Bags, boxes and the last things left to clear, gone from the curb. Choose what’s going, see your exact price and book by 2pm for same-day pickup. You don’t need to be home.
Two bags. One filled box. Count what goes, then book it together.
Finish clearing the space
The last few things still deserve a pickup.
You have decided what is going. Now give those bags and boxes a pickup day, with a price you can see before anyone arrives.
The move is nearly done.
Book the unwanted bags and boxes left after packing. Choose an available pickup day before you hand back the keys, and arrange to have them outside.
The clear-out can be finished.
You do not need a whole house of junk. Select the bags, boxes and larger items you actually have. Your combined price is shown online.
You want to know it is handled.
When the next collection does not fit your plans, choose a Dropcurb pickup day. Updates keep you informed, and completion photos show when the booked items are gone.
A few simple choices turn a mixed pile into a clear booking. No need to estimate how much of a truck it might fill.
Filled bags and boxes
Count each trash bag or filled household box. Books and media go by the box. Clothes, bedding and shoes go by the filled bag. Toys packed together have a Box of toys choice. Ask us about unusually heavy or oversized bags and boxes first.
Empty cardboard and containers
Empty cardboard is a different choice: choose single empty boxes or tied bundles of 10 flattened boxes. Compacted bales have their own weight-based choices and require loading-dock access. A Storage bin choice covers the empty bin itself; ask us to confirm the contents if they are going too.
Furniture and other larger items
Add the actual larger item alongside your bags and boxes, such as a sofa, chair or mattress. It has its own price and preparation. Keep construction materials and items needing special handling out of ordinary household bags.
Bulk junk removal prices in Kent
First item / additional item
Trash bag$59 / $10
Filled household box$59 / $15
Bag of clothes & bedding$59 / $10
Empty cardboard box$59 / $5
10 flattened cardboard boxes$79 / $20
Box of toys$89 / $29
Dumpster Bag$300 / $250
The highest first-item price applies once. Every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
You handle sorting and getting things out of the home or building. We load and haul away the items on your booking from an accessible outdoor spot.
Book by 2pm at the pickup address for same-day pickup, using the dates shown at checkout. Pickup is booked for a day, not an exact arrival time. Confirm any short building-access window with us before booking.
Your place. One easy pickup plan.
A house, a condo or an apartment. Choose an accessible outdoor spot that works for your property. You arrange the move outside; we take it from there.
Add the bags, boxes and separate larger items, then choose an available day. Have an unusual pile or uncertain contents? Send a photo before booking so we can help with the choices.
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Make the handoff easy.
Bag or box small household items as much as possible. Keep the booked items together, separate from anything staying. Follow your confirmation for when they need to be outside and accessible.
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Show us what goes.
Add photos and clear pickup-location notes on your order page. You do not need to be home when everything is outside and accessible. We send pickup updates and completion photos.
You’re in the loop. Until it’s gone.
Confirmation when you book. A heads-up before arrival. Photos when it’s done.
Kent runs a free Spring and Fall Curbside Clean-Up for residential households inside city limits, with extra garbage and extra yard waste placed at the curb on the regular yard waste collection day. Each stream is limited to ten units, and tires, scrap metal, hazardous waste, appliances and furniture are not accepted.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. No charge to a residential household inside Kent city limits that already has the required garbage service, with extra garbage limited to ten units and yard waste limited to ten units and every container under sixty pounds.
When & how
Put everything at the curb by 7 a.m. on your regular yard waste collection day during the spring week of April 6 to 10, 2026 or the fall week of November 2 to 6, 2026. If the regular garbage truck does not take the material, another truck will come for it, and a household whose refuse is missed calls Republic Services at 206-682-9735.
Get it ready
Bag extra garbage, box it within three feet five inches on each side or use a can of thirty-two gallons or smaller, and keep each container under sixty pounds, because loose trash is not collected. Keep yard waste separate from garbage in bundles, cans, boxes, paper bags or compostable bags with no plastic bags, under sixty pounds and no more than four feet long, tie branches with natural fiber rope or twine, and put food waste only in the contractor cart.
Republic Services collects mattresses, furniture and other bulky items from the curb for a fee when the pickup is scheduled in advance with the hauler, and the 2026 residential rate sheet prices the on-call items by type, with white goods other than refrigerators, sofas and chairs and mattresses in one price group and refrigerators, freezers and console televisions in a higher one.
City cost & eligibility
From $79.89 per item for the on-call bulky item collection, with white goods other than refrigerators, sofas and chairs and mattresses at $79.89 each and refrigerators, freezers and console televisions at $119.80 each on the Republic Services residential rate sheet effective January 1, 2026. A household that schedules the pickup with Republic Services at 206-682-9735 and pays the published item charge, because the free curbside clean-up refuses appliances and furniture.
