*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it turns into a project you keep putting off. Around the Triple Ripple, you can book a pickup, see the price before you confirm, and get it gone.
You read the cleanup restrictions twice, call around to figure out which rules apply to you, then leave messages with two haulers and hear back from one. Weeks pass. The junk is still exactly where you left it.
The citywide cleanup has come around once each spring, district by district, with a volume cap of roughly one truck bed per address. Most mattresses are too big for the size limit, TVs are excluded, and a fridge needs proof the refrigerant is gone.
Most haulers want to walk the property before quoting, which means scheduling a visit just to hear a number. Then it is priced by truckload, so a half full load bills like a full one. You learn what you actually owe after the truck is already in the driveway.
Resale shops around the county are selective for good reason: they take what sells. Anything stained, torn, or missing hardware gets turned away at the door, often after you have already loaded it and driven it over. Few of them come to you, and none take the rest.
A roll off container ties up your driveway for days and runs on delivery and pickup dates you do not control. Narrow drives and terrace strips on the older streets complicate placement, street spots can require permission, and neighbors notice. One room 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.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Three Rivers 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 Three Rivers's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Narrow basement stairs in a century-old two-story turn a sleeper sofa into a two-person job. Your Loaders are background checked and rated by real locals in Three Rivers after each job.
Anything already sitting at the street or stacked in the driveway fits curbside service, which keeps the visit short. Full service makes sense when the treadmill is still in an upstairs bedroom, the old console TV is in the basement, or a lake-area rental needs clearing between tenants, since your Loaders carry it out from inside.
| 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.
Anyone who has waited at a crossing here knows the trains keep their own schedule, and a loaded truck bed does not shorten the wait. Add a drop-off run to that and the afternoon is gone. Your Loaders do the lifting and the driving instead, and they like showing up for Three Rivers.
What leaves a Three Rivers garage rarely belongs in one pile. Your Loaders sort by condition as they load, pursuing donation or recycling when local options allow and sending only the rest to disposal.
Items in clean, working shape, a patio set, a dresser, a bike, may be offered for donation through local resale and charitable channels when St. Joseph County options are accepting them.
Worn or broken pieces can still hold value as material. Your Loaders keep metal bed frames, appliances, and televisions separate for recycling where available, since what Michigan processors accept changes.
Soaked, moldy, or badly broken bulky items, a split hot tub shell or a water-damaged sectional, are hauled by your Loaders to a permitted transfer station or landfill serving the Three Rivers area.
Put the wrong item at the curb in Three Rivers and it gets left behind, or cited; here is what the city and St. Joseph County require.
Three Rivers partners with Waste Management on a once-a-year, district-by-district cleanup, and each household is limited to roughly one pickup truck load. Anything stacked past that limit is left behind for the property owner to remove.
Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are turned away during the city cleanup unless a certification sticker shows the refrigerant was already recovered. Venting Freon is illegal, so a certified technician has to pull it first.
Michigan's takeback law makes manufacturers fund free recycling of computers, monitors, printers and TVs, and television makers must accept any brand. St. Joseph County's collection events take two TVs per household free, then charge ten dollars each.
State law has kept grass, leaves and brush out of landfills since 1995 to preserve capacity and push composting instead. Three Rivers runs a compost drop-off site, though non-residents and contractors must buy a pass to use it.
The city cleanup refuses paints, solvents, oils, propane cylinders, tires and automotive batteries because landfills cannot legally take them. St. Joseph County holds two household hazardous waste collections a year, free for residents up to one hundred pounds.
State litter law sets a civil fine of up to eight hundred dollars for less than a cubic foot and up to fifteen hundred for more, with misdemeanor charges and court-ordered cleanup beyond three cubic feet.
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(678) 884-4738Not year round. The city runs one Waste Management cleanup each spring, usually the first week of May, split across the four districts with a 3 cubic yard limit per home. Items can't be bagged, so use open boxes. Downtown residents use the East and West lot dumpsters instead. Call DPS at 269-273-1845 for dates.
LoadUp junk removal in Three Rivers starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, then each additional piece is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed before you book. Local haulers that quote by the truckload usually run $150 to $400 for a comparable load.
Same-day is open in many Three Rivers zip codes when you book before noon, and next-day covers the wider St. Joseph County area. Availability depends on Loader routes near you, so enter your address during booking to see the live windows before you lock anything in.
Quite a bit. The Three Rivers cleanup rejects refrigerators, freezers, and AC units without a Freon certification sticker, plus tires, rims, auto and marine batteries, household garbage, and anything over 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, 3 feet tall, or 100 pounds. Paints, solvents, and oils are banned too. LoadUp can take most of those year round.
Loaders sort loads and try to keep usable goods out of the landfill whenever options allow. Furniture and household items can route to local donation when accepted, and recyclable metal or cardboard is separated out. Whatever's left is taken to the proper facility rather than dumped at the nearest spot.
You pick your items online or by phone, get an upfront price, and choose a date. For curbside jobs you don't need to be home, just leave access notes. For in-home pickups someone should be present. Your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes ahead, then handles all the lifting and loading.
Mostly pricing and booking. Outfits like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and local crews such as Fast Act often charge by truckload volume and quote on site, so your price isn't set until the truck arrives. LoadUp prices each item online and locks it before anyone shows up, which usually helps on small one or two item jobs.
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