Junk removal costs in Lakeland

A Lakeland bulk pickup can be as big as 20 cubic yards, yard waste or junk. Each city customer gets four of them per calendar year. The count resets on January 1, so if you're planning a garage purge and a tree trim, it pays to think about which ones get a pickup.

You set one up by email or phone with the Solid Waste Management Division, giving your address and what's out there. Used furniture, mattresses, box springs, bed frames, couches and chairs all qualify. Appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, water heaters, washers and dryers ride on a special bulk truck that takes them for recycling. Take the doors off a fridge or freezer before it goes out.

Bulk yard waste means branches and trimmings too big for a container, or a pile bigger than 6 by 4 feet, with nothing longer than 8 feet.

Repair leftovers are a narrower case. The city takes small amounts of building debris from your own upkeep of the house, with protruding nails bent over. But if the job needed a city permit or you hired a contractor, the debris is yours or the contractor's to remove.

Not sure the city is your hauler at all? Look at your cans. If the garbage can is gray and the recycling can is black, you're a Polk County customer, and the county, not Lakeland, handles your pickups.