*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $100. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it turns into a whole project. Booking a pickup out on the Tongue takes minutes, the price is set before you commit, and the hauling gets handled.
You call the town office, get handed off to the waste district, then start dialing haulers. Two never call back, one wants to see it first. Meanwhile the junk moves to the barn and sits through another season.
There is no curbside bulk pickup out here. The transfer station handles part of the problem, on a few set days, with fees charged at the gate, and some categories, electronics and refrigerant appliances among them, go to other district sites instead.
Most local haulers want to see the pile before they name a number. That means an appointment, a drive out to you, then a price based on how much of the truck you fill, decided in your driveway with the junk already loaded.
A solid dresser might find a taker. A stained sleeper sofa, a sagging mattress, or a tube television will not, and the shops that do accept furniture sit a long drive south with narrow hours. Either way, you are the one carrying it out.
Renting one means a delivery window, a container parked on gravel that softens every spring, and a pickup date set by someone else. You still do the lifting, you pay for space you will not fill, and a single room rarely justifies it.
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Most companies charge by truck space, and the price often changes on arrival. LoadUp charges by item, based on exactly what you're removing.
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Sofas, dressers, bed frames, tables, and more hauled away with ease.
Available in twin, full, queen, king, and California king sizes.
Covers refrigerators, washers, dryers, ovens, dishwashers, water heaters, and more.
Whole-property cleanouts for moves, estates, evictions, and renovations.
TVs, monitors, computers, printers, stereo equipment, and small electronics.
Includes treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, stationary bikes, and home gym systems.
Add a single bulky item like a couch, dresser, or mattress to your booking.
Mixed everyday items including broken goods, old decor, and accumulated clutter.
Bagged trash, loose debris, and general household waste of all kinds.
Covers drywall, lumber, tile, fixtures, and mixed demolition scrap.
Includes branches, brush, grass clippings, leaves, and other organic yard waste.
Desks, chairs, filing cabinets, cubicle panels, and other office items included.
Moving boxes, shipping cartons, and leftover packing cardboard.
First item includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on. *See Alburg's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A camp stairway, a low outbuilding door, a walkout basement with a sloped path to the driveway: your Loaders plan the carry first. They are background checked and rated by real locals in Alburg after each job.
If the old sofa or appliance is already out at the end of a long dirt drive, curbside is the simpler call, since your Loaders just load and go. Full service makes more sense when the weight is still inside a house, a camp, or a barn, and someone has to bring it out through narrow doorways and steps.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $100 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $95 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $110 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $100 |
| Multi-item pickup | Bundle & save | Add-on items in the same pickup for less | from +$15 |
| Item add-on | Optional | Bundle with your junk pickup | from +$15 |
| Full cleanout | Volume discount | Entire room junk removal | Custom |
| Disassembly service | Optional add-on | Large or difficult-to-move items | Custom |
* Starting prices. Final price confirmed by ZIP code and pickup conditions. Volume discounts applied automatically.
Ask anyone here: getting rid of something big means a bridge, a borrowed trailer, and most of a Saturday, and the town spelling on your mail may not match the sign out front. Your Loaders would rather make that drive for you. Folks up this way take care of their own, and your Loaders like being part of it.
Not everything your Loaders carry out of an Alburgh camp or farmhouse is worn out. Junk removal here means sorting by condition, with usable pieces kept in service when local options allow and the rest sent to disposal.
Furniture that is clean, sound, and dry can still have a second life. Your Loader looks for a willing local outlet when one is open and taking that category, with no paperwork attached.
A broken washer or a bent bed frame is mostly metal. Where a facility within range accepts scrap, appliances, or mattresses that day, your Loader will aim for it rather than the landfill line.
Water-damaged sectionals, rotted deck boards, and hot tubs that sat through a few northern Vermont winters have no reuse left. Your Loader takes those to a permitted in-state transfer station or landfill.
Mixing banned materials into a load can turn a simple cleanout into a citation, so know what Alburgh and Grand Isle County actually allow first.
Alburgh has no municipal bulk collection route, so furniture, appliances and construction debris move through the transfer station now operated by the Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District. Residents pay lower per item rates than non residents there.
Act 148, the Universal Recycling Law, made it illegal to landfill mandated recyclables, leaf and yard debris, clean wood and food scraps. Haulers and drop off sites must collect these streams separately, so mixed loads get pulled apart before disposal.
Computers, monitors, televisions, printers and computer peripherals are banned from Vermont trash, but manufacturers fund the E-Cycles program, so households drop them at participating sites at no charge. Game consoles and stereo gear are banned too, though not covered free.
White goods including refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners and dehumidifiers are banned from Vermont landfills. Refrigerant cannot legally be vented to the air, so it must be recovered with special equipment before the metal is recycled, usually for a per item fee.
Vermont air rules allow open burning of natural wood and yard waste from property clearing without a state permit. Garbage, plastic, tires, asphalt materials, pressure treated wood and plywood are never legal to burn, and local fire wardens add seasonal restrictions.
State law makes every Vermonter responsible for their own waste, and leaving it anywhere outside a certified facility draws a ticket. Anything in the pile that identifies you creates a legal presumption that you dumped it, and unpaid tickets carry license consequences.
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(678) 884-4738There is no municipal curbside bulk pickup in Alburg. Residents haul items to the Alburgh Transfer Station at 802-796-6078, run by the Northwest Vermont Solid Waste District, or hire a private hauler. Burning trash is illegal statewide in Vermont, and dumping items roadside can bring fines, so a scheduled pickup or drop-off is the legal route.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Alburg starts at $100, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off the base price. The first item covers the pickup fee for labor and hauling, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed upfront before you book, with no onsite surprises.
Same-day and next-day slots open in many Grand Isle County zip codes, though the rural Lake Champlain island routes around the Alburgh Tongue can fill quickly. Enter your Alburg zip during booking to see live availability for your address. Booking earlier in the day improves your odds of a fast pickup.
Yes. Vermont's Universal Recycling Law bans recyclables, food scraps, leaf and yard debris, and clean wood from the trash, so those cannot just be tossed. Appliances with Freon need special handling, and the Alburgh Transfer Station charges roughly $15 to $20 to take them. Loaders route these items to the correct outlet for you.
Loaders aim to keep usable junk out of the landfill whenever options allow. Items still in good shape are steered toward donation, and metals, electronics, and mandated recyclables go to proper facilities. Vermont sends only about 35% of its waste to be recycled, composted, or reused, so diverting what we can genuinely matters.
Book online or by phone with your item list and Alburg address, then choose a date. Your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes before arriving, handles all the lifting and loading, and you owe nothing beyond the price you locked in. For curbside pickups you do not need to be home if you leave access notes.
The main difference is pricing and booking flow. Haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College Hunks charge by truckload volume and often confirm a final price only after arriving onsite. LoadUp prices per item online, locked before anyone shows up, which helps on rural trips where a truck run out to Alburg is not casual.
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