When & how
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 to learn more about the bulky item service and schedule a pickup, then put the items out on the day the hauler gives you.
Get it ready
Keep the load to the items the hauler names for the service. Appliances and furniture are refused at the free curbside clean-up, so the on-call pickup is the curbside route for them, and ask the hauler about anything that is not on the sheet before the truck comes.
Furniture and sofas are refused at the free Spring and Fall Curbside Clean-Up, so they go on the on-call bulky item collection that Republic Services runs for a fee, which the 2026 residential rate sheet prices for sofas and chairs by the item.
City cost & eligibility
From $79.89 per item, with sofas and chairs listed at $79.89 each on the Republic Services residential rate sheet effective January 1, 2026. A household that schedules the on-call pickup with Republic Services at 206-682-9735 and pays the published item charge; the free curbside clean-up refuses furniture.
When & how
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 to arrange the pickup and put the piece at the curb on the day the hauler gives you.
Get it ready
Do not set a couch out during the clean-up week expecting collection, because the clean-up refuses furniture. Ask the hauler about a sleeper sofa, a sectional or a piece with a mechanism before the pickup is scheduled, and keep the piece whole and reachable at the curb.
A mattress and box spring go either on a Republic Services on-call bulky item pickup for a fee or to a free city recycling collection event, where the Saturday events accept mattresses and box springs but not futons. The free curbside clean-up refuses furniture, so it is not the route for a mattress.
City cost & eligibility
From $79.89 per item on the on-call bulky item collection, with mattresses listed at $79.89 each on the Republic Services residential rate sheet effective January 1, 2026. A household that schedules the on-call pickup with Republic Services at 206-682-9735 and pays the published item charge, or a household that brings the set to a free Saturday recycling collection event, where a mattress and box spring are accepted without futons.
When & how
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 for the on-call pickup, or bring the set to a Saturday recycling collection event on March 7, June 13 or October 10, 2026 and confirm the event hours with the city before traveling.
Get it ready
Keep the set out of the clean-up week, where furniture is refused, and keep a futon out of the Saturday recycling event, where only mattresses and box springs are accepted. Ask the hauler about a mattress that is still wet or damaged before it goes on the on-call pickup.
A small appliance two feet by two feet by two feet or smaller and under thirty-five pounds goes on top of the recycling cart at no charge, a larger appliance goes on the Republic Services on-call bulky item pickup for a fee, and a Saturday recycling collection event takes appliances and CFC appliances free.
City cost & eligibility
From $79.89 per item on the on-call bulky item collection, with white goods other than refrigerators at $79.89 each and refrigerators, freezers and console televisions at $119.80 each on the Republic Services residential rate sheet effective January 1, 2026. A small appliance two feet by two feet by two feet or smaller and under thirty-five pounds goes on top of the recycling cart at no charge, a Saturday recycling collection event takes appliances and CFC appliances at no charge, and a bulky appliance uses the on-call pickup with the published item charge.
When & how
Put a qualifying small appliance on top of the recycling cart on the collection day, call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 for the on-call pickup, or bring appliances and CFC appliances to a Saturday recycling collection event.
Get it ready
Keep a refrigerator or freezer out of the garbage cart and off the clean-up week, and tell the hauler whether the unit still holds refrigerant, because the county charges a refrigerant appliance by the unit at its recycling stations. A CFC appliance such as an air conditioner, refrigerator or freezer is not accepted in the scrap metal collection at a Friday mini event.
Exercise equipment is built mostly of steel, so the metal frame has a free scrap metal route at a Friday mini recycling event, and anything that will not go as scrap metal is a bulky item that Republic Services can collect from the curb for a fee.
City cost & eligibility
The city publishes no exercise equipment rate, so confirm the route with Republic Services at 206-682-9735 for the on-call bulky item pickup, or bring the metal frame to a Friday mini recycling event, where scrap metal including iron, steel, aluminum, brass and copper is accepted at no charge.
When & how
Scrap metal is collected at the Friday mini events from 9 a.m. to noon on April 10, May 8, July 10, August 14 and September 18, 2026, and the on-call pickup is scheduled with Republic Services at 206-682-9735.
Get it ready
Take the batteries off the machine and drain oil and gas from anything with a small engine before it goes to the scrap metal collection, and keep upholstered or plastic pieces out of the scrap pile because that stream takes items that are half metal or more. Ask the hauler about a treadmill or an elliptical before the on-call pickup.
