the household cart and takes requests for an extra one. A broken cart is repaired or replaced through the same call, and only the wheeled carts the City distributed are collected at the curb.Official guidance
The city collection route and the contracted mattress appointment both apply to buildings with six or fewer units, so a larger apartment building or condo complex arranges trash, recycling and bedding collection through building management, the condo association or a private company. The City also publishes a directory of donation and reuse options for residents in that situation.Official guidance
The City holds an annual Zero Waste Day at Nipper Maher Park where clothing, car tires, electronics, books and metal are recycled at no charge along with paper shredding. The date published in the current guide has already passed, so confirm the next date with the Recycling Department.Official guidance
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