*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $90. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's all you see. Skip the runaround in East Hill and book a quick pickup, with a real price shown before you commit.
You search online, call the town office, request a few hauler quotes, and wait on callbacks that never come. Meanwhile the pile in the spare room or garage stays put, and another weekend slips by.
Municipal pickup schedules can help, but they often come with item limits, advance requests, and set collection dates. If your lease ends midweek or your junk is two flights up, waiting on the next scheduled pickup may not fit your timeline.
Many haulers want to see the job in person before giving you a number, then charge by how much of the truck you fill. You won't know the final total until the truck is loaded, and by then it's hard to say no.
Donating is a great instinct, and most donation centers carefully screen what they accept. Stained upholstery, worn-out appliances, and anything with broken parts are usually turned away, so you still have to figure out what to do with whatever they won't take.
A roll-off container means picking delivery and pickup dates, possibly getting a permit, and parking a huge steel box on a sloped driveway for days. Neighbors notice, and you still have to carry every heavy load out and lift it in yourself.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
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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 East Ithaca 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 East Ithaca's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader carries a dresser down the narrow stairwell of a second-floor apartment or across a steeply sloped driveway. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in East Ithaca after each job.
If you can roll an old grill or patio set to the end of your driveway on East Hill, curbside service keeps things simple. For anything still sitting in a basement, a top-floor unit, or a back room, choose full-service and your Loaders will come inside to lift and carry it out.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $90 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $85 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before 2 PM | from $100 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $90 |
| 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.
Ithaca winters are famously gray and snowy, and nobody wants to wrestle a bookshelf into a borrowed pickup while the wipers lose the fight. Skip the self-haul. Your Loader does the lifting, carrying, and loading, and your Loaders like showing up for the neighbors who make this corner of Tompkins County such a good place to live.
Bulky items are hard to move alone, and where they end up matters as much as getting them out. In East Ithaca, your Loader sorts each load by condition, favoring reuse and recycling when local options allow.
Furniture and household goods in good, clean shape may be donated when local options allow. Your Loader carries them out and sets them aside for a reuse channel, rather than mixing them with the rest of the load.
Items that are worn or damaged but still have usable materials, like metal frames or old appliances, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates these from the load when possible.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or broken-down pieces that can't be reused or recycled go to responsible disposal. Your Loader handles the lifting and loading, and the load goes to an appropriate Tompkins County disposal site.
If you miss a seasonal pickup or throw out a banned item, your junk can sit for months or you can break state law. Here's what applies in East Ithaca and Tompkins County.
PaintCare runs New York's paint stewardship program. It takes leftover house paint, stains and primers at participating stores and drop-off sites. A small fee added to the price of new paint pays for it, so you can return old cans from the garage without a disposal charge.
Town of Ithaca Public Works picks up brush, leaves, garden waste, pine needles, ornamental grass and grass clippings in mid-April and mid-October. If you miss those windows, the pile waits months. Town residents can also get free shredded wood mulch and compost at the Public Works Facility.
Since 2015, state law has banned residents from putting covered electronic equipment, such as televisions, computers and printers, in the trash. Manufacturers must offer consumers free recycling, so you can send old devices from a basement cleanout through take-back programs at no charge.
State open burning rules ban burning household garbage, furniture and construction debris statewide. Even where small brush fires are allowed, New York bans brush burning from mid-March to mid-May. That's when spring winds and dead growth left over from winter raise the risk of wildfires.
Town of Ithaca Public Works starts picking up discarded holiday trees on the first business day after Christmas and keeps going through mid-January. If you put a tree out after that, especially once snowbanks cover the roadside, it may sit until the spring yard waste pickup.
New York law requires tire sellers to take used tires from customers, up to the number of new tires bought. That makes the day you replace your tires the easiest time to clear the old set out of the garage. Fees charged on new tires help pay for the state's waste tire cleanup.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless a pickup has been arranged. Waste set out for collection must be material your hauler or municipality accepts. Bulk items are usually not collected with regular trash. Check with your trash hauler or the Town of Ithaca first, since leaving items out can count as illegal dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in East Ithaca starts at $90 for a single item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on charge, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Same-day slots are sometimes available, but it depends on Loader schedules in Tompkins County that day. Next-day is more dependable. Enter your address during booking to see the live openings for your location. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home.
Yes. The county's Recycling and Solid Waste Center at 122 Commercial Ave in Ithaca takes household waste. Disposal is $110 per ton starting in 2026, tires are $5 each, and there's an $85 annual solid waste fee per residential unit. Self-hauling is cheapest if you have a truck and time.
Household hazardous waste can't go in regular trash. Tompkins County runs Household Hazardous Waste collection events that require sign-up, so check with Recycling and Materials Management at (607) 273-6632 for dates. Loaders can't take hazardous materials, so plan those separately.
Loaders aim to donate or recycle as much as possible. Usable items may go to local charities when accepted, recyclables are sent for processing whenever possible, and what's left goes to licensed disposal sites. Outcomes depend on item condition and what facilities accept.
Choose your item online, enter your East Ithaca address, and pick a time window. You see the total before confirming. On pickup day your Loader calls ahead, carries the item out from inside or the curb, and hauls it away. Photos help confirm size and price.
Pricing model. 1-800-GOT-JUNK prices by the volume your items take up in the truck. LoadUp prices per item online, with the total confirmed before booking. For a few items that is often simpler, while a full garage cleanout may suit a volume-based quote.
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