*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $100. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's a chore you keep putting off. LoadUp handles the haul-away here in the Shires: book a pickup, see your price upfront, done.
You check the town site for a pickup that turns out not to exist, then start calling haulers. Two never call back, one wants to see it first. A month later, the pile has not moved.
There is no town bulk pickup to request here. What Shaftsbury runs is a transfer station: permit sticker on the windshield, three open days a week, extra charges for appliances and bulky loads. It only helps if the item is already in your truck.
Paid haulers covering this end of the county price by the truckload, and most will not quote until someone stands in your driveway looking at the pile. You block off a window, wait, and then find out what it costs.
Thrift outlets only want what they can resell, and condition decides it. Anything stored in a damp basement, anything torn, anything too heavy for volunteers to handle at the door: expect a no, sometimes after you have already loaded and driven it.
A rented container shows up when the rental company can get it there, sits in the dooryard for days, and still leaves every pound of the loading to you. Soft ground in spring adds its own risk to a gravel drive.
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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 Shaftsbury 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 Shaftsbury's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders handle the awkward part: a chest freezer in a bulkhead basement, a doorway too narrow for it. Every Loader is background checked and rated by real locals in Shaftsbury after each job.
Curbside fits when the item is already outside at the street or the end of the drive, which is simple on a flat gravel turnaround and less so on a long uphill one. Go full service when the sectional is still upstairs or down the steep, narrow basement stairs of an older South Shaftsbury village house, and your Loaders carry it out.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $100 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $95 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $110 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $100 |
| 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.
You know the drill: permit sticker in the windshield, load the truck, and hope North Road is open the day you finally have a second set of hands. A box spring or a chest freezer is a different problem entirely. Your Loaders handle that part, gravel driveway included. Shaftsbury folks are good company.
Every Shaftsbury pickup ends with the same question: where does this actually go? Condition decides. Your Loader aims for donation or recycling when local options allow, and disposal when an item is past saving.
Furniture that is clean, intact, and still usable may head to a secondhand or reuse outlet, when your Loader finds one in the area accepting drop-offs. No donation receipt is issued.
A cracked box spring or rusted swing set is a recycling candidate, not a donation. Vermont keeps recyclables and clean wood out of landfills, so metal and lumber are recovered where facilities accept them.
Water-damaged sectionals, mildewed mattresses, and collapsed particleboard have no second life. Your Loaders load them out for disposal at a permitted facility, so you skip a trip inside the Shaftsbury transfer station's three open days.
Getting disposal wrong in Shaftsbury can mean a rejected load or a state violation notice, since Bennington County towns enforce Vermont's landfill bans directly.
Under Vermont's Universal Recycling Law, glass, metal, cans, paper, cardboard and rigid plastics labeled one and two cannot legally be thrown away. Clean, untreated wood has been banned from landfill disposal since 2016.
Vermont bans leaf and yard debris from trash statewide, so brush, leaves and grass from a Shaftsbury cleanout must be composted at home, dropped for composting, or otherwise diverted rather than landfilled.
Computers, monitors, televisions, printers and computer peripherals cannot go in Vermont trash. The manufacturer funded E-Cycles program covers recycling at no charge for households, charities, school districts and businesses with ten or fewer employees.
Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, heat pumps and dehumidifiers hold refrigerant that federal law bars from being vented. Vermont facilities have licensed technicians recover the gas, which usually carries a per unit charge separate from scrap handling.
White goods such as stoves, washers, dryers and dishwashers cannot be landfilled. Units that are mostly metal get processed to pull mercury switches and PCB capacitors, then recycled as scrap rather than buried.
Bennington County Solid Waste Alliance, which includes Shaftsbury, runs a seasonal household hazardous waste depot in Bennington by appointment for paints, pesticides, solvents, pool chemicals, propane cylinders and fire extinguishers, all of which are banned from regular trash.
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(678) 884-4738No, Shaftsbury is rural and has no municipal curbside trash or bulk pickup. Residents haul their own junk to the town transfer station at 526 North Road, which requires a $20 annual access permit plus pay-as-you-throw stickers for household bags. For heavy or bulky loads without a truck, a hauler is the practical route.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Shaftsbury starts at $100, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, then each additional piece of junk is a flat add-on, with your full total confirmed before you book. The town transfer station is cheaper if you can haul it yourself, at $20 for the yearly permit plus per-bag sticker fees.
Same-day and next-day slots open up in many Bennington County zip codes when you book early in the day. Enter your Shaftsbury address during checkout to see live availability. Because North, Center, and South Shaftsbury are spread out, confirming your exact spot helps lock the closest window.
Vermont's Universal Recycling Law bans recyclables, leaf and yard debris, and food scraps from the trash statewide. Hazardous items like paint, propane tanks, pesticides, and fire extinguishers go to the Bennington County HHW facility at 904 Houghton Lane, open seasonally May to October by appointment for $5 per carload. Loaders cannot take those hazardous materials.
Loaders sort loads and aim to keep usable junk out of the landfill whenever options allow. Furniture and household goods in good shape are routed to area donation and reuse outlets when they are accepted, and metal, electronics, and other materials go to recyclers where possible. This lines up with the Bennington County Solid Waste Alliance goal of diverting waste from disposal.
You book online by entering your Shaftsbury zip, listing your items, and locking a price and time slot upfront. For curbside or driveway pickups you don't need to be present, just leave the junk accessible with notes. For inside removals, someone should be home or provide access details, and your Loader typically calls ahead before arriving.
Casella handles the Shaftsbury transfer station and hauling but works on contracts and container fees, while national services like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King price by truckload after an on-site look. LoadUp prices each item online, so your cost is set before anyone shows up. For small one or two item jobs, that upfront model usually runs less.
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