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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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.
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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.
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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 Des Moines: start with the item’s collection rules, then choose the arrangement that fits.
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Large pieces that do not fit or belong in a cart are collected from the curb by appointment. The hauler's Des Moines list names sofas and chairs, mattresses and box springs, refrigerators and freezers, and washing machines, and each scheduled piece carries the same per item charge.
Once each calendar year a Des Moines residential customer can book a free curbside clean-up of extra garbage plus two non-appliance bulky items such as couches or large chairs. Larger pieces are scheduled at the per item charge instead.
A mattress or box spring is named on the hauler's bulky item list and collected from the curb by appointment. Self hauling to the county transfer station is the cheaper published route because the station recycles the unit rather than landfilling it.
Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, washers and other appliances are named bulky items for curbside collection, and the county transfer stations recycle appliances rather than take them as garbage.
Televisions, computers, monitors, phones and tablets are refused at the curb and at the county garbage facilities. They are recycled free through the state electronics programme, and small units can ride with the curbside special item collection instead.
Remodel, demolition and land clearing material moves in a debris box from the hauler or goes to a county transfer station as a weighed load. The county route has firm limits on the vehicle, the length of the material and the size of the pieces.
Tires never go in a cart. The county transfer stations take a small number of passenger tires from a household, either in the tire bins at the three stations that have them or as a weighed load elsewhere.
Exercise equipment is named on no Des Moines list, so a treadmill or weight machine is confirmed with the hauler before it goes out, and a heavy machine runs into the county weight threshold if it is self hauled.
The hauler runs a curbside special item collection for the awkward small things that cannot go inside a cart. Batteries, motor and cooking oil, styrofoam, textiles, small appliances and electronics, and fluorescent tubes and bulbs go out beside the recycling cart by request.
The handoff matters
Food scraps and yard debris go in the green cart, clean paper and cardboard, plastic containers, glass and metal go in the blue cart, and what is left goes in the garbage cart. Recycling collection is included with the garbage service at no additional charge, and recycling that will not fit goes beside the cart in a box no larger than 2 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet. The hauler publishes a service day and recycling calendar for the address, and the city's recycling coordinator answers on 206-870-6595.
Hauler page for the three carts with the food scraps and yard debris cart, the recycling cart and overflow rule, the garbage cart, and the residential and commercial monthly rate tablesKing County hauler lookup for the city of Des Moines with Recology as the contracted hauler and phone number, the Bow Lake transfer station address with both sets of hours, and the city recycling coordinator contactA sofa, mattress, appliance or other large piece is a scheduled collection, not a curbside free for all: call the hauler on 206-762-4900, agree a date, and put the piece at the curb by 7 a.m. that day. Only previously scheduled items are collected. Once a calendar year the same account can book a free clean-up of up to one cubic yard of extra garbage plus two non-appliance bulky items, with each bag or piece smaller than 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet or lighter than 65 pounds.
Hauler bulky item page with the example items, the scheduled curbside collection, the 7 a.m. set-out and the per item rates, plus the once a year free curbside clean-up and its size and weight capsBatteries, motor and cooking oil, styrofoam, textiles, small appliances and electronics, and fluorescent tubes and bulbs go out through the hauler's curbside special item collection on the recycling cart day, requested by the bill payer. Televisions, computers and cell phones are refused in the garbage and at the county garbage facilities and are recycled free through the state electronics programme. Tires, paint, solvents and other hazardous products stay out of every cart and go to a county transfer station or a household hazardous waste collection instead.
Hauler special item recycling page with the curbside list for batteries, oils, styrofoam, textiles, small appliances and electronics and fluorescent tubes, the set-out rules and the limitsCounty disposal restrictions page with the refusals for televisions, computers, cell phones, appliances, batteries, hazardous waste and clean wood in the garbage, the tire bin limits, the mattress daily cap and the bulky and dense item thresholdsCounty electronics recycling page with the free E-Cycle Washington collection for computers, laptops, monitors and televisions and the Take it Back Network list for everything elseCounty household hazardous waste disposal page with the free no appointment service, the four collection sites with addresses and hours, the closed Auburn site and the home collection programUse 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 Des Moines.
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.
