🌲 WHAT WE TAKE IN NORTH CAROLINA
Your Full-Service Solution for NC’s Landfill-Banned Items
Affordable, full-service junk removal in Mecklenburg, Wake, Guilford, and across North Carolina. We take it all! Our professional, family-owned team specializes in handling the items your local municipal collection (like in Charlotte or Raleigh) won’t touch, ensuring your cleanup is fast, reliable, and compliant with NCDEQ regulations.
North Carolina state law bans many common household items from landfills.1 Our service ensures these materials are properly recycled, not illegally dumped or left for you to drive to a county center.
⚖️ REGULATED ITEMS WE SPECIALIZE IN HAULING
North Carolina General Statutes explicitly prohibit the disposal of several items in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfills.2 We handle the pickup and guaranteed legal recycling of these items:
| NC Regulated Junk | What We Take | Compliance & Disposal Process |
| Electronics (E-Waste) | Televisions (all types), Computers, Monitors, Printers, and other video display units. | Banned from NC landfills. We ensure these are taken to NCDEQ-registered electronics recyclers for safe processing and data destruction. |
| White Goods (Appliances) | Refrigerators, Freezers, Ovens, Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers, and Water Heaters. | NC bans “White Goods” from landfills. We ensure metal recovery and proper removal of hazardous components like refrigerants (Freon). |
| Tires | Passenger, light truck, and other vehicle tires. | Banned from NC landfills. We transport all scrap tires to state-certified waste tire processing facilities. |
| Lead-Acid Batteries | Car batteries, boat batteries, and other similar lead-acid cells. | Banned from NC landfills. These are segregated and delivered to approved battery recyclers. |
| Yard Waste | Grass, leaves, brush, tree limbs, and clean wood waste. | Banned from NC landfills. We haul to composting or Land Clearing & Inert Debris (LCID) sites as required by NCDEQ. |
🏡 STANDARD BULK & REMODELING JUNK
We handle all the heavy lifting for your home or business cleanup, saving you the hassle of coordinating with local municipal bulky waste rules (which often require scheduling, limits, and curbside placement).
- Furniture & Mattresses: Couches, sectionals, dining sets, mattresses, and box springs—no wrapping or size limits.
- Construction Debris: Lumber, drywall, flooring, bricks, concrete, and roofing materials from remodeling projects.3Note: Many municipalities, like Greensboro and Raleigh, will not collect C&D debris from contracted jobs.4 We will.
- Estate & Garage Cleanouts: Full cleanout services for homes, apartments, storage units, and offices. We remove everything, including the trash.
- Exercise Equipment: Treadmills, ellipticals, weights, and large sporting goods.
- Scrap Metal: Non-appliance metal items, grills (propane tanks removed), and shelving units.
⛔ WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE
For safety and legal compliance, we cannot accept any hazardous waste as defined by the state:
- Household Hazardous Waste (HHW): This includes wet paint, solvents, pesticides, corrosives, and flammable liquids.5
- Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACM): Due to specialized permitting, removal of materials containing asbestos requires certified experts.
If you have HHW, please contact your county’s solid waste division (e.g., Wake County or Mecklenburg County) for their next collection event.