How to get couches, mattresses, appliances and other bulky items picked up in US cities and counties.
Bulk trash pickup is almost never part of the weekly cart. Four patterns cover most places: you book an appointment, often with a yearly limit; the city comes on a set schedule; you set a few items out with regular trash; or you haul the load to a drop-off site that may charge by weight or item. Refrigerators, tires and construction debris often have their own rules. The city’s or hauler’s booking page decides.
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Atlanta
Single-family residents get 12 free bulk collections a year. Since February 16, 2026, bulk comes on your regular collection day, but each one must be booked at least one business day ahead in the collection tool or app, through @ATL311 or at 404-546-0311. One collection is up to 8 cubic yards, set out no earlier than 7 p.m. the night before. Up to four tires are taken, but other auto parts and building materials are refused. Each collection beyond 12 costs $349.96, and a booked pickup with nothing out still counts.
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Austin
Bulk and brush pickups are on demand, up to three appointments per service per calendar year, booked in the Austin Recycles app, online ↗ or through Austin 3-1-1 (512-974-2000). Bulk takes furniture, appliances with doors removed, carpet and up to eight car tires off their rims, set out by 5:30 a.m. in three piles. It refuses brush, household trash, hazardous materials, mirrors, remodeling debris and tires on rims. A supplemental bulk pickup beyond the three costs $184 plus disposal.
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Boerne
WM collects bulky items in Boerne once a month, during the second full week of the month, on your regular garbage day, with no call needed. Set the pile out by 7 a.m., up to 4 cubic yards. Furniture, mattresses, carpet cut into 4-foot bundles and appliances with the refrigerant removed are taken; tires, electronics, paint, batteries, construction debris and anything over 200 pounds are not. Brush goes out the same week in bundles no longer than 5 feet.
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Boston
Furniture and bikes go out with regular trash on your collection day. Mattresses and box springs are collected free by appointment for buildings of six units or fewer, up to 10 a year; Massachusetts bans them from disposal. Fridges, air conditioners, TVs and other special items need a booking on the Special Collection Items page ↗ or through 311: 5 items per appointment, 10 a year. Construction debris, auto parts, water heaters, dishwashers and large exercise equipment are not collected.
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Charlotte
Bulky items, from furniture, appliances and mattresses to TVs under 75 pounds and up to eight rimless tires, go by appointment only, booked online ↗, through CharMeck 311 or in the CLT+ app. Set them out by 6 a.m. on the scheduled day and no more than 24 hours before; unscheduled or badly prepared piles can bring a $150 fine. Refrigerators and freezers go empty with the doors removed, many items must be under 75 pounds, and long items must be cut in half. Contractor waste, concrete, drywall, shingles, yard waste, hazardous waste, gas tanks and central air units are refused.
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Chicago
There is no fixed bulk day. Before putting out a large item or an extra load of trash, arrange a bulk pickup with your ward’s Streets and Sanitation superintendent through your district sanitation office ↗ or 311. Remove doors or lids from refrigerators and freezers, and never pile items on or against the garbage cart, which is a fineable violation. Mattresses with bed bugs must be sealed in a plastic bag labeled as infested.
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Columbus
Bulk pickup is free, but nothing is collected unless you schedule it through the 311 Customer Service Center ↗ online or at (614) 645-3111. The city takes furniture, mattresses, carpet and appliances without refrigerants, such as dishwashers and washing machines, and refers residents to private haulers for what it cannot collect. Without an appointment, bulk items go free to the Alum Creek and Georgesville convenience centers, which refuse refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners; those go to SWACO.
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Dallas
Brush and bulky items go once a month in your collection week, shown on the Collection Schedules page ↗: set the pile just behind the curb Thursday to Sunday before that week. The limit is 10 cubic yards a month, and once a calendar year you can request up to 20 through 311 by the Sunday before. Construction debris, tires, electronics, paint and chemicals, and appliances with coolant or gas such as refrigerators and air conditioners are refused. Oversize piles or piles with refused items are usually collected and billed at $60 per 5 cubic yards on the utility bill. Furniture also goes free to the landfill or a transfer station with proof of Dallas residency.
Dallas trash pickup and recycling rules
Denver
Large Item Pickup needs no appointment: it comes every nine weeks on your regular day, and the lookup and app show your week. The limit is 5 large items plus 10 bags, out by 6 a.m.; items set out on any other day count as illegal dumping. Electronics, appliances, construction materials, paint, tires and auto parts are refused. Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners get a free pickup by appointment through 311.
