Bulk Trash Pickup in Dallas, TX: Rules, Limits and Fees
What Dallas picks up at the curb, how many items you get, what needs an appointment, and what it costs. Straight from the city, checked and dated.
What Dallas collects, and what you do with the rest
Every city route below is capped. Read the last two columns first: they decide whether the city takes your load at all, or only part of it.
| Route | What it costs | How much it takes | The condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curbside, regular collection day | Included in residential service; the collection does not cover business or commercial properties. | Ten cubic yards a month, with one exception a year that allows twenty. | Materials go out between Thursday and Sunday before your collection week, placed just behind the curb in front of your own home — not at the side of the house, not in an alley, not across the street, not in the roadway or on the sidewalk, and at least five feet clear of roll carts, mailboxes, fences, water meters, telephone boxes, parked cars, fire hydrants, poles and traffic signs. Taken: tree limbs and shrubbery no thicker than eight inches and no longer than ten feet, bagged grass and leaves, household furniture, bicycles and toys, stoves, washers, dryers and water heaters. Not taken: ordinary bagged garbage that would fit in the roll cart, construction and demolition debris (bricks, rock, asphalt, gravel, concrete, glass panes, glass doors, mirrors, anything with nails sticking out), auto parts and tires, dirt, soil and sod, electronics, roofing and shingles, paints and chemicals, and any appliance holding coolant or gas — air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, lawnmowers. |
| Hire a hauler | You pay — quotes come from local companies bidding against each other. | No item cap and no wrapping, residency or vehicle rule. | They carry it out; nothing has to reach the curb under its own steam. |
Putting it out with your regular trash in Dallas
- How many items
- Ten cubic yards a month, with one exception a year that allows twenty.
- What it costs
- Included in residential service; the collection does not cover business or commercial properties.
- Good to know
- Materials go out between Thursday and Sunday before your collection week, placed just behind the curb in front of your own home — not at the side of the house, not in an alley, not across the street, not in the roadway or on the sidewalk, and at least five feet clear of roll carts, mailboxes, fences, water meters, telephone boxes, parked cars, fire hydrants, poles and traffic signs. Taken: tree limbs and shrubbery no thicker than eight inches and no longer than ten feet, bagged grass and leaves, household furniture, bicycles and toys, stoves, washers, dryers and water heaters. Not taken: ordinary bagged garbage that would fit in the roll cart, construction and demolition debris (bricks, rock, asphalt, gravel, concrete, glass panes, glass doors, mirrors, anything with nails sticking out), auto parts and tires, dirt, soil and sod, electronics, roofing and shingles, paints and chemicals, and any appliance holding coolant or gas — air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, lawnmowers.
Or have someone take it
City routes are cheap but slow, and they all assume you can get the item to the curb yourself. If it is upstairs, if it is heavy, or if you need it gone this week, a local pro is the faster answer.
Post the job free, and local pros in Dallas bid on it. You pick the offer you like and pay your pro directly — JunkerClub takes no cut of the price.
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What people actually pay — measured, not estimated
And a flat rate is only one company's number. When we put one real job out to bid, 12 local pros priced the same pile from the same photos: $225 to $1,250, median $525. Nobody else publishes this, because nobody else runs the auction.
Bulk pickup in Dallas — common questions
How many bulk items can I put out at once in Dallas?
Ten cubic yards a month, with one exception a year that allows twenty.
Where this comes from
Checked against official sources on 2026-09-15. City rules change — if something here does not match, the city page wins.
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