Junk Removal in Tempe, AZ

Tempe's bulk trash and green organics pickup is free, and it comes every other month by area, A through H, on a schedule the city posts each year. Items have to be out by 6 a.m. on the Monday of your week, and no more than 10 days early. Holidays don't shift it. The limit is 10 cubic yards, with trash and green organics in two piles 4 feet apart, either at the curb or in the alley depending on your route. The city hands out free schedule magnets at its recreation centers, and one on the fridge saves a lot of guessing.

The program takes furniture that can't be donated, mattresses, bagged trash, washers, microwaves and small appliances without Freon. It won't take refrigerators or anything else with Freon, glass or mirrors, dirt, rock or concrete, or construction debris like drywall, flooring, carpet and roofing. And if a landscaper did the trimming, those clippings can't go in your green pile.

So the old fridge goes through appliance removal, with the refrigerant recovered at a facility set up for it. The carpet and tile from a rental refresh are construction debris removal. Branches a tree service cut and left in a heap go with yard waste removal, no matter who did the cutting. A big dresser mirror simply rides along with the rest of the load.

Between bulk weeks, Tempe offers a call-in special pickup for a fee, and the city holds Zero Waste Day events each quarter. Tempe curbside and alley customers can also take up to 1,000 pounds a month, free, to the regional transfer station near Sky Harbor in Phoenix. It's open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays until 2 p.m., safety vests are required, and any appliance with Freon carries a fee.

Those options work when your timing lines up with them. A lease that ends mid-month often doesn't. When the move-out date is fixed, we come on a day that matches it, carry from a second-floor unit or a back bedroom, and leave the floor swept for the walkthrough.

Just 42.3 percent of Tempe homes are owner-occupied, the lowest share of any city we serve, and households average fewer than two and a half people. That's a lot of apartments, roommates and move-out days, and a lot of couches, desks and bed frames that don't make the trip to the next place.

Furniture removal takes the sofa down the stairs and out to the trailer. The mattress nobody wants to tie to a car roof is a quick mattress removal. For the move itself, local moving can carry the keepers between places in the Valley while the rest goes with us. Landlords and property managers turning a unit book the same way tenants do, and if you can't be there, mention it when you call and we'll work out access.

Tempe has plenty of longtime owners too, and their garages fill up the same way anyone's do. A full garage gets the same treatment as a move-out: you point at what stays, and we load the rest.

From the streets around Kiwanis Park off Mill Avenue to the neighborhoods near Tempe Town Lake, a Tempe address is a short trip from Gilbert. Call or text with what's going and your move-out date if there is one, and add photos if you can. We confirm the price on site before anything moves, then load, sweep and go. What we haul gets sorted for donation, recycling and licensed disposal.

Next door, Phoenix now runs bulk trash by appointment only, and Mesa, on Tempe's east side, charges by the load for its bulk pickup. Every city we work in is on the service areas page, and everything we haul is on our junk removal page.