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El Paso
El Paso has no free curbside bulk day. Book a special pickup with Environmental Services at 915-212-6000, weekdays 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.: $35 for up to 5 cubic yards and $7 for each extra yard, plus tax, on the El Paso Water bill. Appliances, furniture, mattresses, carpet, lumber and brush are taken; tires, electronics, concrete, dirt and gas cylinders are not. Items go out by 6 a.m., 5 feet from bins and other obstacles. Residents can also haul bulky items to one of five Citizen Collection Stations with a pass, a water bill and matching ID.
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Falls Church
Falls Church collects bulk items by special collection on Wednesdays, year-round except city holidays, for residential curbside customers only. Request it by noon Tuesday through the Recycle Coach app or 703-248-5160, option 1; American Disposal schedules the pickup and takes payment by phone. The fee is $75 per 2 cubic yards, $30 per appliance and $30 per TV. Items go at the curb by 7 a.m. Wednesday, with brush piles 5 feet from other items. Construction debris, contractor waste, tires, hazardous waste, wet paint, exercise equipment, safes and toilets are never collected.
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Fort Worth
Bulk waste goes at the curb once a month, in the week that starts on your area’s first, second, third or fourth Monday, out by 7 a.m. that Monday; the 2026 bulk collection schedule ↗ has the map. A pile set out at the wrong time, or with items the program does not take, is charged a collection rate. To skip the wait or the charge, take bulk waste free to a Drop-Off Station, which also takes refrigerators and air conditioners with the food removed; the Freon can stay in.
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Glendora
Single-family homes in Glendora get free, unlimited bulky item pickups from Athens Services, but only by appointment. Request one at least 24 hours before your collection day through the Athens Bulky Item Request form or at 855-557-1007, and set nothing out until Athens confirms. Furniture, mattresses, rugs, appliances including refrigerators, water heaters, plumbing fixtures and brush tied in bundles up to 4 feet and 35 pounds are taken. Car parts, construction debris, hazardous waste, anything over 60 pounds or larger than 4 by 8 feet, and extra bags of trash are not. TVs, computers and other electronics have their own free curbside pickup on trash day, scheduled a day ahead at 888-336-6100.
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Hillsborough County
There is no free curbside bulk day for county customers. Call Solid Waste Customer Service at 813-272-5680 before anything goes out to book a special curbside pickup: $30 an item for a mattress of any size, a bed frame and box spring, furniture, carpet, a grill without the tank, a TV under 50 inches or 10 bags of trash, and $50 for a refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer, dishwasher, stove, water heater or a TV of 50 inches and up. Or self-haul: each customer gets 10 cubic yards a year of free bulky waste and appliance disposal at the five Community Collection Centers, hand-unloaded, with a photo ID and a copy of the property tax bill, plus 12 tires a year. The Special Curbside Pickup for Bulky Items ↗ page lists every price.
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Honolulu
Bulky items go by appointment only, booked on ENV’s Bulky Item Pick Up Appointment ↗ page or at (808) 768-3200, option 0. Each address gets one appointment a month, weekly in Waikīkī, for up to five bulky items, plus up to two metal appliances on a separate appliance appointment. List every item, since crews leave anything not booked. Construction debris, dirt, large auto parts, household hazardous waste and regular trash are refused.
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Houston
Heavy trash goes every other month on your assigned day, up to six curbside collections a year; Find Your Schedule and HTX Collects show the date. Set items out between 6 p.m. the Friday before and 7 a.m. on the day, up to 8 cubic yards. Refrigerators and freezers need a certified technician’s tag showing the refrigerant was removed. Bagged garbage, electronics, paint, chemicals, shingles and contractor waste are refused, and a pile mixing refused items may be left entirely.
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Indianapolis
Heavy trash comes once a month on a day set by your address, shown by the same lookup as your trash day: up to two bulky items at the curb next to the cart. Bundled limbs 3 feet across and 3 feet long count as one item, and appliances without Freon, such as a stove or water heater, are accepted. Construction debris, tires and electronics are refused, and refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners with Freon need a pickup scheduled through Report a Trash Pickup Issue ↗ or at 317-327-4622. Extra heavy trash can go to the Citizens’ Transfer Station on Saturdays for $2 a carload or $5 an SUV or pickup load.
