*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $85. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up faster than anyone plans for, and hauling it off yourself gets old. Book a pickup anywhere in the Mother City of the Dakotas, see your price up front, and it's gone.
First you search. Then you call the city, learn what the free cleanup will and won't take, and start dialing haulers. One wants to see it in person, two never call back, and the pile sits another month.
The city's free cleanup is a spring event, not an on-demand service, and it runs for households on city collection routes. Items go out in sorted piles during a set window, and tires, refrigerators, and air conditioners are not part of it. Properties off those routes are on their own.
Most hauling outfits price by how much of the truck bed your load fills, which nobody can picture in advance. So you schedule an estimate, take time off to meet someone at the house, and only then hear a number you can accept or decline.
Thrift and reuse operations have limited floor space and strict condition standards, so stained upholstery, torn box springs, and anything with a broken part usually gets turned down. Pickup, where it's offered at all, tends to stop at the ground floor.
A roll-off container ties up the driveway for days, has to be dropped and pulled on dates that match your weekend, and still leaves every item for you to lift over the side. Street placement can also mean a permit and irritated neighbors.
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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 Yankton 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 Yankton's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders handle the narrow basement staircases and detached garages common in older housing, and every Loader is background checked and rated by real locals in Yankton after each job.
If the load is already sitting in the driveway or at the street, curbside works and nobody needs to come inside. Choose full service when the items are still in a walkout basement, an attic, or a backyard shed, and your Loaders carry them out for you.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $85 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $80 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $95 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $85 |
| 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.
Half of Yankton owns a pickup and a trailer, and the other half knows somebody who does. Borrowing one is the easy part. Getting a treadmill back up the basement stairs alone in January is not. Your Loaders do the carrying, and they like showing up for a town where people are used to handling things themselves.
A treadmill still in working shape and one that sat through a damp basement season do not end up in the same place. Condition decides the route on every Yankton pickup, and your Loaders sort as they load.
Clean, intact furniture and household goods may be offered to a local reuse outlet when one is accepting that category. If you need paperwork for a deduction, arrange that drop-off directly with the organization.
Items too worn to pass along still hold material worth recovering. Scrap metal, wood, cardboard, and electronics from a cleanout can go to recycling channels where those exist and are accepting drop-offs.
Anything soaked, splintered, or crumbling, like a water-damaged mattress or a broken swing set, gets carried out by your Loaders and taken to a licensed landfill or transfer station serving the Yankton area.
Set the wrong item at the curb in Yankton and the city can remove it at your expense, so these Yankton County rules matter.
Yankton sets a narrow window for its annual Citywide Cleanup, and materials placed at the curb before the announced start date are not permitted. The city may remove early piles at the property owner's expense.
Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers are not eligible for Yankton's Citywide Cleanup collection. They must go to the transfer station, where a fee applies because refrigerant has to be recovered before the metal is recycled.
State law keeps yard waste, lead acid batteries, waste motor oil and white goods out of South Dakota landfills. That ban is why Yankton routes those items into recycling channels instead of the regular garbage cart.
Grass clippings and leaves are excluded from Yankton's curbside cleanup, but the transfer station takes them free year round. An after hours yard waste area accepts only grass, leaves, garden waste and small sticks.
Concrete or bricks from sidewalks, patios and landscaping can be dropped at the Yankton Transfer Station free of charge when kept separate from other waste. Mixed rubble from demolished garages, sheds or houses carries a disposal fee.
Paints, thinners, painting oils and similar household hazardous waste are barred from the Yankton Transfer Station entirely. Residents are expected to use them up, pass them along, or hold them for a household hazardous waste collection event.
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(678) 884-4738Not on regular trash day. The city collects household garbage in the black 95-gallon roll cart only, and loose bags or items left at the curb will not be picked up. Bulky junk goes to the Transfer Station or through a hauler. Curbside pickup of branches, wood, metal, and concrete happens only during the annual spring Citywide Cleanup.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Yankton starts at $85, and leaving items at the curb or driveway takes a flat $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee for labor and hauling, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed before you book. Self-hauling to the Transfer Station is cheaper if you have a truck and time.
Same-day and next-day slots are often open in Yankton when you book early in the day. Availability depends on crew scheduling, so entering your address during booking shows the live pickup windows you can choose from.
No, not through regular collection. In Yankton, refrigerators, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and tires must be taken to the Transfer Station at 1200 West 23rd Street, where a disposal fee is charged for each. A hauler like LoadUp can handle these for you so you skip the trip and the fee at the gate.
Usable items are kept out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and appliances in good shape can go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore downtown on Capital Street or Goodwill of the Great Plains on Fox Run Parkway, and metals and recyclables route to the Transfer Station. Only what cannot be reused is landfilled.
You book online by entering your Yankton address, listing your items, and picking a date, with the price locked in before you confirm. On pickup day the crew calls ahead, loads everything themselves, and hauls it off. You do not need to drag heavy items to the curb unless you want the curbside discount.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no. Leave the junk in an accessible spot with notes at booking and the crew handles the rest. For items inside the home or garage, someone should be present or provide access instructions. Your crew calls roughly 30 minutes before arrival either way.
Pricing model and how the quote is set. Truckload services like 1-800-GOT-JUNK price by how much space your junk fills the truck, usually confirmed after an on-site look. LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before anyone shows up, which tends to be lower for one or two item jobs.
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