Junk Removal in Meridian, ID

Meridian by the Census numbers

The 2020 Census counted 117,635 people in Meridian, more than Nampa and about half the size of Boise, and a Census Bureau estimate puts it at 142,988 by July 2025. That is roughly 25,000 more residents in five years. About three in four Meridian homes are owner-occupied on the Bureau's 2020 to 2024 survey, and households average just under 2.7 people. Put together, that is a lot of garages holding what a move or two left behind.

What Meridian's bulky-item pickup covers

Meridian contracts with Republic Services for trash, and single-family homes with cart service get year-round bulky item pickup: ten free pickups a year, booked in advance, with items at the curb by 6 AM on trash day and at least three feet from the cart or a parked car. Use it first; its limits are where a hauler comes in. Anything that is not furniture or an appliance tops out at 60 pounds, refrigerant appliances carry a per-item fee on the utility bill, and the list of things Republic will not collect includes pianos, bathtubs, hot tubs, boats, TVs and other electronics, and construction debris.

The things the curb can't take

Several items on that refused list are ordinary paid-hauling work. A piano comes down the stairs on a dolly, a hot tub gets cut into sections on the patio (the hot tub page explains how), and a stack of remodel scraps goes as debris hauling rather than as trash. The other gap is location: the city pickup starts at the curb, and a sectional in a basement still has to get there somehow. The hauler carries from wherever the item sits, and a full move-out goes as a cleanout quoted by the load.

The Trash or Treasure weekend, and the rest of the year

Meridian runs an annual Trash or Treasure weekend in May, when registered residents set clean, usable household goods at the curb beside a yard sign and neighbors find them on an online map; local nonprofit donation outfits can join on the final day. The rest of the year, on streets where nobody wants a pile sitting out for days, the hauler can load straight from the garage or backyard. Anything still useful heads to valley donation centers ahead of the landfill, with receipts to you. Single pieces are covered on the furniture and appliance page.

North of Meridian, one chart for all of it

Meridian prices off the same sheet as the rest of the valley, junk removal prices for Boise and Meridian from one piece up to a full truck, with the number confirmed on site before anything moves. Heading north, Star junk removal on Highway 44 and junk removal in Garden City off Chinden run on it too, and junk removal in Boise next door is priced the same way, so moving a job across a city line never changes the quote.

Paint, solvents and the Ada County side

Two things never leave a Meridian garage on this truck: open paint, stains and solvents, which belong in Ada County's household hazardous waste program, and possible asbestos from an older remodel, which needs licensed abatement. The city is plain that trash goes out through Republic Services or the Ada County Landfill and that burning or burying it is prohibited, so leftover fence boards and project scraps need a real exit as well. Photos of the pile, texted to (208) 591-8785, shrink the range before anyone heads your way.