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Jacksonville
Bulk items go out on your bulk day: weekly with garbage in the city and Meridian areas, every other week in the Waste Pro area. They include furniture, mattresses and box springs, rolled carpet, fencing and treated wood; extra garbage is not bulk. Appliances, up to four tires and flat-panel TVs are picked up only by request on MyJax or at 630-CITY, out by 6 a.m. on the date assigned, with appliance doors removed or secured. Home project debris is limited to 1 cubic yard a week, or 2 every other week in the Waste Pro area, with no piece over 5 feet or 40 pounds, and contractors haul away their own.
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Joplin
From October 1, 2026, bulky items in Joplin are collected only by appointment. Call Republic Services at 800-431-1507 or use the form on its Joplin page. Each pickup is limited to 4 cubic yards and each home gets four pickups a year, with no extra charge inside the $17.42 base rate. Joplin residents can also take up to 2,000 pounds of bulky items, brush and limbs to the GFL Joplin Transfer Station, 3700 W. 7th Street, at a city-subsidized rate with a sewer bill and driver’s license, Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to noon. The Republic Services transfer station in Galena, Kansas, takes bulky items for a fee.
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King County (unincorporated)
The county does no curbside pickup of bulky items. WM collects mattresses, sofas, appliances and furniture by special arrangement at a price that varies: call 800-592-9995 or email pnwrsservices@wm.com. Or haul it to a county station, where garbage costs $40.25 minimum up to 320 pounds and mattresses cost $30 each to recycle at five stations. Appliances are not accepted as garbage; refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners cost $30 each to recycle.
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Knoxville
Knoxville collects up to five bulky items a week at the curb beside the garbage cart. Call 311 first to place a “bulky alert,” then set the items out; a separate truck comes within two business days. Furniture, appliances, tires off the rim and old trash cans qualify; construction debris, cardboard, refrigerators that have not been drained, and anything over 6 feet or too heavy for two workers do not. More than five items at once means nothing is collected and can bring a Codes Enforcement violation.
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Lafayette
Acadiana Waste Services collects bulky items in Lafayette every week on your regular collection day, with a separate truck, for homes in the City of Lafayette and unincorporated Lafayette Parish. Appliances, furniture, TVs, mattresses and up to five car tires a week go to the curb at least three feet from carts, mailboxes, yard waste and parked cars, with nothing overhead. No appointment is required, but AWS asks you to schedule through its contact form, customerservice@acadianawaste.com or 337-205-7710. Bagged items, construction debris, hazardous waste and fencing are not collected.
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Los Angeles
Bulky pickup is free and unlimited, on your regular trash day. Request it at least one business day ahead through MyLA311 or at 1-800-773-2489, with a list of what you are putting out. Furniture, mattresses and box springs, toilets, carpet, TVs and computers are taken; auto parts, concrete, dirt, paint, chemicals and commercial appliances are refused. Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, water heaters and air conditioners go through LASAN’s separate free Metal Appliance Pickup, booked one business day ahead with refrigerator doors removed. Free bulky drop-off days remain on Saturday, November 21 and Saturday, December 12, 2026, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at five LASAN sites. Multi-family residents get unlimited curbside bulky pickup too, funded by the Multi-Family Bulky Item Fee.
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Miami-Dade County
Each DSWM household gets two bulky pickups a year of up to 25 cubic yards each, paid for by the annual waste fee. Book first through Schedule a Bulky Waste Pickup ↗, the MDC Solid Waste app or 311; appointments open 30 days ahead, and the pile goes out no more than three days early. Mattresses must be sealed in a plastic mattress bag. Electronics, tires, central air units, chemicals and any item over 150 pounds are refused; extra loads cost $32 per cubic yard with an Excess Yardage Approval form.
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Middlebury
There is no curbside pickup; residents with a current permit sticker haul bulky items to the transfer station at 1 Service Road. Bulky waste and construction debris are weighed: $10 flat up to 200 pounds, then 7 cents a pound. Clean, dry mattresses and box springs go free, wet or stained ones cost $50 each, and refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers $10 each. Scrap metal and electronics are free.
