*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, and getting rid of it shouldn't take over your week. Book a quick pickup in Ithaca and see your price first.
You search online, call the city, leave messages with a few haulers, and wait. One quotes a range, another wants to come look first, a third never calls back. Weeks later, the pile hasn't moved.
Municipal pickup schedules can handle some bulky items, but they usually need advance arrangements, have limits on what gets accepted, and run on their own calendar. Rules can also differ between the city and surrounding towns, which isn't much help if your lease ends Friday.
Many haulers won't commit to a price until someone visits in person, then quote by fractions of a truck you can't really picture. You end up booking time just to get an estimate, without knowing what the final bill will be until the work is done.
Local reuse and donation spots do good work, but they have to be selective. Stained upholstery, worn mattresses, and broken appliances often get turned away. Most also expect you to load, haul, and unload everything yourself, which is hard when you're carrying it down hillside steps.
A dumpster can make sense for a full gut renovation. For a cluttered basement or a single room, you're dealing with delivery windows, possible permits, and a big container sitting on a narrow street or steep driveway for days while you do all the lifting.
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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 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 Ithaca's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders handle the narrow back staircase of an older multi-story rental, angling a sleeper sofa down turn by turn. Each one is background-checked and rated by real locals in Ithaca after every job.
If you can get your items to the end of the driveway or onto the porch, curbside pickup is the simpler choice. If they are in the basement of an older house or up the stairs of a downtown walk-up, choose full-service so your Loaders can carry everything out from inside.
| 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.
Plenty of Ithacans get around on foot or by TCAT, and neither is built for moving a dresser down an icy sidewalk in January. Add narrow stairwells and parking that is never where you need it, and a simple haul becomes a project. Your Loaders like showing up for this town, and they handle the heavy part.
Bulky items rarely end up in the same place, and in Ithaca, where older homes and tight streets make every haul a judgment call, your Loader sorts each piece by condition to decide where it goes next.
Furniture, housewares, and other items in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader can keep those pieces separate from the rest of the load.
Items that are worn but not donatable, such as metal appliances or old electronics, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates them from general debris when local recycling options allow.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or contaminated bulky items, like ruined mattresses or waterlogged furniture, are taken for responsible disposal. Your Loader hauls them from basements, stairs, and driveways in Ithaca and loads them out.
Miss the 4 a.m. set-out deadline and the city will not come back for your trash, one of several local rules residents in Ithaca and Tompkins County should know.
The county center takes car, light truck, motorcycle, and ATV tires for a per-tire fee, with rims accepted up to 20 inches. Industrial tires, excavator tracks, and hard rubber tires are not accepted. Bicycle tires and inner tubes go free for up to ten.
City code bars setting out yard waste in any bag made partly of plastic, and limits brush to two bundles per collection. For bigger spring or fall cleanups, the county drop-off sells yard waste coupons priced per vehicle load.
Tompkins County takes household hazardous waste, including damaged lithium batteries, only at appointment-based drop-off events. Residents need a valid solid waste permit and an appointment, with one sign-up per household per event. Leftover paint has additional options through PaintCare.
City trash collection runs on prepaid yellow tags, and the city raised tag prices for 2026, citing county tipping fees that rose 29 percent since 2018. Tags are sold at City Hall and several local grocery stores.
The Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste Center charges $20 per refrigerant unit, and any material with a fee requires a county permit. Those permits can only be purchased by Tompkins County residents and businesses.
Since July 1, 2025, Tompkins County single stream recycling no longer accepts black plastic takeout containers or food and beverage cartons like milk and soup boxes. Cardboard boxes and clean pizza boxes are still accepted.
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(678) 884-4738Not as extra bulk. City curbside trash in Ithaca generally requires tags on each can or bag, and large items outside normal collection are not guaranteed pickup. Check with the Department of Public Works at (607) 272-1718 before setting anything out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Ithaca starts at $90, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each additional item is a flat add-on, with the exact total confirmed before booking.
Often yes for small loads if you have a truck and time. Tompkins County's 2026 trash disposal has a $20 minimum fee and $110 per ton. Hauling service costs more but covers lifting, loading, and transport, which matters for heavy or bulky pieces.
Same-day slots are sometimes available, depending on Loader schedules in Tompkins County. Enter your address at booking to see current openings. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home, and for indoor jobs you can leave access instructions.
Hazardous items like paint, solvents, and chemicals generally don't belong in household trash. Tompkins County runs household hazardous waste collection events, funded in part by its annual solid waste fee, so check the county Recycling and Materials Management schedule.
Loaders aim to donate usable items to local charities and recycle what they can, depending on acceptance. Whatever can't be reused or recycled goes to licensed disposal sites. Local reuse groups like Finger Lakes ReUse are among the kinds of options in the area.
Enter your items and address online to see a price, then pick a time window. Your Loader typically sends a heads-up before arriving, hauls the items out, and takes care of disposal. For large cleanouts, an on-site estimate can be arranged.
The main difference is pricing and booking. Traditional haulers often price by truckload and confirm the cost on site, while LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before booking. Truckload pricing can suit very large cleanouts.
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