New to the Springs and wondering where the bulk-trash pickup is? There isn't one — the city collects no trash and no big items at all. Here's the complete, honest rundown of your options for getting rid of large stuff.
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Upload Photos & Get Quote →Colorado Springs is one of the few large U.S. cities with no municipal trash service and no bulk-item pickup whatsoever. Residents individually contract private trash haulers (Waste Connections, GFL, and others), and those contracts cover your cart — not a couch, not a mattress, not an appliance. There is no "large item day," no annual amnesty pickup, nothing. PCSing military families and transplants from other cities hit this wall constantly.
You can load big items and drive them to a private transfer station (like the Waste Connections site on Commercial Street) or the Fountain landfill. Fees are weight-based and, by national standards, relatively low — but you need a truck or trailer, the muscle to load a waterlogged mattress or a fridge, and a free afternoon. Appliances with refrigerant (fridges, freezers, AC) may need special handling, and Colorado bans electronics from the landfill entirely.
Gently-used furniture can go to Goodwill, ARC, or Habitat ReStore, and Facebook Marketplace or Nextdoor move things fast. The catch is coordinating pickup and getting a stranger (or a charity truck on its schedule) to carry a heavy piece down your stairs — which often falls through for the big, damaged, or basement-bound items.
When it's heavy, damaged, in the basement, or you just want it gone today, a crew carries it out for a flat price. That's us: text a photo, get a flat quote (sofa $170, fridge $221, whole rooms by truck-fill from $325), and we haul it from wherever it sits — basement, garage, or curb — donation-routing what's usable. Labor and disposal are in the price, and Colorado doesn't tax the service, so there's no tax line.
There's no free city option, so it comes down to your time versus your money: rent a trailer and do the weight-based transfer-station run yourself, or pay a flat photo-quoted price to have it carried out. For anything heavy or below-grade, the flat haul is usually worth it.