Bulk Trash Pickup in Denver, CO: Rules, Limits and Fees
What Denver 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 Denver 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 | — | A maximum of five large items — furniture and the like — plus up to ten bags per service address, and only on your own Large Item Pickup week. | Mattresses and box springs are collected, but they have to be bagged and wrapped first. |
| 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 Denver
Mattresses and box springs are collected, but they have to be bagged and wrapped first.
- How many items
- A maximum of five large items — furniture and the like — plus up to ten bags per service address, and only on your own Large Item Pickup week.
- Good to know
- Large Item Pickup runs every nine weeks and falls on the same day as your regular trash and recycling collection, so the city sets the date rather than you. Everything goes out by 6 a.m. that morning, visible, and at least two feet clear of your carts, parked cars, poles and anything else in the way. Putting large items out on any other week counts as illegal dumping. Refused outright: electronic waste, construction material including concrete, bricks, fencing and pallets, and automotive material. Branches are taken only bundled, under four feet long and four inches thick.
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 Denver 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 Denver — common questions
How many bulk items can I put out at once in Denver?
A maximum of five large items — furniture and the like — plus up to ten bags per service address, and only on your own Large Item Pickup week.
Will the trash collectors take a mattress in Denver?
Mattresses and box springs are collected, but they have to be bagged and wrapped first.
Where this comes from
Checked against official sources on 2026-09-10. City rules change — if something here does not match, the city page wins.
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