*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $100. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up faster than anyone gets around to dealing with it. Book a pickup online here in Vermont's first capital, see your price upfront, and have it hauled off.
You start by asking around, checking drop-off hours, leaving messages for a few haulers. One wants to come look first, two never call back, the rest are booked out. Weeks pass and the pile has not moved.
Arlington does not run a bulk route you can call in and request. What you have instead is a drop-off with posted hours worth confirming before you go, and everything you bring has to be lifted into your vehicle and back out again by you.
Expect an in-person look before anyone commits to a price, then a figure tied to how much of the truck your load takes up. Fewer companies drive this far out, which stretches the wait, and you learn the cost last.
Thrift shops and reuse programs have standards, and they should. Stained upholstery, pressed board furniture, and anything with a broken frame gets turned away at the door. Most also expect you to deliver it, which puts you back where you started.
A dumpster ties up your driveway for days and needs a spot solid enough to hold it, which is a real question on gravel or in mud season. Set it near the road and permission may be required. You still load it.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
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No waiting on callbacksLocal Loaders arrive at your location, haul away the junk, and dispose of it responsibly when options allow.
No in-person charges
Most companies charge by truck space, and the price often changes on arrival. LoadUp charges by item, based on exactly what you're removing.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Arlington residents typically pay, so you know what's fair before you book.
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 Arlington's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A box spring coming down a narrow farmhouse staircase and through a low doorway takes practice. Your Loaders are background checked and rated by real locals in Arlington after each job.
Curbside makes sense when the load is already staged outside at the end of the driveway and nothing has to come out of the house. Full service is the better call when a chest freezer has to come up from a cellar or out of an outbuilding, or when a long unpaved drive makes staging it yourself impractical.
| 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.
Just about everybody here owns a pickup, and it still will not fit a hot tub, an upright freezer, or forty years of barn loft. Add mud season on a dirt road and the math gets worse. Your Loaders handle the carrying and the timing, and they like working for people who usually handle things themselves.
Most of what leaves an Arlington house still has some life in it, and plenty does not. Your Loaders sort as they load, so condition decides whether an item goes toward reuse, material recovery, or disposal.
Clean, sound items with working parts, a dresser with all its drawers or a patio set, may find a second life through reuse options when your Loader has one available that day.
Something too broken to pass along can still be worth its materials. Scrap metal from a dead treadmill or a washer, for example, goes for recycling where local options allow.
Water damaged, moldy, or collapsed bulky goods have nothing left to salvage. Those end up at a permitted Vermont disposal site, often a transfer station, chosen from the legal options your Loaders have.
Dumping waste outside a certified facility in Vermont can bring fines up to $500 plus roadside cleanup, so Arlington and Bennington County rules deserve attention.
The town does not run a community wide bulky waste collection day. Large items move through the local transfer station, which is open to area residents on limited weekday and Saturday morning hours, or through a private hauler.
Act 148 makes it illegal to landfill blue bin recyclables, leaf and yard debris, clean wood, and food scraps. Every trash drop off site in Vermont must also accept recycling and food scraps, so separating them is straightforward.
Vermont bans most electronics from the landfill, but the manufacturer funded E-Cycles program accepts computers, monitors, printers, computer peripherals, and televisions at no charge from households and small businesses with ten or fewer employees, up to seven items per day.
Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, and dehumidifiers cannot be landfilled with refrigerant still inside. Federal rules require a certified technician to recover it, which is why area transfer stations stage these units separately and charge a per item fee beyond scrap metal.
Renovation and demolition waste is charged by weight at the county transfer station rather than by the bag, and clean wood is landfill banned statewide, so pulling untreated lumber out of mixed debris reduces what hits the scale.
Leaf and yard debris have been banned from Vermont landfills since 2016. Residents may compost them in a backyard pile instead, or bring brush and clippings to the transfer station, where residential loads carry only a modest charge.
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(678) 884-4738Arlington has no town-run curbside bulk pickup, so junk left roadside won't be collected by the town. Residents either subscribe to a private hauler or bring items to the Bennington transfer station at 904 Houghton Lane. A junk removal service hauls everything for you so you skip the trip and the sorting.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Arlington starts at $100, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each extra piece is a flat add-on, with your total confirmed before booking. The Bennington transfer station charges roughly $17 per bulky item, but you haul it there yourself.
Enter your Arlington zip during booking to see the earliest openings, since availability across rural Bennington County shifts day to day. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home if the junk is accessible with notes. For in-home jobs, someone should be present or leave access instructions, and your Loader calls ahead before arriving.
Vermont's Universal Recycling Law bans recyclables, food scraps, and yard waste from the trash statewide, and electronics can't be landfilled under Act 79. Household hazardous waste like paint and chemicals goes to the Bennington transfer station's collection facility, open Mondays May through October by appointment for $5 per car.
Loaders sort items when possible so usable furniture and goods can head to local donation centers and reuse outlets, with electronics and metal routed to recyclers whenever they're accepted. The Bennington County Solid Waste Alliance runs recycling and hazardous waste programs for the area, and Loaders aim to keep whatever they can out of the landfill.
You pick your items online for an upfront price, choose a date, and confirm before anyone is dispatched. On pickup day your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes ahead, confirms the items, and handles all the lifting and loading. You don't need to move anything to the curb unless you want the $5 curbside discount.
It comes down to pricing and booking. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK charge by truckload and quote in person, so your price isn't set until the crew is at your door. LoadUp prices each item online and locks the total before pickup, which helps in rural areas like Arlington where in-person estimates are harder to schedule.
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