*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up quietly until dealing with it becomes the chore you keep postponing. Book a pickup in the City of Charm on the River Pearl, see your price upfront, and watch it disappear.
It usually starts with a call to find out who picks up what, then a few hauler quotes. One never answers, another wants to walk the property first. A month on, the junk sits where it sat.
Municipal pickup schedules are built around carts at the curb, not what is stacked in a shed. Bulky pieces generally mean calling ahead and waiting for a date, and you still move the item out yourself. Plenty of addresses outside town are not on a route at all.
Call around and the answer is usually the same: someone has to come look before anyone quotes you. Then the price rides on how much of the truck bed you fill, judged on the spot, and the figure you heard on the phone rarely survives the stairs.
Donation outlets take what they can resell. A dresser that spent two summers in a metal outbuilding usually is not it. Stains, mildew, missing hardware or a frame needing two people to lift, and the answer is no. Most expect delivery, so a no means loading it twice.
A roll-off arrives empty and leaves on the rental company's calendar, not yours. Everything in between is still yours to carry out in August heat. Street placement can mean asking permission first, the box sits in view of the neighbors for days, and one room rarely fills 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.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Columbia 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 Columbia's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A chest freezer wedged into a detached shed or a deep closet in an older house takes real effort. Your Loaders are background checked and rated by real locals in Columbia after each job.
If the load is already sitting at the end of a gravel drive or stacked by the street, curbside works and keeps things simple. When the weight is still inside a back bedroom, up porch steps, or stored out in a pasture outbuilding, full service puts your Loaders on the carrying end instead of 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 noon | 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.
Columbia produced Walter Payton, and folks here will tell you nobody else was built to carry a chest freezer up the back steps alone. Junk around town does not pile up at the curb, it settles into sheds and outbuildings for a decade. Your Loaders handle the lifting, and they like showing up for this town.
What leaves a Columbia garage or outbuilding rarely belongs in one place. Your Loader sorts each load by condition, pointing still-usable pieces toward donation and the rest toward recycling or lawful disposal when local options allow.
Dressers, dining sets, and other household goods still in clean, working shape may go to a donation outlet when one in the area is open and accepting that category. No receipt comes back to you.
Items too worn to pass along, like a dented washer or a bent metal bed frame, are often separated for scrap or material recovery where such outlets exist and are accepting that day.
When a piece is water-damaged, mildewed, or broken past use, your Loader takes it to a permitted landfill or transfer station serving the Columbia area, following whatever handling rules that site requires.
Mississippi treats unauthorized dumping as a crime rather than a paperwork slip, so knowing how Columbia and Marion County handle each material matters before anything leaves your driveway.
Marion County Solid Waste oversees residential and commercial collection for areas outside the municipalities, while collection inside Columbia city limits runs through the city. Either way, routine routes are built around the cart, so sofas, mattresses and cleanout piles sit outside normal service.
State law fines littering on roads or private property between fifty and two hundred fifty dollars, with minimums and maximums doubled on a second conviction. Unauthorized solid waste dumping escalates further, reaching a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
Mississippi sorts disposal sites by class. Class I rubbish sites accept mixed building and structural debris such as wood, brick, concrete, roofing, siding and carpet, while they cannot take household garbage or household chemicals mixed into the load.
Vegetative debris like limbs and brush can go to Class II rubbish sites, which accept only yard waste and inert material such as concrete and brick. Burning instead is limited by state air rules, and tires may never be burned.
Federal Clean Air Act rules require a certified technician to recover refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners and dehumidifiers before disposal. Venting it is illegal, which is why scrap yards and landfills expect units already evacuated.
Televisions, monitors and computers are not banned from Mississippi landfills, but older screens carry lead and lithium batteries can ignite inside a packer truck. State environmental officials encourage routing electronics to recycling collection events or retailer take-back programs instead.
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(678) 884-4738Only with a scheduled bulk pickup. Columbia residents arrange large item collection through their trash provider, and anything set out without an appointment can count as illegal dumping and draw a fine. Set junk out only on your scheduled day to stay clear of a citation.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Columbia starts at $80 for a single bulky item, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the pickup fee, and each additional piece is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed before you book. Traditional haulers often run $200 or more for a comparable job.
Yes, same-day pickup is often open in Columbia when you book before noon, and next-day is widely available across Marion County. Enter your Columbia zip code during booking to see live availability for your exact address before you lock anything in.
Those are not allowed in regular junk hauls or curbside trash. Marion County holds household hazardous waste collection events at the transfer station at 1967 Mississippi 586 in Foxworth, open to county residents and accepting paint, tires, and electronics. Ammunition, explosives, and medical waste are never accepted.
Loaders sort items when possible and aim to keep usable goods out of the landfill. Pieces in good shape may go to local charities like Goodwill of South Mississippi or the Salvation Army thrift store on Second Street, depending on acceptance. Since 2014, LoadUp has donated over 70% of items it coordinates when condition allows.
Book online or by phone with upfront pricing, choose a date, and list what needs to go. On pickup day your Loader calls ahead, usually about 30 minutes before arrival, then handles all the lifting and loading. For curbside pickups you do not need to be home, just leave access notes at booking.
Mostly the pricing model and booking flow. 1-800-GOT-JUNK prices by truck volume and confirms the cost in person once the truck is in your driveway, averaging around $240. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up, which is usually cheaper for one or two item jobs.
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