Garbage goes out every week and recycling alternates with yard and food waste every other week in the blue and green carts included in the rate. During the Spring and Fall Curbside Clean-Up, put up to ten units of extra garbage and ten units of yard waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on the regular yard waste day, in bags, in boxes three feet five inches on each side or in cans of thirty-two gallons or smaller, under sixty pounds each, with loose trash left out of the pile.
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 for the on-call bulky item collection, which is how a couch, a refrigerator, a mattress set or another large item leaves the curb for a fee, then put the item out on the day the hauler gives you. Keep appliances and furniture out of the free clean-up week, and ask the hauler about anything that is not on its bulky item sheet before the truck comes.
Split the load between the two event types. A Saturday event at Hogan Park or Canyon Ridge Middle School takes appliances, CFC appliances, batteries, bulky yard debris, mattresses and box springs without futons, porcelain, propane tanks, scrap metal, styrofoam and tires without rims, with concrete, brick and rock in the summer only and passenger tires in the spring and fall only. A Friday mini event from 9 a.m. to noon takes televisions, monitors, computers and the rest of the electronics list, documents for shredding within four legal boxes or five paper bags, and scrap metal. Confirm the Saturday event hours with the city before traveling.
Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station at 18800 Orillia Road S in Tukwila is the closest disposal site to Kent, open around the clock Monday through Thursday, from midnight to 11:30 p.m. on Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the weekend, with the recycling area open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays. Vehicles and trailers together may not exceed forty feet, payment is by credit card, cash or Apple Pay, the twenty-five dollar unsecured load fee applies, and cardboard, clean wood, scrap metal and yard waste must be sorted for recycling. Televisions are not accepted for disposal and hazardous waste goes to the Factoria facility instead.
Use a permitted, accessible outdoor spot. Arrange the move out of your home, keep shared access clear and follow your confirmation’s readiness instructions. Check with your building about access or staging limits before booking.
Republic Services as the City of Kent contracted hauler, with the King County Solid Waste Division and the Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station
Use the free Spring and Fall Curbside Clean-Up
A household inside Kent city limits with extra bagged garbage and extra yard waste that fits within ten units of each.
Cost & conditions
No charge. No charge to a residential household inside city limits that already has the required garbage service, with ten units of extra garbage and ten units of yard waste and each container under sixty pounds.
Arrange it
Put the material at the curb by 7 a.m. on your regular yard waste collection day during the spring week of April 6 to 10, 2026 or the fall week of November 2 to 6, 2026.
No tires, scrap metal, hazardous waste, appliances or furniture, no loose trash, containers no larger than thirty-two gallons or a box three feet five inches on each side, nothing over sixty pounds, and no plastic bags in the yard waste.
Republic Services as the City of Kent contracted hauler, with the King County Solid Waste Division and the Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station
Book the on-call bulky item pickup
A household with a couch, a mattress set, an appliance or another large item that the free clean-up refuses.
Cost & conditions
From $79.89 per item on the on-call bulky item collection, with white goods other than refrigerators, sofas, chairs and mattresses at $79.89 each and refrigerators, freezers and console televisions at $119.80 each on the residential rate sheet effective January 1, 2026. A household that schedules with Republic Services at 206-682-9735 and pays the published item charge.
Arrange it
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735, tell the agent what is going out, and put it at the curb on the day the hauler gives you.
Item types and prices follow the hauler's 2026 residential rate sheet, the free curbside clean-up refuses appliances and furniture, and anything the hauler does not accept has to go to a King County transfer station instead.
Republic Services as the City of Kent contracted hauler, with the King County Solid Waste Division and the Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station
Drop off at a free recycling collection event
A household with electronics, appliances, CFC appliances, mattresses and box springs, scrap metal, tires, batteries, propane tanks, porcelain, styrofoam, bulky yard debris, documents for shredding or paint.
Cost & conditions
No charge. No charge for a resident to drop off the material each event accepts, with paint accepted under the Washington State Paint Stewardship Program in containers of five gallons or less.
Arrange it
Bring the load to a Saturday event on March 7, June 13 or October 10, 2026, to a Friday mini event from 9 a.m. to noon on the 2026 dates, or to a paint only event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hogan Park on March 14 or October 17, 2026, and confirm the Saturday event hours with the city first.
Televisions and monitors go to a Friday mini event because the Saturday events do not take them, a futon is not accepted with a mattress, concrete, brick and rock come only to the summer event, tires are passenger only, without rims and limited to ten per vehicle in the spring and fall, and scrap metal must be half metal or more with fluids and batteries removed.
