Did you know that Fort Lauderdale has an Environmental Crimes Unit? It’s like “Law & Order SVU” but for trash. Here’s how they describe themselves: “The City of Fort Lauderdale’s Environmental Crimes Unit focuses investigative resources on cases that involve negligent, knowing, or willful violations of city, state, and federal environmental law. Generally speaking, “knowing” violations are those that are deliberate and not the product of an accident or mistake. Knowledge of the specific statutes or regulations that prohibit the wrongful conduct is not required. When a violator is aware that the law prohibits the wrongful conduct, the violation is said to be “willful” and, usually, criminal penalties are imposed.” Translation: if you’re dumping trash that you shouldn’t be, the ECU is going to nail you!

You might be considering some illegal dumping without even realizing it. Anytime you put something out on the curb in the hopes that it will just get picked up, you’re illegally dumping. Sure, there are some “collectors” who prowl the neighborhood picking up certain items but there is no guarantee that is going to happen. This is why you might often see pieces of furniture, television sets and mattress on the sidewalk. This also happens when folks move out of apartment and leave stuff behind. It’s still illegal. You can avoid all of that with a single call to Junk King.

Junk King is a company of professional junk haulers who know how to handle something like your mattress disposal. You could be keeping an old mattress in the garage or down the basement because you know it can’t be dumped on the sidewalk. Now, that mattress can be hauled away by a friendly and hard working crew. Junk King will be sending over two movers who will carry that mattress out from wherever you’re keeping it stored. They will do the same for any other bulky or heavy object you want to get rid of. On the same appointment for your mattress disposal, Junk King will remove appliances, e-waste, sofas and boxes of junk.

The good news is that Junk King isn’t going to automatically dump your mattress in a landfill. Instead, they might drop it off at a recycling center. That way it can be torn apart and the components reused. Whether you just need mattress disposal or a total home clean out, Junk King is the way to go.