Household appliances aren’t just difficult to move—they can be difficult or even illegal to throw away improperly. If you have upgraded your appliances to modern, eco-friendly alternatives, you certainly do not want irresponsible appliance disposal to undo that good.

Do yourself, your home, and the environment a big favor by calling in the pros at Junk King for safe, responsible appliance disposal.

It’s important to take care of appliances the right way for many reasons:

• Bulky, awkward items are dangerous for many people to try to move.
• Many appliances contain hazardous materials like mercury or CFCs and cannot be dumped with regular trash.
• Metal and other materials in appliances can potentially be recycled if handled properly.

Proper Methods of Appliance Disposal

Ultimately, we should all do everything we can to avoid sending household appliances to landfill. If the appliance can still be used, find someone who wants it. If it’s broken, professional junk haulers should handle it to ensure safe disposal.

If you are unsure about whether an item poses a special risk, you can always call Junk King to ask about proper appliance disposal. Air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers often contain chemical refrigerants that contribute to the greenhouse gas effect when disposed of poorly. Mercury can be found in many appliances that have thermometers, from ovens and heaters to laundry machines. These items cannot go with regular bulk trash and should be taken to special facilities.

Get rid of your unwanted items with one of these methods of appliance disposal:

• Donation. Usable appliances can find a new home. Families in need, college students, or even people trying to furnish a vacation home or guest house could certainly use your unwanted appliances. Find a charity or non-profit group that resells or gifts items and arrange for pick-up or drop-off if possible.
• Sell it in classifieds. Advertise unwanted appliances in working condition on Craigslist, eBay, local newspapers. Pin a note on the bulletin at your favorite coffee shop. You might put some cash in your pocket or at least find someone with a truck who will take it away.
• Call junk haulers. Professional hauling services from Junk King ensure proper appliance disposal. We will recycle or donate the item if we can—and if we can’t, the appliance will be disposed of in an eco-friendly way whenever possible. You don’t lift a finger and the appliance disappears.

How Junk King Makes Appliance Disposal Easy

When you make an appointment for appliance disposal through Junk King, you get professionals to come do the heavy lifting and haul away your items. From start to finish, there’s no stress on you.

We know the proper disposal regulations by California law. We have resources for donation, recycling, and disposal around Sonoma and Marin County. When Junk King hauls away your appliances, you know that every item will donated or recycled in the best way possible.

Before we haul junk away for you, consider ways to donate, sell, or give away your unwanted items. Junk King proudly participates in a number of recycling programs and can bring some good quality items to donation centers, as well. However, you can actually reduce the load for us to haul away and feel good about sharing your collection of “junk” before we get there.

Finding new homes for things before we haul junk away has several benefits:

• Donate items to a non-profit organization of your choice
• Help the environment by sorting and recycling things
• Make some money by selling decent quality items
• Let your friends have things you no longer need
• Engage your community through a garage sale or yard sale

Here’s a look at the many ways you can reduce your load of trash and make the process greener by sharing your junk with others before we haul junk away for good.

Sell what you can on Craigslist and eBay

Before we haul junk away, why not make a little money by selling your usable goods? You might never want to see that old couch again, but chances are good that a local college student wouldn’t mind the stains. You can offer virtually anything up for sale on Craigslist from furniture and appliances to paintings, magazine collections, baseball cards, you name it. You can also sell things on eBay and require that the buyer is local and can pick up the item themselves.

Tell friends on social media about what’s up for grabs

When you’re planning your cleaning project, it can’t hurt to announce to friends on social media that you need to get rid of some things. Perhaps a friend has always admired your collection of souvenir cups from Giants games and they’d be happy to come take them away. We haul junk frequently that could surely be used by someone else, so why not see if your friends are interested?

Junk King recycles everything we can, but many items are better off being re-purposed rather than recycled. If you can send some items off to new homes before we haul junk away, you can help your friends and reduce the amount of junk being taken away.

Hold a garage sale or yard sale

Good old-fashioned garage sales and yard sales are another way to prevent things from going to landfill and make a few bucks while you’re at it. Sell anything in good condition that would otherwise be junk for us to handle and clean up your home even further by selling other things that are just sitting around. We haul junk to donation centers and recycle what we can, but it’s even more efficient for you to sell some things beforehand.

Let Junk King recycle or dispose of the rest

You may not be able to find a new home for all your belongings, and that’s okay. Junk King recycles up to 60% of everything when we haul junk. We can look for charitable organizations that would accept items as donations, and we can take scraps and debris like wood and metal to industrial recycling centers.

We’re happy to help make the whole process more environmentally friendly and provide good quality items to people in need. If you can give away or repurpose things before we haul junk away in our trucks, you’re helping the community and the environment even more.