Republic Services as the City of Kent contracted hauler, with the King County Solid Waste Division and the Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station
Self haul to the Bow Lake station
A household with construction and demolition material, a load the clean-up refuses, tires or extra recycling.
Cost & conditions
From $40.25 for the King County garbage minimum for the first three hundred twenty pounds with a per-ton rate above that, a charitable organization rate below the standard one, a charge per unit for a refrigerant appliance, a charge per item for mattress recycling at the stations that recycle mattresses and a twenty-five dollar unsecured load fee. A customer who lives or does business in King County's service area, paying by credit card, cash or Apple Pay at the scale house, or a household with a ProviderOne, EBT or ORCA LIFT card that takes the Cleanup LIFT discount of twenty dollars off each type of waste on each visit.
Arrange it
Secure the load, drive to 18800 Orillia Road S in Tukwila during posted hours, and pay at the scale house before unloading.
Vehicles and trailers together may not exceed forty feet, televisions, computers, cell phones and tablets are not accepted for disposal, hazardous waste goes to the Factoria facility, metal scrap, clean wood and yard waste must be sorted for recycling, and a load in a hydraulic or mechanized dump bed or in a dump trailer is refused unless the construction and demolition material is under twenty percent of it.
County recycling and transfer station closest to Kent
Bow Lake Recycling & Transfer Station
18800 Orillia Road S, Tukwila, WA 98188
Garbage disposal plus recycling for commingled paper, cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, cups, jugs, tubs, pots, food containers, clamshells, trays and lids three inches or larger, appliances, cardboard, clean wood, scrap metal, mercury containing light bulbs and tubes, textiles and yard and food waste.
Televisions are not accepted for disposal, major appliances are recycled rather than disposed, cardboard, clean wood, scrap metal and yard waste must be sorted out for recycling, hazardous waste goes to a hazardous waste collection site, metal scrap is not accepted in the garbage, clean wood and yard waste are not accepted for disposal from self haul customers, tires are not accepted from businesses and are limited to four per customer with no large truck tires, and vehicles and trailers together may not exceed forty feet.
Open around the clock Monday through Thursday, from midnight to 11:30 p.m. on Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, with the recycling area open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the weekend, and closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
From $40.25 for the King County garbage minimum for the first three hundred twenty pounds, with a per-ton rate above that, a charitable organization rate below the standard one, a thirty dollar per unit charge for a refrigerant appliance, a thirty dollar per item mattress recycling charge, a twenty-five dollar unsecured load fee and no charge for recyclables only. A customer who lives or does business in King County's service area, paying by credit card, cash or Apple Pay, or a household with a ProviderOne, EBT or ORCA LIFT card that takes the Cleanup LIFT discount of twenty dollars off each type of waste on each visit.
Selected customer reviews. Counts checked September 2026.
Before you book
A few things worth knowing.
Bulk junk removal, from choosing your item to pickup day in Kent.
How much does bulk junk removal cost in Kent?+
A trash bag is $59 as the first item and $10 additional. A filled household box is $59 as the first item. Add your actual items and quantities to see the combined price before booking. Loading, transportation and disposal are included; any applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
Can you pick up bags of junk today?+
Book by 2pm in the pickup address’s local time for same-day pickup. Available dates appear at checkout. Have the booked bags and boxes outside and accessible according to your confirmation. You receive pickup updates and completion photos; the booking is for a day rather than an exact arrival time.
Do I count every object inside a bag or box?+
No. Count the filled bags or boxes using the matching choice. Books and media go in Filled household box; clothes, bedding and shoes go in Bag of clothes & bedding; packed toys have a Box of toys choice. Empty cardboard is separate, with individual empty boxes and bundles of 10 flattened boxes. Heavy, oversized or unusual contents need a photo review before booking.
Can you pick up a small loose pile of household junk?+
Yes. Estimate how many trash bags the small household pile would fill, and bag or box as much as possible. Select furniture and other larger items separately. There is no extra charge just because the pile is loose. Send a photo first if the count or contents are unclear. A household Dumpster Bag choice does not accept construction debris.
Can I book bags, boxes and furniture together?+
Yes. Select the bags and boxes, then add each larger item using its own catalog choice. The booking shows one combined price for the selected items. Move everything to an accessible outdoor spot before pickup; indoor carrying and sorting are not included. Keep anything you want to retain apart from the booked items and identify what goes in your photos and notes.
