*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's all you see. Book LoadUp in Athens, see your price upfront, and get a quick pickup that clears it out for good.
You look up the rules, call the city, then the county, and leave messages with a few haulers. One quotes high, two never call back. Weeks go by, and the pile in the garage is still there.
Athens bulk pickup can work well when your items qualify and your address is covered. But programs usually have item limits and exclusions, and you need to request a pickup. Your junk still has to reach the curb, and nobody helps carry a heavy piece out of a back bedroom.
Lots of haulers want to look at your stuff in person before giving a firm number. Then the price depends on how much of the truck your junk fills, which is hard to guess ahead of time. You often won't know the final cost until the work is done.
Donation centers have to think about what will actually sell, so stained, broken, or worn items often get turned away. Many won't take mattresses or old electronics at all. And even after they accept the good pieces, you still have to deal with everything they rejected.
A roll-off dumpster makes sense for a full gut renovation, but most cleanouts are smaller. You have to schedule delivery and pickup, possibly check permit rules, and give up your driveway for days. You also still do all the lifting and loading yourself.
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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 Athens 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 Athens's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader can ease a sofa down a narrow staircase in an older home or clear a packed detached garage. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Athens after each job.
If your old grill or boxed-up clutter is already out on the wide driveway of one of the newer subdivisions along the Huntsville corridor, curbside service is the simpler fit. Full-service makes more sense when a dresser is still upstairs or a chest freezer is wedged in a back utility room, since your Loaders carry it out from wherever it sits.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $75 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $70 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $85 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $75 |
| 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.
Wrestling a sleeper sofa into a borrowed truck bed in an Alabama July, with the humidity doing its worst, is nobody's idea of a Saturday. Book a time, and your Loader arrives, lifts, carries, and loads it while you stay in the shade. Your Loaders genuinely enjoy showing up for Athens neighbors.
Big, bulky items are hard to move alone, and what happens to them after pickup matters as much as the lift. In Athens, your Loader sorts each item by condition, so donation, recycling, or disposal fits what it is.
Furniture, appliances, and household goods that are clean and in good working shape may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader checks condition as items are carried out.
Items that are worn or damaged but not donatable, like metal frames, old appliances, or scrap wood, may be recycled where available. What can be reused depends on item condition and local acceptance.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or broken bulky items that can't be reused or recycled are hauled away by your Loader for responsible disposal at an appropriate facility serving the Athens area.
Set a pile out the wrong way and it can sit at the curb uncollected, so here is how disposal actually works in Athens and Limestone County.
Athens allows burning only for material that grows naturally, like brush, grass, leaves and limbs, and only with a fire department permit. Paper, cardboard, rubbish and household garbage are illegal to burn, and fires must stay 50 feet from structures and property lines.
Athens collects appliances from residents through bulk trash, but the doors must come off first for the safety of small children. Any Freon has to be professionally removed before the unit goes out, so an older fridge or freezer that still holds refrigerant isn't ready for the curb.
The Limestone County recycling drop-off takes sorted aluminum cans, metal cans, #1 and #2 plastic bottles and jars, mixed paper and small scrap metal like lawn mower blades. Leaving furniture, swimming pools, children's toys or any glass there is treated as illegal dumping, and cameras monitor the site.
Furniture, appliances and yard waste share a weekly limit of 4 cubic yards. Anything over the limit carries an additional charge that must be paid before collection. Items that contain liquids, such as paint or oil, are not picked up at all.
Under the Athens Code of Ordinances, waste from work a contractor or landscaper does for a resident is the contractor's responsibility. The city also won't collect material from work done by anyone who was paid or given materials for the job, so remodel and tree work debris needs another route.
Athens picks up leaves each season starting in November. There is no set schedule, and crews work from the west side to the east as staffing allows. Piles mixed with limbs or debris are left behind, and leaves in the street or over drainage inlets cause drainage problems when it rains.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless it's part of a scheduled pickup. Bulk piles set out with no arrangement with your hauler can be treated as illegal dumping. Check with your trash provider, such as Republic Services, about bulk pickup before putting anything out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Athens starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Truckload haulers often run $75 to $375.
Same-day slots are sometimes open, depending on Loader availability and the time you book. Enter your address during booking to see live availability. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home. For in-home pickups, someone should be there or leave access instructions.
Limestone County holds Trash Attack Days on the first Saturday of April and October. Residents can bring a pickup or trailer load of debris to the Republic Services Transfer Station at 16100 BFI Lane, Athens, from 7 a.m. to noon. It's free but you haul it yourself.
Paint, solvents and other household hazardous waste generally can't go in regular trash or a standard haul. Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful hosts an annual collection, with the 2026 event on June 13 at 1301 N Jefferson St. Hold these items for that day.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill. Depending on acceptance, good furniture and household goods may go to local donation partners, recyclable materials go to recycling facilities, and the rest goes to an appropriate disposal site. Outcomes are not guaranteed.
You pick your items and your address online, see the price upfront, and choose a pickup time. Your Loader will notify you before arriving, then carries the items out and hauls them away. The total is confirmed before booking, so there's no surprise at the door.
The main difference is how pricing works. Truckload haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK typically price by how much space your items fill, often after an estimate. LoadUp prices per item online before booking. For a full garage cleanout, a truckload hauler may be the better fit.
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