*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $100. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up quietly until it is genuinely in your way. Anywhere around the Junction, you can book a pickup, see your price upfront, and skip the heavy lifting.
You start by looking up who takes what, then call around. One hauler wants to see it first, another never calls back, and the district drop-off means loading it yourself. Two weekends later, it still hasn't moved.
There is no municipal bulk route to call here. Household trash runs through a private subscription hauler, so a large item usually means scheduling an extra pickup with limits on what qualifies, or driving it to a district drop-off center and unloading it yourself.
Most hauling companies quote by how much space your load takes up in the truck, which you cannot judge from your basement. So you wait on an in-person estimate, then hear the real number once everything is already loaded. Booking becomes a guess.
Reuse shops around Chittenden County have to be choosy, and they should be. Stains, a cracked frame, a mattress, or anything they cannot resell gets turned away at the door, and most will not send anyone up a staircase after it.
A roll-off ties up your driveway for days, needs a delivery window and a pull date, and can require permission if it sits along the street. You still load every piece yourself, and one room's worth of junk 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.
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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 Essex Junction's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sectional wedged in a narrow basement stairwell or a treadmill stuck behind a detached garage door is your Loaders' problem, not yours. They are background-checked and rated by real locals in Essex Junction after each job.
If the item is already at the street or sitting in a driveway, curbside works and costs less effort on your end. Choose full service when the couch is still in a finished basement, a second-floor rental unit, or a condo with shared entry stairs, 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 $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.
Around here, half the year your driveway is a snowbank and the other half you are stuck in a line of pickup trucks on a Saturday morning with a box spring roped to the roof. Skip the whole errand: you book, your Loaders carry it out, and they genuinely like showing up for this city.
Most of what comes out of an Essex Junction basement, condo, or garage still has some life left in it, and Vermont keeps several materials out of the trash entirely. Condition decides where each piece ends up.
Furniture, working appliances, and household goods that are clean and structurally sound may go to a local reuse or charity option, but only when one is open and accepting that category.
Damaged furniture, broken exercise equipment, and worn mattresses still hold metal, wood, and foam. Your Loader sets those aside for a local recycling option when one is accepting that material.
When a sectional has soaked through in a flooded basement or a debris pile is past salvaging, your Loader brings it to a permitted transfer station or landfill that accepts it.
Vermont's landfill bans carry real enforcement weight, and a mixed load can be turned away at the gate. Here is what applies in Essex Junction and Chittenden County.
Curbside trash here is a private subscription service rather than a municipal program, so oversized furniture and appliances are never collected on a routine route. Bulky items require either a separately scheduled hauler pickup or a trip to a district drop-off center.
Vermont's Universal Recycling Law made mandated recyclables illegal to landfill in 2015 and food scraps illegal in 2020, and the statute sets no minimum quantity. Knowingly placing banned material in the trash is a violation regardless of how small the amount.
Since 2016, grass, leaves, brush, and untreated unpainted wood cannot be landfilled anywhere in Vermont. They can be composted at home, taken to a stump dump or composting site, or brought to the Essex drop-off center, where yard waste is charged by the cubic yard.
Vermont E-Cycles makes recycling computers, monitors, televisions, printers, and peripherals free for households, charities, schools, and small businesses with ten or fewer employees. Manufacturers fund the program, so there is no cost reason to risk landfilling a banned device.
Refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, and air conditioners hold refrigerants that federal rules require a certified technician to capture before disposal or recycling. That is why these units are handled separately from ordinary trash and typically carry a handling fee at the receiving facility.
District drop-off centers are built for household-scale loads, so demolition and construction debris from a larger project has to go to a permitted transfer station that accepts it and charges a tip fee. Clean untreated wood can be diverted to a wood-fuel facility instead.
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(678) 884-4738Not for free, since Essex Junction has no municipal bulk collection. Private haulers like Casella will take bulky items curbside if you schedule ahead, and residents can haul loads to the CSWD Essex Drop-Off Center at 218 Colchester Road. Leaving items out with no arrangement counts as illegal dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Essex Junction starts at $100, and choosing curbside pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed before booking. Hauling it yourself to the CSWD Essex drop-off runs a $1 entry fee plus $3 to $15 per trash bag by size.
Same-day and next-day slots are often open across Essex Junction and Chittenden County when you book early in the day. Enter your zip code during online booking to see live availability for your address, since openings vary by day and by location.
Yes. Vermont's Universal Recycling Law, Act 148, bans recyclables, leaf and yard debris, and food scraps from the trash and landfill statewide. Certain hazardous items are banned too and go to the CSWD Environmental Depot instead. Loaders sort these out and route them to the right facility rather than the landfill.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and appliances in good shape may go to reuse nonprofits like ReSOURCE, which runs stores in Burlington and Williston, or to Habitat ReStore. Recyclables route to a CSWD facility, and only what can't be reused or recycled heads to disposal.
For curbside pickups, no. Just leave items somewhere easy to reach, like the driveway or by the garage, and add access notes at booking. For in-home removal, someone should be present or provide entry instructions. Your Loader typically calls ahead before arriving.
Mostly the pricing model and booking flow. Casella bulk pickup and 1-800-GOT-JUNK often quote by truckload or after an in-person look, so your price firms up later. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone arrives. ReSOURCE offers donation pickup too, though it charges a fee and usually schedules about two weeks out.
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