How much can I put out during the Kent curbside clean-up?+
Ten units of extra garbage and ten units of yard waste, each container under sixty pounds, placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on your regular yard waste collection day during the spring week of April 6 to 10, 2026 or the fall week of November 2 to 6, 2026. Bag the garbage, box it within three feet five inches on each side or use a can of thirty-two gallons or smaller, because loose trash is not collected.Official guidance
What is not accepted in the Kent curbside clean-up?+
Tires, scrap metal, hazardous waste, appliances and furniture. Appliances and furniture go on a Republic Services on-call pickup for a fee, scheduled at 206-682-9735, and the same line takes a missed collection report. Extra items placed at the curb outside that week are charged as extra garbage or extra yard waste.Official guidance
How do I schedule a bulky item pickup in Kent?+
Call Republic Services at 206-682-9735 to learn more about the service and schedule the pickup, then put the items out on the day the hauler gives you. The hauler states that it can collect mattresses, furniture and other bulky items for a fee, and the free curbside clean-up is not the route for those because it refuses appliances and furniture.Official guidance
Will Kent take a couch at the curb?+
Not in the free clean-up, which refuses furniture, but yes on an on-call bulky item pickup that Republic Services runs for a fee. Call 206-682-9735 to arrange it, put the piece out on the day the hauler gives you, and ask about a sleeper sofa, a sectional or a piece with a mechanism before the pickup is scheduled.Official guidance
How do I get rid of a mattress in Kent?+
Either on a Republic Services on-call bulky item pickup for a fee, scheduled at 206-682-9735, or free at a Saturday recycling collection event, where a mattress and box spring are accepted but a futon is not. The Saturday events in 2026 fall on March 7, June 13 and October 10, and the free curbside clean-up is not the route because it refuses furniture.Official guidance
Where do refrigerators and other appliances go in Kent?+
A small appliance two feet by two feet by two feet or smaller and under thirty-five pounds goes on top of the recycling cart at no charge, and a larger appliance goes on a Republic Services on-call pickup for a fee at 206-682-9735. A Saturday recycling collection event takes appliances and CFC appliances free, while a CFC appliance such as an air conditioner, refrigerator or freezer is not accepted in the scrap metal collection at a Friday mini event, and King County recycles major appliances at its transfer stations.Official guidance
How do I get rid of a treadmill in Kent?+
The metal frame has a free route as scrap metal at a Friday mini recycling event, from 9 a.m. to noon on April 10, May 8, July 10, August 14 and September 18, 2026, and anything that will not go as scrap metal is a bulky item that Republic Services can collect from the curb for a fee at 206-682-9735. Take the batteries off the machine, drain oil and gas from anything with a small engine, and keep upholstered or plastic pieces out of the scrap pile.Official guidance
What does Kent charge for garbage and bulky item disposal?+
Garbage rates are set together by King County and Republic Services and adjusted every January 1, so the monthly amount follows the size of the garbage cart and is confirmed with the hauler at 206-682-9735. The free Spring and Fall Curbside Clean-Up takes ten units of extra garbage and ten units of yard waste at no charge, a year round bulky item collection is priced by the item on the hauler's 2026 residential rate sheet, and a self haul load at a King County station goes by the county fee schedule with a twenty-five dollar unsecured load fee and a Cleanup LIFT discount of twenty dollars off each type of waste on each visit for a customer with a ProviderOne, EBT or ORCA LIFT card.Official guidance
What will Kent not take at the curb?+
Tires, scrap metal, hazardous waste, appliances and furniture are refused at the free curbside clean-up, and construction and demolition material is refused there too. Appliances and furniture go on a Republic Services on-call pickup for a fee, hazardous waste goes to the King County facility in Factoria, and construction and demolition material is self hauled to a King County transfer station such as Bow Lake in Tukwila.Official guidance
Who handles garbage and disposal in Kent?+
Republic Services collects under contract with the city and handles customer service, billing and service changes on the residential line at 206-682-9735 and the commercial line at 253-872-7220, while King County runs the disposal side through the Bow Lake Recycling and Transfer Station in Tukwila and its solid waste information line at 206-477-4466. The city's environmental pages point a missed pickup at the hauler, and the county runs the household hazardous waste facility in Factoria.Official guidance
Are there recycling or bulky item events in Kent?+
The city runs free recycling collection events every year: Saturday events in spring, summer and fall that take appliances, CFC appliances, batteries, bulky yard debris, mattresses and box springs without futons, porcelain, propane tanks, scrap metal, styrofoam and tires without rims, and Friday mini events that take televisions, computers, monitors and the rest of the electronics list along with documents for shredding and scrap metal. Paint only events run twice a year under the Washington State Paint Stewardship Program, and the year round bulky item route is the Republic Services on-call pickup at 206-682-9735.Official guidance
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Choose your bags, boxes and larger items. See the price and book a day that works.