*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it owns the room. Book a pickup in EJ, see your price before you confirm, and skip the trip down M-66 entirely.
You call the city, read a county page that answers half the question, leave messages with two haulers and hear back from one. Then the weather turns, the weekend disappears, and the pile has not moved.
If your timing happens to line up with a municipal cleanup window, good. Most people's does not, and the list of what gets left at the curb is longer than expected: appliances with refrigerant, remodel debris, tires. You still carry it all out yourself.
Call a truck based outfit and the first step is a visit, which in this part of Charlevoix County can mean waiting days for a window that may not hold. Pricing comes by the fraction of a truckload, decided in your driveway after everything is already loaded.
Resale and donation outlets take what they can sell, which means clean, current, and free of pet hair, water damage, or a broken frame. Load it up and drive it over and you can still be turned away at the door, hauling it home again.
Dumpsters come with a delivery date, a pull date, and permission questions if the container has to sit anywhere near the street. Add a frost softened driveway in spring and you have a lot of steel parked in view of the neighbors for one room's worth of junk.
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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 East Jordan's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A chest freezer wedged at the bottom of a full basement stairwell takes planning. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in East Jordan after each job.
If the treadmill or busted dresser is already sitting in the driveway or at the curb, curbside keeps things simple. Choose full service when the item is still inside a basement, a pole barn, or an upstairs bedroom in an older home, and your Loaders will carry it out from where it sits.
| 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.
Half the driveways here already have a truck and a trailer sitting in them, which is why hauling your own gets old fast: the nearest county drop is a real drive, hours shift with the season, and one chest freezer eats a Saturday. Your Loaders do the carrying, and they like showing up for people here.
Clearing a pole barn in East Jordan means mixed loads: some pieces still have life, some do not. Your Loaders sort each item by condition on site, so usable goods and scrap take different paths when local options allow.
Furniture, tools, and household goods that are clean and structurally sound may be offered to area donation outlets when options allow. You can also arrange a drop-off yourself before booking.
A chest freezer with a failed compressor still holds recoverable metal, and refrigerant units require certified handling. Where available, items like these are routed for material recovery rather than straight into a trash load.
Water-damaged mattresses, moldy carpet, and shingle debris have few outlets in Charlevoix County, so your Loaders take them to a licensed transfer station or landfill for proper disposal.
Dumping the wrong load can mean a civil infraction or a rejected drop-off, so know what East Jordan and Charlevoix County actually allow.
East Jordan collects leaves and brush during announced spring and fall windows, and only for yard waste generated inside the city. Leaves and grass must be in biodegradable bags, while loose loads go to the city recycling site instead.
Shrubs and tree branches must be cut to six feet or shorter, stay under eight inches in diameter, and be neatly stacked facing one direction. Stumps, roots, stones and dirt are left behind entirely.
State law keeps leaves, grass, garden debris and small trimmings out of municipal solid waste landfills to preserve landfill capacity and push the material toward composting. Only diseased, infested or invasive plant material gets an exception.
Lumber, broken concrete, metal, glass and other building materials are excluded from East Jordan's leaf and brush collection. Michigan also prohibits open burning of construction and demolition waste, so remodel debris has to reach a licensed disposal facility.
Federal Clean Air Act rules make venting refrigerant illegal, so a certified technician has to recover the Freon from refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers and air conditioners before those units are scrapped or landfilled. Scrap yards routinely ask for proof.
Charlevoix County runs household hazardous waste drop-off events twice a year, typically spring and fall, accepting electronics, televisions, batteries, paint, fluorescent bulbs and automotive fluids. The county has no curbside recycling, so drop-off sites carry the rest.
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(678) 884-4738East Jordan has no municipal curbside bulk pickup. Household trash runs through subscription haulers like Republic Services and Jordan Waste, and bulky junk is not collected without an arrangement. For self-haul, residents use area transfer stations or the city compost drop-off at 700 Nichols Street for yard waste.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in East Jordan starts at $80 for one bulky item, with $5 off for curbside or driveway pickup. The first item covers the base pickup fee, then each added piece is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed before booking. Self-hauling furniture to the Elmira transfer station runs about $34 per cubic yard plus a fuel surcharge.
Yes, LoadUp offers same-day junk removal in East Jordan when you book before noon, and next-day slots are usually open across Charlevoix County. Enter your zip code during booking to see live availability for your address before you lock in a time.
Charlevoix County has no curbside recycling, but it runs six drop-off sites that accept recycling and household hazardous waste, including locations in Boyne City and Boyne Falls. Items like paint, solvents, and automotive fluids can't go in regular trash or on a LoadUp truck, so those need a county hazardous waste drop-off.
Loaders sort loads and aim to keep usable goods out of the landfill. Items in good shape are routed to local donation and recycling options whenever they're accepted, and only what's left heads to disposal sites like the Cedar Ridge facility on Saunders Road. Outcomes depend on condition and what partners will take.
Not for curbside or driveway pickups. Just leave the junk accessible with notes at booking. For in-home removal, someone should be present or provide entry instructions ahead of time. Your Loader typically calls about 30 minutes before arrival so you know when the truck is close.
Mostly the pricing model and booking flow. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and most local haulers price by truckload after an in-person look, so your cost isn't final until the crew is at your door. LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before anyone arrives, which is often cheaper for single or two-item jobs.
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