Junk removal costs in Tallahassee

Your bulky pickup in Tallahassee comes on a red week or a blue week. Inside city limits, city crews collect bulky items and yard waste every other week, on a set day such as Red Monday or Blue Friday. The pile can go out no sooner than the weekend before. Construction debris is a separate pickup, by request only.

What the curb can't take, the city's Cash for Trash event might. It runs twice a year, traditionally on the third Saturday in April and October, at the Community Beautification and Waste Management facility on Major James Morgan Jr. Way. Residential customers can bring furniture, appliances, electronics, household hazardous waste and up to four tires. Household garbage, yard waste and construction debris stay home.

Outside the city, curbside service is something you sign up for with Waste Pro, Leon County's contractor. Bulk needs no call. Set up to 2 cubic yards a week at the curb by 6 a.m. on your collection day, about a washer and dryer's worth, and it's gone within two business days. Fridges, furniture, mattresses and carpet pieces count. Electronics don't; they go to the county's Hazardous Waste Center on Apalachee Parkway.

Old tires get special attention here. Leon County and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection host Tire Amnesty Days to cut down on mosquito breeding, since one tire left in a backyard can breed thousands of them. During the event, residents can bring up to 25 passenger car tires. Call the county for its latest status.