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 St. Helens: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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A mattress does not belong in the curbside cart, so it goes as a self haul to the Columbia County Transfer Station or into a container arranged with the hauler.
Furniture is named on the hauler's container list and is accepted as household waste at the county transfer station.
Metal appliances are free at the county transfer station, a unit holding refrigerant is charged a published per appliance fee, and appliances are refused in the curbside carts.
Computers, monitors, printers and televisions are recycled free in the electronics area at the Columbia County Transfer Station.
Exercise equipment is not named on the published lists, so the route is a self haul charged by weight or a container the hauler arranges.
Tires are charged per tire at the Columbia County Transfer Station, with a lower rate when the rim is off, and they are also taken in a hauler container.
No curbside route exists for construction material, so a project load goes into a hauler container or a self haul to the transfer station.
Bulky items leave through a hauler container or a self hauled load at the county transfer station, because the curbside carts take only normal household trash.
Household trash goes in the grey cart with the green recycling cart and the brown yard debris cart, out by 6 a.m. on the collection day.
Household chemicals go free to the county collection events for county residents, with several events at the transfer station address each year.
The handoff matters
Garbage, recycling and yard debris go out the night before the service day or by 6 a.m. on it, at least three feet from any other cart and six feet from vehicles. Collection runs Monday through Friday and stops only for New Year's Day and Christmas.
Residential collection days, container sizes, community service table, cart rules and refused itemsHauler office address, phone numbers, office hours and pickup holidaysThe grey cart takes food and normal household trash, and it refuses antifreeze or motor oil, appliances, asbestos, ashes, car batteries, chemicals, dead animals, dirt or rocks, liquid paint, medical sharps, medical waste, recycling, tires and yard waste. Anything on that list goes to the county transfer station or into a hauler container instead.
Residential collection days, container sizes, community service table, cart rules and refused itemsAt the Columbia County Transfer Station, commingled recyclables, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, scrap metal, metal appliances, electronics, motor oil, cooking oil, architectural paint and medical sharps in certified containers are free, so they go to their designated areas rather than onto the waste scale.
Columbia County Transfer Station location, hours, free recycling items and charged itemsAn unsecured load carries a published 19 dollar charge at the transfer station scale, and loads are charged by weight with a minimum for the first 320 pounds of household waste. Cover or tie down the load before leaving home.
Columbia County Transfer Station rate sheet effective July 1, 2025Use 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 St. Helens.
The Columbia County Transfer Station charges a 27.48 dollar minimum for a load up to 320 pounds and 167.19 dollars a ton above that, with a senior rate of 16.91 dollars at the same minimum. Yard debris uses its own minimum and per ton rate, and an unsecured load adds a published charge.Official guidance
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.
It does not go in the cart, because the residential cart list accepts only food and normal household trash. Take the mattress to the Columbia County Transfer Station at 1601 Railroad Avenue, open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and charged by weight with a minimum for the first 320 pounds, or ask Hudson Garbage at 503-397-1534 about a container.Official guidance
Yes. Furniture is on the list of items accepted in a Hudson roll off or short term container, and a household can also take a couch to the Columbia County Transfer Station as household waste. Containers are quoted at 503-397-1534 and self haul loads are charged by weight.Official guidance
A refrigerant appliance such as a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner is charged 26.30 dollars each at the Columbia County Transfer Station, and the same page shows metal appliances such as a dishwasher, water heater, dryer, washer or stove accepted free of charge. A Hudson container refuses an appliance with Freon.Official guidance
To the electronics recycling area at the Columbia County Transfer Station, 1601 Railroad Avenue, where computers, monitors, printers and televisions are accepted free of charge during the Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours. Hudson containers do not take electronics.Official guidance
Exercise equipment is not on the published cart, container or transfer station lists, so the practical route is a self haul to the Columbia County Transfer Station charged by weight with a 27.48 dollar minimum up to 320 pounds, or a container arranged with Hudson Garbage at 503-397-1534.Official guidance
A passenger car tire is 5.20 dollars off the rim or 10.50 dollars on the rim, a semi or tractor tire is 15.70 or 26.20 dollars, and bicycle, motorcycle and solid core tires are charged at the garbage rate, per the rate sheet effective July 1, 2025. Hudson containers also take tires at a per tire charge.Official guidance
In a container from Hudson Garbage or as a self haul to the Columbia County Transfer Station, which collects all asbestos free construction debris as solid waste at the published self haul rates. The roll off containers are listed for the Clatskanie, Goble, Prescott and Rainier service areas, while the short term 2 yard containers include St. Helens, so confirm the container class at 503-397-1534.Official guidance
Short term 2 yard containers are offered in Clatskanie, Columbia City, Deer Island, Rainier, St. Helens and Warren, while the larger roll off containers are listed for the Clatskanie, Goble, Prescott and Rainier service areas. Hudson quotes the container and the service at 503-397-1534.Official guidance
Garbage carts are grey in 35, 65 and 95 gallon sizes, recycling carts are green in 65 and 95 gallon sizes, and the yard debris cart is brown at 95 gallons, with St. Helens receiving all three services. Carts go out the night before or by 6 a.m., at least three feet from another cart and six feet from vehicles, and the hauler bills monthly.Official guidance
To a free Columbia County household hazardous waste collection event, which are open to county residents only. The 2026 St. Helens events run at 1601 Railroad Avenue on Feb. 28, June 6, Aug. 22 and Oct. 24 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a limit of 25 gallons or 200 pounds per visit. Architectural paint in containers of five gallons or less and used motor oil are also free at the transfer station on ordinary days.Official guidance
Hudson Garbage and Recycling, which the city names on its New Resident Information page at 503-397-1534, and which describes itself as the residential garbage and recycling service for Columbia County communities including St. Helens. The company office is at 2115 Gable Road in St. Helens and answers toll free at 800-422-9998.Official guidance
Collection runs Monday through Friday, with the carts out the night before or by 6 a.m., three feet from other carts and six feet from vehicles. Household trash goes in the grey cart, recycling in the green cart and yard debris in the brown cart, and the hauler bills monthly with payment due by the fifteenth.Official guidance
The cart service is a monthly subscription billed by Hudson Garbage, which does not publish the rate on the page read here, so confirm the monthly charge at 503-397-1534. A self hauled load at the county transfer station pays a 27.48 dollar minimum up to 320 pounds and 167.19 dollars a ton above that, with free drop-off areas for recycling, electronics, metal appliances, motor oil, cooking oil, paint and sharps.Official guidance
At the Columbia County Transfer Station on Railroad Avenue: household waste and asbestos free construction debris by weight, recycling, glass, cardboard, scrap metal, metal appliances, electronics, motor oil, cooking oil, architectural paint and medical sharps free, and refrigerant appliances, tires, antifreeze, car batteries and fluorescent tubes for a published fee. Utilities and the city's water, sewer and storm water services are separate and answered at 503-397-6272.Official guidance
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