Junk removal costs in Riverside

Put out a sixth item for a Riverside bulky appointment, and it can cost you the next one. You book by phone on the city's 311 line, and each address gets two appointments a year, five items each. Three trash bags of 20 pounds or less count as one item. Go over five, and if the driver takes them anyway, the city deducts your second appointment automatically.

Items go at the curb, not in the street, by 5:30 a.m. on pickup day, and never more than 24 hours early. Cancel before closing on the business day before, or you lose one of your two.

The truck takes furniture, bed frames and rolled rugs. It leaves appliances with Freon, which go through the Riverside Public Utilities refrigerator recycling program instead. It also leaves tires, auto parts, TVs and computers, and construction scrap like drywall, tile, lumber and doors.

Between appointments, the Agua Mansa Transfer Station takes drop-offs every third Saturday. The city has also held Clean Up Riverside drop-off events at the corporation yard on Lincoln Avenue. The August event on its page took bulky items, e-waste, rimless car tires and small pickup-truck loads of concrete. It turned away commercial waste and any trailer longer than 10 feet.