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 University City: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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Large furniture goes out during one of two bulk weeks a year at the front kerb only, up to three large items or seven smaller ones, with the household's area deciding the dates.
Appliances count as bulk items during the spring and fall weeks, and a refrigerator or air conditioner is taken only once the freon has been removed.
The handoff matters
Every University City household has one black trash cart and one blue recycling cart, or access to a city issued dumpster, and household trash or recycling has to be inside the designated container because nothing placed outside it will be collected. Carts go curbside by 6:30am on the collection day or after 4 pm the day before and come back in by 9:00pm that day, the capacity is 200 pounds, and the cart has to be no more than four feet from the kerb with no obstruction such as another cart, a parked car, a street light or a tree within four feet. An overloaded cart may be left unemptied and can draw a ticket. Appliances including microwaves and freon units, televisions, computers, hazardous material, tires, construction debris, batteries, liquid waste, fluorescent bulbs, heavy rigid metal and motor oil are all on the list of things that cannot go in the trash cart.
City sanitation page with the department scope, the operational services office and contacts, the end of the yard waste sticker requirement, the cart and collection guidelines, the 200 pound cart capacity, the materials banned from the trash cart and the route billing cycleBulk collection runs twice a year for every neighbourhood, in the spring and again in the autumn, and the date depends on whether the address is in the west, central or east area, which residents confirm with Public Works on 314-505-8560 or on the September and April pages of the city calendar. Acceptable items are collected by city staff at the front kerb only, and dumping them in an alley, street or yard is not an option. The household limit is three large items or seven smaller ones within one to three feet of the kerb, placed by Sunday night of the scheduled week, with only one pass down each street and access left clear of parked vehicles. Glass doors, tables, windows and mirrors must be wrapped in cardboard, freon has to be removed from refrigerators and air conditioners, and the solid waste account must be current to take part.
City bulk item collection page with the twice yearly spring and fall weeks, the east, west and central areas, the front curb rule, the three large or seven small item limit, the preparation requirements and the accepted and refused listsLeaf collection runs city-wide for three weeks in the spring and six weeks in the autumn, and residents rake the leaves to the kerb line the Sunday before collection begins in their area, checking the schedule or the white banners for dates. Bags are not needed for leaves during those windows, but the pile has to stay pure: gumballs, trash, small branches and limbs, brush and grass clippings must not be mixed in with the leaves and instead go into biodegradable bags for pickup on the regular trash and recycling collection day. Leaves may not be swept into the street more than three days before the window opens or after it closes, and yard waste of any kind may not go into a city container because Missouri bans it from landfills. The yard waste sticker that older guidance still mentions was abolished effective March 11, 2025.
City leaf collection and yard waste page with the three week spring and six week fall leaf windows, the Sunday set-out rule, the prohibition on other yard waste mixed with leaves and the biodegradable bag route on the regular collection dayCity sanitation page with the department scope, the operational services office and contacts, the end of the yard waste sticker requirement, the cart and collection guidelines, the 200 pound cart capacity, the materials banned from the trash cart and the route billing cycleUse 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 University City.
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.
On one of the two bulk weeks the city runs each year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, arranged by whether the address sits in the west, central or east area. City staff collect acceptable items at the front kerb only, never from an alley, street or yard, and the household may set out no more than three large items or seven smaller ones within one to three feet of the kerb by Sunday night of its assigned week, because only one pass is made down each street. The solid waste account has to be current to take part.Official guidance
The freon comes out first. The bulk programme accepts large appliances including refrigerators, stoves, water heaters, washers, dryers, microwaves and small air conditioners, but it states plainly that freon must be removed from refrigerators and air conditioners before collection. Appliances can also never go in the weekly trash cart, because microwaves and freon units are on the city's list of materials that must not be placed there. The appliance then goes to the front kerb during the household's spring or autumn bulk week.Official guidance
The City of University City Sanitation Department does, and it is one of the few municipalities in the St Louis area that owns and operates its own transfer station and refuse and recycling trucks. Each household has one black trash cart and one blue recycling cart, or a city dumpster, with nothing collected outside the container. Carts go out by 6:30am on the collection day or after 4 pm the night before and come back in by 9:00pm, the capacity is 200 pounds, and the solid waste account must be kept current, with billing statements staggered by route through the year.Official guidance
Twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, with the exact week decided by whether the address is in the west, central or east area. Residents confirm their area and dates through the city map, the street listing or Public Works on 314-505-8560, or by checking the September and April pages of the city calendar. Acceptable items go to the front kerb only by Sunday night of the assigned week, with three large items or seven smaller ones allowed and only one pass made down each street.Official guidance
Computers and televisions are no longer accepted at bulk collection, and the city instead runs electronics events in the spring and autumn. Along with those, the refused list covers hazardous materials and chemicals, commercial items or business equipment, yard waste, tree trunks and logs, building or construction debris, tires, auto batteries and motors, railroad ties, barrel drums, concrete, bricks, landscaping stones, boulders, rocks, dirt and household trash, and setting any of them out can draw a ticket. Freon must be removed from refrigerators and air conditioners before those units are collected, and glass doors, tables, windows and mirrors must be wrapped in cardboard.Official guidance
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