*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up, it has a way of taking over your week. In Evanston, LoadUp makes the fix simple: book a quick pickup, see your price upfront, and get it gone.
You search for options, call the city, request a few hauler quotes, and wait. Some never call back. Others want to visit first. Meanwhile the old furniture stays in the basement for another month.
City bulk pickup programs can be a good deal for one or two items set out properly. They usually need a request ahead of time, don't accept every item, and expect you to get everything to the pickup spot yourself, which is hard from a third-floor walk-up.
Many haulers want to see the job in person before they'll give you a number, then charge by how much of the truck you fill. You don't know the real cost until they're standing in your driveway and you've already cleared the afternoon.
Donation centers want items they can resell, so stained upholstery, worn mattresses, and broken appliances often get turned away. You still have to load and drive everything there yourself, and whatever they refuse comes back home with you.
A dumpster makes sense for a gut renovation, not for a cleared-out spare room. It needs a delivery window and a place to park it, and on narrow Evanston blocks it can take up shared space your neighbors use for days.
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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.
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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 Evanston 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 Evanston's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader carries items up narrow basement stairs in older homes and out of cramped garages, and every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Evanston after each job.
If the old sofa or broken grill is already at the curb, in the driveway, or beside the garage, curbside (outdoor) pickup keeps things simple. For a basement full of boxes in an older house or a dresser on an upper floor of a condo building, choose full-service so your Loaders carry everything 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.
Nobody is wedging a box spring onto the Purple Line, and a borrowed pickup rarely finds an easy parking spot on a busy block. That's where your Loader comes in, lifting, carrying, and loading so you can skip the circling. Your Loaders genuinely enjoy showing up for Evanston neighbors, and it shows.
Bulky items can't all go the same place, and Evanston's mix of older houses, apartments, and rental turnovers means a wide range of conditions. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, favoring donation or recycling when local options allow.
Furniture, appliances, and household goods in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader handles the lifting and loading, so usable items can find a second home.
Items that are worn or damaged but not donatable, like broken electronics, metal frames, or old appliances, may be recycled where available, depending on condition and what Evanston-area and Cook County facilities accept.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or contaminated bulky items, such as ruined mattresses or water-damaged furniture from Evanston basements, are taken by your Loader for responsible disposal at an appropriate local facility.
Banned materials left out in Evanston, Cook County, go uncollected, and City crews will not return for late set-outs. These are the local rules that shape a cleanout here.
Appliances and tires are banned from the landfill, so Evanston schedules them through 311 separately from special pickups. They are removed free of charge and do not count toward a household's annual cubic-yard limit for bulk waste.
Evanston does not allow construction materials in its City-branded refuse carts, and City special pickups will not collect construction material either. Leftover renovation debris has to go somewhere outside the residential waste program.
In April 2026 a three-year City pilot replaced the spring and fall bulk trash days. Single-family homes and small multiunit buildings can book pickups of up to 3 cubic yards each, about a couch or twin mattress, with a limit of 12 cubic yards per unit each year.
Leaves raked or blown into the street can block sewers and cause flooding, so the City bans it and allows only electric leaf blowers. Food and yard waste collection now runs all year and switches to every other week from December through March.
It is illegal in Illinois to throw electronics in the garbage, and Evanston lists electronics as a prohibited item in its refuse carts. The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County holds free electronics collections for its member communities.
Evanston's special pickups will not take hazardous materials, including batteries, gas, oil, asbestos, pesticides, medical wastes and paint. Leftover house paint can go to a PaintCare drop-off site at no charge instead.
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(678) 884-4738Not without a scheduled pickup. Evanston's special bulk pilot lets residential accounts book extra pickups through the 311 Center. Each pickup is capped at 3 cubic yards, roughly a couch, with a 12 cubic yard annual limit per unit. Items left out unscheduled risk being treated as dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Evanston starts at $80, with $5 off for curbside or driveway pickup. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each additional item is a flat add-on, with the exact total confirmed before booking. Truckload haulers often quote $150 to $750.
Same-day pickup is often available in Evanston when you book early enough, and next-day slots are common. Availability depends on your address and the schedule that day, so enter your zip during booking to see live options. For curbside pickups you generally don't need to be home.
No for hazardous waste. Evanston does not collect household hazardous materials like paint or chemicals, and points residents to IEPA collection sites around Chicagoland. Bulk pickup is also limited to 3 cubic yards per visit, so larger cleanouts usually need a private hauler or a dumpster.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill by donating them to local charities when options allow, such as Goodwill locations nearby. Recyclable materials like metal and some electronics go to recyclers depending on acceptance. Whatever can't be donated or recycled is disposed of properly.
You pick your items and zip code online, see the price, and choose a time window. Your Loader typically calls or texts before arriving, then carries the items out and loads them, so you don't lift anything. The total is confirmed before booking, with no in-person estimate required.
Mainly the pricing model. College HUNKS prices by how much truck space your items need, while LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before booking. For a few items that can be simpler, but for a full house cleanout a truckload quote may suit you better.
For a couch-sized load, the city's pilot is cheaper. It's funded by a $1 per unit monthly fee on residential accounts, but you wait for a 311 slot and face the 3 cubic yard limit. A private hauler costs more but offers faster scheduling and removes larger loads.
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