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Junk Removal guides for Tucson property owners
Plain-language, local, no sales pitch. Written for Tucson and Pima County conditions.
Los Reales landfill fees: what a self-haul really costs
The city publishes every fee at the gate. The part nobody publishes is what your Saturday and your truck are worth, and that is the number that decides it.
Brush and Bulky vs hiring a hauler in Tucson
If the free city pickup will do the job, this site will tell you so. Here is exactly what it does, so you can decide before you pay anyone.
What junk haulers can’t take in Tucson, and where it goes instead
A hauler’s truck ends at the Los Reales gate, and the gate has a list. Everything on it needs a different address, and most of those addresses are on the same campus.
Clearing a house before a sale or a move in Tucson: the order that works
Every step in a Tucson house-clearing has a calendar attached — a donation pickup takes days, the hazardous-waste drop-off opens three mornings a week, the free city pickup comes twice a year. Sequence them and the truck is the easy part.
Monsoon and storm debris cleanup in Tucson
The National Weather Service defines Tucson’s monsoon as June 15 through September 30. It brings more than half the year’s rain in about eight weeks, and most of the wind damage a Tucson yard will ever see.
Where to donate in Tucson before the truck comes
Half of most cleanouts is still usable, and four organizations in this town will come and get it for nothing. The trick is booking them before the hauler, not after.
Cheap and free junk removal in Tucson
There is free junk removal in Tucson. It is narrower than the search results suggest, it runs on somebody else’s schedule, and if you use it in the right order the paid part of the job gets much smaller.