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Minneapolis
As part of garbage service, crews take up to two large items a week, set out by 6 a.m. with a note on each saying “For Solid Waste.” Furniture goes on garbage day; appliances, TVs, mattresses and metal items go in your recycling week. Building materials, tires, auto parts, dirt, concrete, liquids, hazardous waste and rechargeable batteries are never collected. City garbage customers also get six free cleanup vouchers a year for the South Transfer Station.
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Nashville
The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office picks up bulky items on request: the homeowner or tenant calls 615-880-3897 with the item list, sets items at the front curb by 6:30 a.m. on the date given, and crews then have up to seven business days. Furniture, mattresses, appliances, TVs, lumber and construction debris are taken; tires, chemicals, paint cans, propane tanks, bagged items and brush are refused. At a convenience center, one bulk item and three bags of trash are free per day, and mattresses cost $12 each.
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New Bedford
Capitol Waste Services picks up bulky waste, white goods and mattresses at the curb in New Bedford by appointment at 855-533-3400 or through its online scheduler, and only on your regular trash day. Each appointment takes up to 3 bulky items (sofas, stuffed chairs, area rugs) and up to 3 white goods such as appliances, TVs, monitors, air conditioners and large metal items. Mattresses and box springs cost $10 each, one of each per unit every six months. Construction debris such as sinks, cabinets, doors, windows, carpet and sheetrock is not collected.
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Newburgh
In Newburgh bulk items go on Wednesday by appointment. Call Sanitation at 845-565-1082 or DPW at 845-565-3297 before 3 p.m. Tuesday and prepay in person, cash or money order, at 88 Pierces Road: $10 for small furniture and mattresses, $20 for large furniture, washers, dryers and TVs under 35 inches, $30 for refrigerators, air conditioners and larger TVs; tires $0.50 to $30 by size, dropped at the DPW garage. A free citywide program runs three dates in 2026, the next on Wednesday, September 30 and Wednesday, December 16: register by 3 p.m. the Friday before, up to five items per household. No bulk pickup on a Wednesday after a Monday or Tuesday holiday.
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New York City
Large items go free at the curb, up to six per collection day, between 6 p.m. and midnight the evening before; DSNY no longer takes appointments. Mostly metal or rigid plastic items go on the recycling day and everything else on the trash-only day, and mattresses must be sealed in a plastic bag. Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners need a free CFC removal appointment ↗ first. A contractor’s waste needs a private dumpster, and car tires are illegal in the trash.
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Painesville
Bulk items are part of the weekly service from Major Waste Disposal: furniture, mattresses, carpets and appliances without refrigerant go at the curb on your regular collection day at no extra charge under City Ordinance 955.10. Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers are collected on a designated day after you call Major Waste at 440-254-4929, also at no added cost. Tires, auto parts, construction debris, rocks and soil are never collected at the curb; the Lake County Solid Waste Facility takes a car load for $5 and a pickup load for $10. A whole-house cleanout is paid service.
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Philadelphia
Each household may set out up to two large items with the trash on its collection day, such as a sofa or a mattress sealed in plastic; an unwrapped mattress is left and can bring a fine. The Department of Sanitation’s Bulk Collection Program ↗ takes appliances with the doors removed, metal-frame furniture, flat-screen TVs and up to four rimless car tires: four items per appointment and one appointment a week, booked online up to a month ahead, for buildings of up to six units. It refuses household trash, mattresses, hazardous materials, auto parts, construction materials and toilets. A convenience center takes up to two bulk items or appliances a day.
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Phoenix
Bulk trash is by appointment only, four per customer per calendar year, booked on the Bulk Trash page ↗ or at 602-262-6251 at least three business days ahead. One pile of up to 10 cubic yards goes out no more than seven days early and by 5:30 a.m. Household trash, hazardous waste, tires, refrigerant appliances, window and mirror glass, concrete and larger construction debris are refused. Appliances can go by paid curbside pickup instead: $30 for up to five without refrigerant, $25 each with refrigerant.
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Portland
Your garbage company picks up large items from the curb at City-set rates: call at least a week ahead for a quote and a date, and it must come within seven days. Each trip costs $18, plus $10 to $29 per item by size, $6 per appliance or e-waste item and $51 per refrigerator, freezer or portable air conditioner. Items go out by 6 a.m., never more than 24 hours early. Mattresses go free to Bye Bye Mattress sites.
