*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up fast, and hauling it off is the last thing you want to do. In the Hub City, you can book a quick pickup and see your price upfront.
You check the city website, call a couple of haulers, and wait on quotes that may never come back. Meanwhile the pile in the garage or cellar stays put, and another weekend slips by.
Municipal pickup schedules can help, but they come with limits on what qualifies, how it has to be set out, and when it gets collected. If your junk is stuck in a basement or barn, you still have to haul it to the curb yourself.
Many haulers want to see the job in person before they'll give you a number, then price by the fraction of a truckload. You often don't know the real cost until the truck is already in your driveway.
Thrift stores and charities have to be choosy, and many turn away worn, stained, or broken pieces. Even when something qualifies, you usually have to load it and drive it over yourself, and whatever they turn down stays with you.
A roll-off makes sense for a gut renovation, not a single room or a garage corner. You're juggling delivery and pickup dates, possible permits, and a big bin taking up the driveway on a tight New Auburn street, and you still do all the lifting.
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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.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Auburn 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 Auburn's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders bring a dresser up steep, narrow cellar stairs or clear a crowded barn loft by hand. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Auburn after each job.
If the old recliner or broken snowblower is already sitting at the end of your driveway, curbside pickup keeps things simple. For anything still down in an older home's cellar, up a staircase, or tucked in a detached garage or shed on a larger lot, choose full-service and your Loaders will carry it out for you.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $80 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $75 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before 2 PM | from $90 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $80 |
| 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.
Auburn's older homes often come with steep cellar stairs, detached garages, and a barn or shed that has quietly collected decades of stuff. Hauling it yourself means a borrowed truck and a sore back. Your Loaders carry it up and out, and they genuinely like showing up for the practical, hardworking people of this city.
Bulky items rarely belong in one place once they leave a property, and that is true across Auburn. Your Loader sorts what is reusable from what is not, so more can stay out of landfills when local options allow.
Furniture and household goods in good, clean condition may be donated where available. Your Loader can set them aside, but if you need a donation receipt, arrange that donation yourself.
Items that are worn or damaged but not donatable, like metal frames or scrap appliances, may be recycled when possible. Your Loader separates materials, and local options decide what can be reclaimed.
Heavily damaged or contaminated bulky items, such as soaked carpet or broken-down sofas from an Auburn basement, are carried out by your Loader and taken for responsible disposal.
Bringing the wrong item to the wrong site can mean a refused load and a wasted trip, so here is what applies in Auburn, Androscoggin County.
Auburn replaced curbside bulky collection with year-round drop-off at Maine Waste to Energy, and as of mid-2025 the facility assesses fees on furniture, mattresses and box springs, rugs, and tires. Household trash can still go there free, though proof of residency may be required.
Auburn partnered with Apparel Impact on a free textile drop-off bin beside the recycling bins near Auburn Public Works. Clothing, outerwear, footwear, linens, purses/bags, and accessories qualify even if unwearable, but they must be dry with no odor and no mold.
Maine Waste to Energy refuses paints, oils, cleaners, gasoline, and liquids of any type. Auburn residents instead use AVCOG's household hazardous waste drop-off on the third Saturday of each month, offered only from May through October, so winter cleanout leftovers must wait for spring.
Toilets, windows, doors, sheetrock, and shingles from home remodeling are not accepted curbside and go to Maine Waste to Energy instead. Auburn's disposal guide asks residents to load like materials together so wood is not buried under metal at the drop point.
With no local brush pile, Auburn directs brush, leaves, and logs to Oldcastle/Jolly Gardener in Poland, free for residents, with stumps excluded. The city also asks residents to keep yard waste away from storm drains and culverts so rain and snowmelt drain freely.
The Public Works Garage takes monitors, televisions, speakers, CPUs and laptops, DVDs and VCRs from residents free on weekdays. Everyone must check in at the Public Works office first, commercial materials are refused, and the city urges removing sensitive data from hard drives.
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(678) 884-4738Not for bulky items. Auburn no longer runs a spring curbside bulky pickup, and regular weekly trash service doesn't cover large junk. Items dumped at the curb or on the roadside can be treated as illegal dumping, so use a drop-off or a hauler.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Auburn starts at $80 for the first item, and curbside pickup takes $5 off. Each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Drop-off at the city's disposal site costs 10 cents per pound.
No. The free program at Maine Waste to Energy on Goldthwaite Road ended in June 2025. Residents now pay 10 cents per pound, or $200 per ton, and need proof of residency. That can be cheaper for light loads if you have a truck and time.
Same-day and next-day pickup are often available in Auburn, depending on the schedule in your area. Enter your address at booking to see live openings. For curbside pickups you usually don't need to be home, and for indoor jobs someone should be there or leave access notes.
Hazardous items like paint, solvents, and chemicals are illegal to put out with weekly garbage. Auburn residents can bring them to a household hazardous waste collection event, and electronics like TVs and monitors can go to the Public Works Garage at 296 Gracelawn Road.
Loaders aim to donate usable items and recycle what they can, depending on what local charities and recyclers accept. Items that can't be donated or recycled go to an appropriate disposal facility. Donation and recycling aren't guaranteed for every item.
You pick your items and a time window online, see the full price before you confirm, and get a text when your Loader is on the way. The Loader carries the items out and loads them, so you don't have to move anything heavy yourself.
The main difference is the pricing model. Truck-based haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King typically price by how much space your load fills, often confirmed on site. LoadUp prices per item online, so you see the total before anyone arrives.
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