Junk Removal on the South Shore of Massachusetts

On most of the South Shore, getting rid of an old couch means a trip to your town's transfer station, a resident sticker on the windshield and a fee at the booth. Count On Me! does junk removal on the South Shore of Massachusetts from our home base in Assonet: furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and basement clean-outs, estate clean-outs and renovation debris. We're a family-owned, licensed and insured business with 5+ years hauling junk on the South Shore. Call or text us a photo, get a price before any work begins, and we do all the lifting.

What South Shore homes need

The South Shore we cover is Plymouth County and the towns around it: the coast from Plymouth and Kingston up through Duxbury, Marshfield and Scituate, the inland towns along Route 3 and Route 18, and the Route 24 corridor through Brockton, Bridgewater, Middleboro and Lakeville. From Assonet we reach Brockton and Bridgewater up Route 24 and Plymouth across Route 44. Further north than that? Ask, and we'll tell you.

A lot of South Shore junk lives in garages and basements, and it's heavy: a dead freezer, a treadmill, an old workbench, a sectional that came down the stairs fifteen years ago. Most of it can't go in a town trash bag, and a car or SUV fits a fraction of it. We carry it out, load the truck and sweep the floor you haven't seen in years.

The coastal towns have their own jobs. Beach houses and older cottages in Marshfield and Scituate get emptied when they're sold, rebuilt or handed down, and families out of state need someone to clear them. Estate clean-outs, hot tubs that stopped working and leftover debris after a kitchen or bath remodel are typical South Shore jobs, and each one is more than a car load.

Junk removal services on the South Shore

• Garage & Basement CleanoutsSouth Shore garages and basements emptied, including the freezer, the exercise equipment and the boxes nobody has opened since the last move.
• Estate CleanoutsWhole houses and coastal cottages cleared before a sale, with the family's keep pile set aside first.
• Furniture RemovalCouches, dressers and dining sets carried out of the house, instead of strapped to a roof for the transfer station.
• Appliance RemovalWashers, dryers, fridges and ACs hauled out and sent to the recycling stream Massachusetts requires.
• Construction & Demolition Debris PickupRemodel leftovers from South Shore kitchens and baths, sorted so the banned materials get recycled.
• Hot Tub RemovalDead hot tubs cut down, carried out of the yard and hauled, with the area cleaned up after.

Transfer stations, stickers and bulky items on the South Shore

Every South Shore town handles bulky junk its own way, and most of the coastal towns run a resident-only transfer station. In Hingham, bulky and construction waste is weighed and charged, a residential vehicle can bring no more than 3 cubic yards, and rubble such as tile, brick, granite and cement isn't accepted; mattresses carry a per-item fee and need a valid resident sticker. Scituate's station on the Driftway is for residents with a transfer station sticker, bought with proof of residency. Marshfield's station on Clay Pit Road is for residents who pay the annual trash fee and buy a sticker from the DPW. Plymouth's Manomet Transfer Station needs a vehicle permit for residents enrolled in the town's solid waste program, and mattresses go to a separate facility, charged by weight plus a per-item fee. Each of those works for a car load. None of them comes into your basement.

Massachusetts law adds another layer. Since November 1, 2022, mattresses, box springs and textiles are banned from the trash under MassDEP's waste disposal bans (310 CMR 19.017). Appliances, TVs and CRT screens, tires, scrap metal, yard waste, lead-acid batteries, clean wood, clean drywall, asphalt, brick and concrete are banned too. That's why a load of mixed junk can't just go to one dumpster: it has to be sorted. We sort it, so each item goes where the law says it goes.

What we don't take: household hazardous waste such as oil-based paint, solvents, gasoline, pool chemicals, propane tanks and asbestos. Your town's household hazardous waste collection day handles those. Empty or dried-out latex paint cans are fine; ask us about anything else. We also don't rent dumpsters or do structural demolition.

Getting started on the South Shore

1. 1

   Call or text us a photo

   Send a picture of the pile, the garage or the room. Tell us the town, how close the truck can park and whether there are stairs.

2. 2

   Free estimate

   We price from the photo, or come out for a free on-site estimate on bigger clean-outs. No obligation.

3. 3

   Price before any work

   You get the exact price before we lift anything. Same-day pickup when the schedule has room.

4. 4

   We do the lifting

   Our crew carries everything out of the basement, attic, garage or yard and loads the truck. You point; we carry.

5. 5

   Sweep, sort, recycle

   We sweep up, then sort the load: mattresses, metal, appliances and electronics to recycling, usable items to donation when we can.

South Shore junk removal questions

Sources (8)

1. hingham-ma.gov/250
2. hingham-ma.gov/832/MattressBox-Springs
3. scituatema.gov/1493/2026-Transfer-Station-and-Beach-Stickers
4. scituatema.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif11836/f/pages/transfer_station_fees_2024_1.pdf
5. marshfield-ma.gov/print/292
6. plymouth-ma.gov/1108/Manomet-Transfer-Station
7. mass.gov/guides/massdep-waste-disposal-bans
8. mass.gov/doc/municipalities-compliance-with-the-mattress-waste-ban/download