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.
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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 Utica: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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A mattress is a bulk item in Utica, so it comes off the curb as the single bulky item the city allows each week per building, or it goes to EcoDrop Utica as a self-haul bulky item.
A couch, dresser or large chair is a bulk item in Utica, collected once a week off the curb with the blue bag garbage, or self-hauled to EcoDrop Utica for the published per-item rate.
Appliances are the bulk items Utica names first, and the Authority prices them in two tiers: household white goods are free at the drop-off while a unit that still holds refrigerant carries a published per-item fee.
New York State bans electronics from the garbage, and Utica answers that two ways: the device can be the weekly bulky item at the curb, or it can go to EcoDrop Utica free of charge.
Small tear-out material can go out as blue bag rubbish inside the city's one cubic yard limit, and anything larger is a self-haul load at EcoDrop Utica with a published construction and demolition rate.
Neither the city brochure nor the Authority names exercise equipment, so a treadmill or machine is either the weekly bulky item at the curb or a donation through the Authority's reuse list.
A clean-out in Utica runs on two meters at once: the weekly blue bag rubbish limit and the single bulky item each building may set out, with EcoDrop Utica taking the rest by weight.
The handoff matters
Garbage and recyclables are collected once a week, and the city makes set-out legal only between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the night before the collection day. Putting items out at any other time is against local law and can draw a violation notice, and containers come back off the curb after collection.
City of Utica garbage and recycling collection brochureHousehold rubbish has to be in City of Utica blue bags, sold at grocery and convenience stores around the city, with a weekly cap of ten bags for a single-family home and twenty for a two-or-more-family building or business. Anything that cannot be recycled and is not a trash or bulk item belongs in a blue bag, and recyclables go in the orange or RecycleOne container instead.
City of Utica garbage and recycling collection brochureCity of Utica blue bag vendorsUse 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 Utica.
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.
A mattress is a bulk item, so it goes out with the blue bag garbage between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the night before your collection day, as the single bulky item the city allows each week per building. Anything beyond that one item can be taken to EcoDrop Utica at 824 Sewage Plant Road, which charges its published resident rate per bulky item.Official guidance
Yes, as the bulky item the city allows each week per building. It goes out between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the night before your collection day alongside the blue bag garbage, and a second large piece in the same week has to wait or be taken to EcoDrop Utica, which charges the published resident rate per bulky item.Official guidance
At the curb the first bulky item each week is part of the city service, and a washer, dryer or stove delivered to EcoDrop Utica is taken at no charge. A refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner that still contains refrigerant carries the Authority's published per-item fee, and a load that arrives untarped draws an extra penalty.Official guidance
Either as the bulky item the city collects once a week per building, set out between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the night before your collection day, or at EcoDrop Utica, where electronics are accepted year-round at no charge. Electronic waste can never go in the blue bag or the recycling container because New York State bans it from the garbage.Official guidance
Small amounts go out as blue bag rubbish inside the city's one cubic yard weekly limit, with wood and metal tied into bundles no longer than 4 feet and other pieces in a container under 50 pounds. A larger tear-out is a self-haul load at EcoDrop Utica on Sewage Plant Road, which charges construction and demolition debris by weight from its published minimum load fee upward.Official guidance
Nothing in the city brochure or the Authority's material names exercise equipment, so the practical routes are the single bulky item the city collects each week per building and the reuse outlets the Authority publishes, which include second-hand and sporting goods stores. Take the machine down into pieces first, because only one bulky item is collected per building each week.Official guidance
One cubic yard of rubbish for a single family, two cubic yards for a two-or-more-family building or business, inside a limit of ten or twenty City of Utica blue bags a week. On top of that the city collects one bulky item per building and two car tires, and it never collects 55-gallon drums, pianos, safes, propane tanks or oil tanks at the curb.Official guidance
Call 315-731-0238 for the night of collection, then set the bags, the recycling container and the one bulky item out between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. the night before. Garbage and recyclables run once a week, containers come back off the curb afterwards, and green waste questions go to the city public works department on 315-738-1341.Official guidance
EcoDrop Utica at 824 Sewage Plant Road is open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. It takes recyclables, electronics and household hazardous waste at no charge, along with appliances, bulky items, tires, scrap metal, green waste and construction debris on the Authority's published resident fee schedule, with an extra penalty on an untarped load.Official guidance
The Authority publishes a reuse list of organisations across Oneida and Herkimer Counties that take donated clothing, books, electronics, furniture, household items and crafting supplies, and it notes that some of them will arrange to pick donations up. Each outlet sets its own rules, so call before loading, and the nearest Utica entries are on Washington Street and Court Street.Official guidance
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