Call Recology on 206-762-4900 to schedule the collection, then put the item at the curb by 7 a.m. on the scheduled date. Sofas, chairs, mattresses, box springs, refrigerators, freezers and washing machines are all named on the hauler's bulky item list, each scheduled piece is charged the same per item rate, and only items that were scheduled in advance are collected.Official guidance
One free curbside clean-up per calendar year for a residential customer, covering up to one cubic yard of extra garbage plus two non-appliance bulky items such as couches or large chairs. Each bag or piece has to be smaller than 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet or lighter than 65 pounds, appliances are not part of the allowance, and anything larger is scheduled as a paid bulky item collection instead.Official guidance
A mattress or box spring is named on the hauler's bulky item list, so it can be scheduled for a curbside collection at the per item rate and set out by 7 a.m. on the booked date. Self hauling to the Bow Lake transfer station in Tukwila is the cheaper published route, where the recycling area takes mattresses, box springs and futons per item, a wet unit is refused, and more than six pieces in a day needs waste clearance approval first.Official guidance
Schedule a bulky item collection with Recology on 206-762-4900 and put the unit at the curb by 7 a.m. on the booked date, or haul it to a county transfer station with appliance recycling, such as Bow Lake in Tukwila. Empty and defrost it, and expect a per unit charge at the county scale for anything holding a refrigerant. Appliances are never taken as ordinary garbage.Official guidance
They are refused in the garbage and at the county garbage facilities, and they are recycled free at an authorised E-Cycle Washington collection site, which covers computers, laptops, monitors and televisions. A small unit, no bigger than 2 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet and under 60 pounds, can also go out with the hauler's curbside special item recycling on the recycling cart day. Wipe the device first and remove the batteries for separate handling.Official guidance
A project load goes into a debris box from the hauler, ordered on 206-762-4900, with a maximum load weight of 14,000 pounds and enough clear space for a 34 foot truck at the site. A household load can also go to a county transfer station, but not in a vehicle with a mechanised dump bed, nothing longer than 8 feet, no piece larger than 2 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet or heavier than 200 pounds, and clean wood, cardboard, yard waste and scrap metal have to be separated for recycling.Official guidance
To a county transfer station. Bow Lake in Tukwila, Factoria and Shoreline have tire recycling bins limited to four tires per customer, and residential customers can dispose of four or fewer passenger car tires per vehicle at the other stations as a weighed load. Large truck tires are not accepted and tires from a business are refused entirely. The county answers on 206-477-4466.Official guidance
Exercise equipment is not named on the hauler's bulky item list, so call Recology on 206-762-4900 first and confirm the machine before the collection date. If it is accepted it goes out by 7 a.m. on the scheduled day at the per item charge. A self hauled machine has to clear the county threshold, because a piece bigger than 2 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet and heavier than 200 pounds needs waste clearance approval.Official guidance
Both ride the hauler's curbside special item collection. Request it, then set the material on top of or beside the blue recycling cart on collection day. Batteries go in sealed bags with the ends taped in clear packing tape and rechargeable cells kept separate, while motor vehicle batteries are not accepted at all. Motor oil and cooking oil go in separate leak free clear jugs with screw top lids labeled with your name and address, up to 3 gallons of each per collection.Official guidance
A scheduled curbside bulky item collection is charged per piece, whether the piece is a sofa, a chair, a mattress, a box spring, a refrigerator, a freezer or another appliance. A self hauled mattress or appliance is usually cheaper because the county transfer station recycles them at its own item rates and weighs a mixed garbage load instead. One free curbside clean-up a year covers extra garbage and two smaller bulky pieces, and Dropcurb prices a booking separately with the total shown before payment.Official guidance
Recology King County holds the city contract for residential and commercial curbside collection and answers on 206-762-4900. The City of Des Moines runs the programme through its recycling coordinator on 206-870-6595. Households set out a green cart for food scraps and yard debris, a blue cart for recycling and a garbage cart, and recycling collection is included with the garbage service at no additional charge.Official guidance
Yes. Bow Lake Recycling & Transfer Station is at 18800 Orillia Rd S in Tukwila, with the station building open around the clock from Monday to Thursday and the recycling and yard waste area open on its own earlier schedule. Garbage is weighed with a minimum charge for small loads, mattresses and appliances are recycled at their own per item rates, up to four passenger tires go in the tire bins, and separated recyclables, clean wood and yard waste are taken at no charge. Secure the load, because an unsecured one pays an extra charge.Official guidance
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