Junk removal costs in Gulfport

Gulfport's garbage truck comes twice a week, and bulk trash rides the same route on the same day. Waste Pro, the city's hauler, runs three bulk collection trucks along the garbage routes. You don't have to call a big pile in, either. The driver tells dispatch when there's a pile to pick up.

Set the pile within 10 feet of the road, clear of low limbs, utility lines, ditches and culverts. Keep it at least 4 feet from fences, mailboxes, cars and utility poles or boxes. Trash has to be bagged or containerized, and limbs cut to 6 feet or less.

The city's list of what a trash pile can't hold runs long. Electronics, microwaves, smoke alarms, fluorescent bulbs and batteries stay out. So do fridges, freezers, air conditioners and water coolers, tires in any condition, liquids, paint and propane tanks. Buckets and coolers of any kind are on it too, since anything hollow leaves voids in the landfill.

Some piles are off limits however tidy they are. Waste Pro won't take debris created by a contractor, tree service or rental clean-up company, a tenant's move-out, or a pile on a vacant lot. Household hazardous waste can go to the Harrison County Work Center on Lorraine Road on the second Saturday of each month.

After a hurricane, don't count on the weekly trucks. The city's collection flyer lists storm and natural disaster debris among the piles they won't take.