*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it takes over your week. In the Tree City, LoadUp makes it simple: book a quick pickup, see your price upfront, and get your space back.
You search for options, call the city, and request a few hauler quotes. One never calls back, another wants to come look first. Weeks later, the junk is still sitting in the garage.
City bulk pickup programs can work well for a single item that fits the rules. But municipal pickup schedules usually need advance requests, limit what they accept, and expect you to drag everything to the curb yourself, which is tough from a basement or a third-floor walk-up.
Many haulers won't give a real number until someone walks through your home. Then the price gets tied to a fraction of a truckload, so you're left guessing how much space a recliner and a few boxes take up until the bill arrives.
Thrift stores and charities need things they can resell, so stained mattresses, worn couches, and older electronics often get turned away. Even good pieces still need someone to load and deliver them, and anything left over comes right back to you.
A dumpster makes sense for a gut renovation, not for clearing out one spare room. You pick a delivery window, maybe deal with placement rules, give up your driveway for days, and still do all the lifting while the neighbors watch it fill up.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
Avg. 60 secondsPick a time that works for your schedule, including same-day availability if you book before 2PM.
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 Kent 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 Kent's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders work a sleeper sofa up narrow basement stairs in an older home, one careful step at a time. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Kent after each job.
If the old grill or treadmill is already in your driveway, curbside (outdoor) pickup lets your Loaders grab it and go. For a dresser in an upstairs walk-up rental or a dead freezer in the basement of an older Kent home, full-service means 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 $75 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $70 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before 2 PM | from $85 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $75 |
| 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.
Kent is a walk-everywhere town, which is lovely until a sleeper sofa needs to leave a second-floor walk-up and parking is a block away. Your Loaders carry it down, load it up, and haul it off. They like showing up for this community, from longtime homeowners to students on their first lease.
Bulky items pile up fast in a college town with older homes and busy rental turnovers, so where they end up matters in Kent. Your Loader sorts each piece by condition, aiming to keep usable things out of landfills.
When a couch, dresser, or bike is clean and still sturdy, your Loader can set it aside for donation when local options allow. Please don't expect any receipt or paperwork.
Items that are worn or damaged but not donatable, like metal bed frames or old electronics, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates them from the rest of the load when possible.
Heavily damaged or contaminated pieces, such as a soaked mattress or broken sectional from a Kent basement, are hauled off by your Loader for responsible disposal at an appropriate facility.
Illegal burning or dumping can bring an Ohio EPA violation, and these rules decide what a cleanout in Kent and across Portage County can legally throw away.
Federal Clean Air Act rules require the refrigerant in refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners and dehumidifiers to be recovered before they are scrapped or landfilled. This also covers basement dehumidifiers that run hard through humid Kent summers.
Ohio treats construction and demolition debris as a regulated waste that belongs at a licensed facility or landfill. Burying drywall, shingles or lumber in the backyard, or leaving it piled there indefinitely, counts as open dumping under state law.
Ohio EPA open burning rules restrict municipalities like Kent, so you can't burn leaves, brush or household trash in a backyard pile or barrel. Garbage, tires and demolition debris can't be burned anywhere in Ohio, inside a restricted area or not.
Ohio EPA guidance allows latex paint to be dried out and thrown away with household trash. That helps when a Kent winter ruins cans left in an unheated garage. Oil-based paints and stains go to household hazardous waste collection instead.
Ohio EPA bans open dumping of scrap tires and requires anyone moving large loads of tires to register as a transporter. Tires left outside through wet Northeast Ohio summers also hold standing water where mosquitoes breed.
Since 1993, Ohio has banned sending yard waste that is kept separate from other trash to landfills. Leaves, grass clippings and brush gathered on their own go to composting instead. Keeping yard debris out of bagged household junk keeps that option open.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless your trash hauler or the city has agreed to take it. Bulk items set out without an arrangement can count as illegal dumping. Call Kent Service Administration at 330-678-8105 to confirm what your address is allowed to put out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Kent starts at $75, and curbside pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Truck-volume haulers often quote $150 to $750.
Same-day slots are sometimes open, but it depends on the schedule in your area. Enter your address during booking to see the live availability. Next-day and later options are usually easier to find, especially when Kent State move-out brings a rush.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no. Leave the items out and add access notes at booking. For items inside the home, someone should be there or you can leave entry instructions. Your Loader contacts you before arriving.
Hazardous items like paint, chemicals, and batteries generally can't go in household trash. Portage County's Solid Waste Recycling District lists drop-off options for them. Yard waste has its own drop-off at the city's transfer site at Plum Creek Park.
Loaders aim to donate usable items whenever possible, and try to recycle what can't be donated. Items in good shape may go to local options like Habitat for Humanity's ReStore on S Water St. Whatever can't be reused or recycled goes to a proper disposal facility, depending on acceptance.
You book online, choose your items and a time window, and see the total before confirming. On pickup day, your Loader calls ahead, removes the items, and handles the hauling. There's no need to rent a truck or load anything yourself.
The pricing model differs. Both of those companies price by truck volume and give an on-site estimate or quote, while LoadUp prices per item online and confirms your total before booking. For a few items that's often simpler, but a full cleanout may suit volume pricing.
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