*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk accumulates quietly, and then one day it's in the way. Here in the Magic Capital of the World, a pickup takes a couple of minutes to book, with your full price upfront.
A couple of phone calls in, you learn the county only takes some of it, your trash service takes less, one hauler never calls back, and the other wants to see it first. Two months later, nothing has moved.
Out here, trash service is usually something you arrange with a private hauler rather than a village-run program, so there is no standing bulk day. The county's collection lands two afternoons a year at the Centreville fairgrounds, and it is built for electronics, tires, and chemicals, not your couch.
The old model starts with an in-person estimate, then a price quoted as a fraction of a truck you cannot picture. Out this far, some shops quietly pass on a one-item job, and the number you heard on the phone can change once they are standing in your driveway.
Donation only works if the item is still sellable. Dated appliances, stained upholstery, and most mattresses get turned down, and the nearest outlets are a drive toward Three Rivers or Sturgis, so a refusal at the door means loading it all back up.
A roll-off means a week of steel parked on your drive for one afternoon of work, and you are still the one lifting everything into it. Narrow lake roads and soft gravel complicate the drop, and anything visible from the road collects what the neighbors are done with.
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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 Colon's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Hauling a chest freezer up basement steps or squeezing a sleeper sofa through a narrow farmhouse doorway takes practice. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Colon after each job.
If you can already get items to the end of a gravel drive or set them beside the garage, curbside service keeps things simple. Choose full service when the load is still sitting in a basement, a barn loft, or a cottage that nobody has opened since last season, 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 of what piles up here lives in a pole barn, a cottage basement off Palmer or Sturgeon, or a garage that has not closed since the docks came out. Hauling it yourself means a borrowed truck and most of a Saturday. Your Loaders do the lifting instead, and they like working for folks in this village.
Most of St. Joseph County, Colon included, has no municipal trash collection program, so bulky items are your own arrangement. Your Loaders sort each load by condition, aiming for donation or recycling before disposal.
Your Loader may offer clean, intact furniture, working appliances, and household goods to a nearby reuse outlet when one is accepting them. If you want a donation receipt, donate the item yourself before booking.
Broken pieces with salvageable material, think rusted swing sets, dead appliances, or an old television, head toward scrap buyers and electronics recyclers around southwest Michigan when those options are open that day.
What is left, a mildewed basement sofa or a water-damaged mattress from a lake place, goes to a licensed landfill or transfer station serving St. Joseph County rather than back into a Colon barn.
A rejected load or a littering citation usually traces back to one skipped step, and these disposal rules govern Colon and the rest of St. Joseph County.
State law has kept leaves, grass, brush and tree trimmings out of landfills since the mid 1990s, to preserve capacity and push composting instead. Only diseased or infested material qualifies for a narrow exception.
St. Joseph County has no contracted or municipal curbside trash program, and several townships rely on drop-off sites instead. Colon households arrange service privately, so there is no scheduled municipal bulk day for large items.
St. Joseph County supports an electronics recycling program near Three Rivers open Saturday mornings, accepting televisions, monitors, computers, printers, stereo equipment and cables. Keeping that lead and mercury out of the landfill is the point.
Refrigerators, freezers and window air conditioning units are excluded from the county electronics program because sealed refrigerant has to be recovered by a certified technician first. Area scrap metal recyclers accept those appliances instead.
The county holds household hazardous waste collections twice a year, typically spring and fall, for county residents only. Pool chemicals, pesticides, old gasoline, batteries, fluorescent bulbs and oil-based paints belong there, never in a curbside can.
Michigan's littering law treats less than one cubic foot of dumped material as a civil infraction with a fine up to $800, and larger piles climb into misdemeanor territory with steeper penal fines.
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(678) 884-4738Only with a scheduled pickup. Colon's village ordinance prohibits illegal dumping, so items set out without an appointment can trigger enforcement. Republic Services handles curbside trash for residents, but bulk items like mattresses and appliances usually need a separate scheduled pickup and a fee may apply.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Colon starts at $80, and leaving items at the curb or driveway takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee for labor and hauling, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your exact total is confirmed before you book.
Sometimes, though next-day is more realistic in a small village like Colon. Loader availability across St. Joseph County drives the schedule, so enter your zip during booking to see live dates. You can usually lock a window within a day or two.
Those are not accepted in regular curbside trash under Michigan rules. St. Joseph County runs a household hazardous waste collection twice a year that takes e-waste, tires, latex paint, and appliances, free up to 100 pounds and $1 per pound after. LoadUp Loaders can also haul appliances without a Freon tag.
Loaders sort items on-site and aim to keep what they can out of the landfill. Usable goods may go to charities like Goodwill of Southwestern Michigan in Three Rivers, and electronics can route to e-waste recyclers like Green Earth in St. Joseph. Whatever can't be reused is disposed of responsibly.
You book online by entering your Colon zip, selecting your items, and choosing a date, with the full price locked upfront. On pickup day your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes before arrival and handles all the lifting and loading. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home.
The difference is pricing and booking. Haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King charge by truckload and often quote on-site, so your price isn't set until the truck is in your driveway. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up in Colon.
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