*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until dealing with it eats a whole weekend. Book a pickup anywhere in the City of Living Trees, see your price upfront, and skip the landfill run.
You call about the city's special pickup, learn what it won't take, then wait on quotes from haulers who were going to call back Tuesday. Two weekends on, nothing has moved except the calendar.
The city's weekly special pickup handles what won't fit in a cart, but you arrange it ahead, pay before it happens, and get everything out to the curb or alley yourself. Crews stay off private property, and the spring cleanup comes once a year on dates the city sets.
Most haulers want eyes on the load before they quote, so you hold a window open, wait, and then hear a number based on how much of a truck you fill. Decide to add one more item and the number moves again.
Reuse outlets have limited floor space and strict standards, so a stained mattress, a cracked particleboard dresser, or anything with a missing part gets turned away. Even when they say yes, you still have to load it, drive it over, and hope it fits their intake hours.
A roll-off means scheduling delivery and pickup around your weekend, finding a spot that isn't blocking an alley or a shared drive, and checking whether it can sit on the street at all. For one room's worth of junk, you are renting a lot of empty steel.
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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 Sterling 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 Sterling's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Older in-town homes often mean a narrow basement stairwell or a packed detached garage, so your Loaders handle the lifting. Every one is background checked and rated by real locals in Sterling after each job.
If the load is already stacked at the curb or sitting in the driveway, curbside keeps the booking simple. Go full service when it is still in a basement, a back room, or an outbuilding and your Loaders need to carry it out for you.
| 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 noon | 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.
Anybody who has ratchet-strapped a load here knows what a high plains crosswind does to an open trailer, and the landfill run is never the good part of a Saturday. You already own the truck. Your Loaders handle the lifting and the strapping instead, and they like showing up for neighbors in the City of Living Trees.
Most Sterling cleanouts mix things worth passing on with things that are simply finished. Your Loader sorts the load at pickup, moving each piece toward reuse, recycling, or disposal based on its condition and what local facilities will take.
If a dresser or treadmill is clean and working, your Loader will look for a local reuse option, since northeastern Colorado outlets accept secondhand goods selectively and availability shifts week to week.
Broken appliances, scrap metal, and electronics follow a different path: Colorado law keeps televisions, computers, and similar devices out of state landfills, so your Loader separates recyclable material where Logan County options allow.
Mattresses, water-damaged furniture, and remodel debris rarely have a second life, so your Loader handles them as waste and disposes of them at a permitted site serving Sterling, within whatever that facility accepts that day.
Putting the wrong load at the curb in Sterling can trigger a code enforcement nuisance notice, and Logan County's landfill can refuse the load outright.
Sterling's code enforcement division handles the nuisance ordinance covering refuse, rubbish and junk. Items stacked outside city dumpsters or along alleyways are not part of routine collection, and every day a violation continues counts as a separate offense.
City carts take tree limbs and brush only when cut to four inches in diameter and three feet long, with grass and leaves bagged. Oversized material must go to the Logan County landfill, or the city will load and haul it for a charge.
Since the Electronic Recycling Jobs Act took effect, televisions, monitors, computers, printers and similar devices cannot be landfilled anywhere in Colorado, because lead and other heavy metals leach into soil and groundwater. Haulers may not knowingly collect them for disposal.
During Sterling's April spring cleanup, refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are refused unless an approved reclamation center, such as a local appliance dealer, has certified them Freon free. Recovery must happen before the unit is accepted.
Colorado's Regulation 8 requires a certified inspector before demolition regardless of building age, and renovations crossing single-family trigger levels of fifty linear feet of pipe or thirty-two square feet of surface material need ten working days' notice to the state.
Non-exempt open burns inside Sterling city limits need a permit, must be open piles rather than barrels, and may contain only untreated wood, leaves, grass and weeds. Burning lumber, construction debris, tires or trash carries state civil penalties up to $10,000 per day.
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(678) 884-4738Only with a scheduled special pickup. The City of Sterling runs a special trash pickup every Wednesday for items that don't fit a container, placed at the curb or in the alley, and crews won't come onto private property. It runs $55 per truckload, arranged by calling the City Finance Department at (970) 522-9700.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Sterling starts at $75 for a single item, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the pickup fee for labor and hauling, and each extra item is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed upfront before booking. The city's own special pickup runs $55 per truckload.
Yes, same-day or next-day pickup is usually open when you book before noon. Enter your Sterling zip code during booking to see live availability for your exact address. Your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes before arrival so you aren't left waiting around.
Hazardous materials are the main exception. Loaders can take furniture, appliances, and general clutter, but not hazmat like paint, chemicals, or fuels, which need a specialist. The Logan County Landfill also inspects loads and reserves the right to reject unsuitable waste, so some items may require special handling.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and household goods may go to local charities like Goodwill on East Platte Avenue or the Cooperating Ministry Thrift Store on North 10th Avenue, depending on acceptance. Anything that can't be donated or recycled goes to the Logan County Landfill.
You book online or by phone, choose a date, and see an upfront price before confirming. On pickup day your Loaders call about 30 minutes ahead, then handle all the lifting and loading. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home, just leave the junk out with access notes at booking.
Mostly the pricing and booking flow. Traditional haulers charge by truckload and quote in person, so your price isn't locked until the truck is in your driveway. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before anyone arrives, which is often cheaper for single or two-item jobs.
Yes, the City of Sterling holds a Spring Cleanup each April, when residential trash customers can have items that are legally disposable at the Logan County Landfill collected. Exact dates are set each spring and announced through the city and local news. For anything outside that window, a paid service fills the gap.
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