*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. LoadUp makes clearing it out simple on the Sunrise Side, with easy scheduling and a clear price before you book.
You search online, call the city office, leave messages with a couple of haulers, and wait on callbacks that never come. A few weekends go by, and the junk is still sitting in the garage.
Municipal pickup schedules can work well when your items fit the rules and your timing lines up with theirs. Many programs limit what they accept, require you to call ahead, and expect everything at the curb. That doesn't help if you're managing a cottage from downstate.
Some haulers want to come out and look before they'll give you a number. Others price by fractions of a truckload, so you only find out what a quarter load means once everything is on the truck and the final total seems to grow.
Donation centers need items they can actually resell, so stained mattresses, worn recliners, and appliances that stopped working usually get turned away. Even good pieces need a way to get there, and someone has to carry that dresser down the basement stairs first.
A roll-off dumpster makes sense for a gut renovation, not for clearing one spare room or a crowded shed. You coordinate delivery and pickup, may need permission to place it, and end up with a big steel box on your driveway for days while neighbors notice.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
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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.
No in-person charges
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 East Tawas 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 piano, hot tub, or safe 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 Tawas's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders know how to angle a sleeper sofa up a steep, narrow basement staircase and through a tight doorway. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in East Tawas after each job.
If a worn patio set or old chest freezer is already sitting in the driveway, curbside pickup is all you need. If you're closing up a cottage for the off-season and a mattress is still upstairs with a crowded crawl space below, choose full-service so your Loaders go inside and carry everything out, even if you're managing the place from out of town.
| 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 2 PM | 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.
Anyone who has closed up a cottage knows the last weekend of the season disappears fast, and the first snow does not make a full garage easier to face. Your Loaders do the lifting, carrying, and loading, so you can lock the door and go. We like showing up for East Tawas neighbors, year-round or seasonal.
Big, awkward items pile up fast in a lakeshore town like East Tawas, and where they end up matters. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, so donation, recycling, or disposal fits what you have.
Furniture, appliances, and household goods in good, clean condition may be donated when possible and where local options allow. Your Loader carries them out and sets them aside for that route.
Items that are worn or damaged but not donatable, like metal frames or old electronics, may be recycled when possible. Availability depends on what local facilities in the area currently accept.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or broken bulky items, such as ruined mattresses or water-logged furniture, are loaded by your Loader and taken for responsible disposal at an appropriate local facility when recycling is not an option.
Put the wrong bag or bundle at the curb in East Tawas and it gets tagged and left behind, so these city, Iosco County, and Michigan rules shape every cleanout.
Iosco County runs a boat shrink wrap recycling program, funded by the county recycling millage, with a self-serve drop-off in Tawas City during spring. It runs on a limited schedule, so check the county's special events listing for current dates.
East Tawas trash service allows one bulk item per week, set out with regular Thursday garbage. It may be collected separately from the rest of the trash, and because pickup runs on only one side of the street, it may belong across the road.
The city collects grass and leaves curbside on Mondays, May through November, only in biodegradable paper bags up to 30 gallons and 35 pounds. Plastic bags and barrels are refused, and residents can also self-deliver to the City Compost Area on Thursday evenings.
Citing state environmental rules, East Tawas issues no burn permits for trees, logs, brush or stumps within the city. Curbside brush pickup happens the first Monday of each month, May through November, for branches under 3 inches tied in bundles under 4 feet long.
Iosco County electronics recycling events accept flat screen, LCD/LED, CRT and computer monitors, laptop and desktop computers, and gaming consoles, with secure destruction of hard drives. Refrigerators, dishwashers and freezers are excluded, and events are limited to county residents and property owners.
State regulations prohibit GFL, the city's garbage collection provider, from collecting motor vehicle tires, used oil, lead acid batteries, asbestos and items containing PCBs. Lead-acid batteries are among the materials accepted at Iosco County's electronics recycling events.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless your trash hauler or the city has approved it. Extra bags or bulky piles set out without arrangements can be treated as illegal dumping. Call East Tawas City Hall or your hauler to confirm what is allowed and what it costs.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in East Tawas starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickup takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each additional item is a flat add-on charge. You see the exact total before booking.
Sometimes. Availability in a small Iosco County market depends on Loader schedules and your timing, so enter your address at booking to see live openings. Next-day or scheduled slots are usually easier to get, especially in the busy summer season.
Not for curbside or driveway pickups. Leave the items out and add access notes at booking. For items inside a home, garage, or cottage, someone should be there or you can leave entry instructions. Your Loader contacts you before arriving.
Hazardous items such as paint, chemicals, batteries, and motor oil generally can't go in household trash in Michigan. Large items like furniture and appliances often need special handling too. Check with your hauler or the Iosco County solid waste office for current drop-off options.
Loaders try to donate usable items to local charities and thrift stores when options allow. They recycle what they can, such as scrap metal and cardboard, depending on acceptance. Items that can't be donated or recycled go to an appropriate disposal facility.
Pick the items you want gone, choose a time window, and see your price online before you confirm. On pickup day your Loader calls ahead, hauls the items out, and loads them. You pay after the work is done, and there is no in-person estimate.
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