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Raleigh
Nothing large goes to the curb in Raleigh without a call to 919-996-3245, which books one of three pickups: a $35 Bulky Load for furniture, mattresses and other household items too big for the cart, a $70 Special Load for appliances, exercise equipment and overflow bags, or a free E-waste pickup of up to four items on Tuesdays. Each load holds up to 4 cubic yards and is billed in full on the next utility bill; cancel by noon the business day before for a refund. Items set out before the booking can be fined, and tires, car parts, remodeling debris, glass and batteries are never collected.
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Saint Paul
Since July 1, 2026, bulky items need no appointment: set them next to the garbage cart by 6 a.m. on your regular garbage day, each labeled “bulky,” and a separate truck collects them within two business days. Each garbage cart includes 12 bulky items per calendar year; more cost $30 each plus tax. Construction debris, tires, yard waste and extra garbage bags are refused. Mattresses never go out as bulky items: Second Chance Recycling picks them up free at 612-787-3770.
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San Antonio
Brush and bulky items go at the curb twice a year each, in separate piles; a door hanger names your week 7 to 10 days ahead, and nothing goes out before it. Each pile is up to 8 cubic yards, ready by 7 a.m. on the Monday of that week. The bulky pile takes furniture, mattresses, appliances with the doors off, TVs and up to six rimless car tires, and refuses brush, garbage, hazardous waste and construction materials; a mixed, blocked or late pile can bring a fine of up to $2,000 a day. An out-of-cycle pickup costs $50 for up to 4 cubic yards, and the four bulky waste collection centers take items free all year for customers who pay the environmental fee.
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San Diego
The City has no bulky item pickup, and furniture and appliances are not allowed in the bins; bulky item requests through the Residential Waste Collection Services Portal are planned from July 2027. Mattresses and box springs go free, with no limit, to the Mattress Collection Site at the Miramar Landfill entrance, weekdays 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; wet, soiled or bedbug-infested ones go in the trash. Furniture and other large items can be hauled to the Miramar Landfill, where a car or pickup of general refuse from inside the City pays a flat $75, and bulky or oversized loads $108.
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San Francisco
Recology’s Bulky Item Collection is free with an active Recology account: two pickups a calendar year for buildings of five units or fewer, and one per unit in larger buildings. Book on the Request Bulky Item Collection ↗ page or at 415-330-1300 at least two weeks ahead, for up to 10 items. Garbage, yard waste, construction debris, pianos, anything over 100 pounds, tires and hazardous waste are refused.
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San Jose
Junk Pickup is free for owners and renters, with no limit on appointments and up to 12 items each, booked at 311.SanJoseCA.gov ↗, in the San José 311 app, at 3-1-1 or (408) 535-3500. Appointments fall on your regular collection day, and items go in the street by the curb no more than 24 hours ahead. It takes furniture, mattresses laid flat, refrigerators and other appliances with the doors taped, TVs, boxed electronics and car tires, and refuses glass and mirrors, construction debris, hazardous waste, items with bed bugs and central air units. Apartment and condo residents book through their property manager or GreenTeam of San José.
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Seattle
Bulky items go through SPU’s paid Special Item Pickup, booked online or at (206) 684-3000 by the utility account holder. Furniture, mattresses, appliances and TVs cost $31 each, up to 300 pounds, and refrigerators and freezers with CFCs $39.25 each, billed on the utility bill. Items go out by 7:00 a.m. on your next regular garbage day, and only after SPU confirms.
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Washington, DC
Book through 311 first. DPW takes up to seven items per appointment, set out where your trash goes between 6:30 p.m. the night before and 6 a.m. Appliances need their doors removed, and mattresses and toilets must be wrapped in plastic. Renovation debris, electronics, hazardous waste, tires, bagged trash and yard waste are refused; up to four tires go to the Fort Totten Transfer Station.
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Wichita
There is no city bulk pickup, because Wichita has no city trash service. Ask your permitted hauler first: Allen & Sons collects bulky items and brush bundled in 4-foot lengths for an extra fee arranged in advance, and the other haulers quote by phone. Or haul it yourself: Sedgwick County points residents to the Waste Connections transfer stations at 4300 W 37th St N and 5550 W 55th St S, which charge by weight plus $25 per mattress or box spring, $8.25 per passenger tire and $40 for a freon appliance, and to Brooks Landfill at 4100 N West Street, where mattresses cost $20, freon-free appliances $10, freon items $50 and car tires $10. Neither takes household trash.