Junk Removal Across Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Junk removal in southeastern MA should be simple: you point, we lift, it's gone. Count On Me! is a family-owned business based in Assonet, licensed and insured, with 5+ years hauling junk on the South Shore. We take furniture, appliances, mattresses, yard waste, scrap and whole-house cleanouts from homes, offices and job sites. Send a photo or ask for a free on-site estimate, and you get an exact price before any work begins. Then we do the lifting, load the truck and sort out what can be recycled or donated.

What our junk removal covers

If it isn't hazardous, we can most likely take it. That covers the couch in the basement, the dead freezer in the garage, the boxes from a parent's house, the old carpet, the broken lawn mower and the pile behind the shed. We come to you, go to wherever the junk sits, and carry it out ourselves. You don't drag anything to the curb, borrow a pickup or rent a trailer.

We work for homeowners, renters, landlords, property managers, offices and contractors. A home job might be one recliner or a full estate. A business job might be a floor of old office furniture, the contents of a warehouse, or the debris a renovation left behind. For anyone who fills a truck on a regular basis, scheduled pick-ups keep it from piling up.

Every load gets sorted. Massachusetts won't let a long list of common junk go to a landfill or an incinerator, so we separate metal, appliances, mattresses, clothing and other recyclables, set aside what can be donated, and take the rest to a licensed facility. Items are recycled, donated or disposed of properly, and the disposal is part of the one price you agree to.

What this covers

• Single-item pickups: one couch, one fridge, one mattress
• Estate, hoarder and whole-house cleanouts
• Garage, basement and attic cleanouts
• Office, retail and warehouse cleanouts
• Construction and demolition debris pickups
• Light demolition and haul-away: an old shed, deck, fence, playset or hot tub
• Scheduled pick-ups for landlords, property managers, businesses and contractors
• Yard waste, scrap metal, tires, TVs and electronics

What’s included

• A free estimate from your photos or on site
• An exact, no-obligation price before any work starts
• All the lifting and carrying, from any room or floor
• Loading, hauling and disposal
• Sorting for recycling and donation
• A sweep of the area we cleared

Why junk removal in southeastern MA means sorting every load

Massachusetts bans a long list of everyday junk from the trash. Under MassDEP's waste disposal bans (310 CMR 19.017), landfills, incinerators and transfer stations can't accept large appliances, picture-tube TVs and monitors, scrap metal, leaves and yard waste, brick and concrete, clean drywall or lead-acid batteries, and since November 1, 2022, mattresses and textiles. Whole tires and wood are banned from landfills. MassDEP holds both the people who throw things away and the haulers who carry them responsible for following those rules. That's why a real junk removal job ends with sorting, not dumping.

Town trash pickup won't handle most of it. In Freetown, our home town, curbside pickup takes town trash bags, and bags of 50 pounds or more, torn bags and non-compliant bags get left behind. A recliner, a washer or the contents of a garage needs another plan. Towns around here handle bulky items by appointment, sticker or transfer station permit, each with its own fees and limits. One call to us replaces all of that.

The houses shape the work. Fall River alone has about 4,120 triple-deckers among roughly 17,700 buildings, a type that went up across New England's mill cities from about 1870 to 1910, so a third-floor couch comes down three flights of back stairs. On Cape Cod and along the coast it's cottages, crawl spaces and seasonal homes cleared between owners or tenants. We ask about stairs, carry distance and parking before we price a job, so the number fits the house.

Rhode Island runs on its own rules. Rhode Island Resource Recovery runs a residential drop-off at the Central Landfill in Johnston, and the state's mattress recycling program, Bye Bye Mattress, takes mattresses free at most town transfer stations.

How it works

1. 1

   Call, text or send a photo

   Tell us what's going, where it sits (basement, attic, third floor, back of the yard) and the town. A few photos from different angles are the fastest way to a price.

2. 2

   Get a free estimate

   We price from your photos, or come out for a free on-site estimate on bigger jobs. Either way it costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

3. 3

   Know the price before we start

   You get an exact price before any work begins. Say yes and we book a time; same-day pickup is possible when the schedule has room.

4. 4

   We do the lifting

   We carry everything out from wherever it is and load the truck. You point; you don't lift. Anything you've marked to keep stays put.

5. 5

   Sweep, sort, haul

   We sweep the area we cleared, then sort the load so metal, appliances, mattresses and anything reusable go to recycling or donation before the rest is disposed of properly.

A real job: before and after

Junk Removal questions

Sources (9)

1. mass.gov/guides/massdep-waste-disposal-bans
2. law.cornell.edu/regulations/massachusetts/310-CMR-19-017
3. freetownma.gov/1208/Curbside-Trash-Recycling
4. newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/rise-fall-rebirth-new-england-triple-decker/
5. byebyemattress.com/rhode-island/
6. rirrc.org/items/stoves
7. newbedfordguide.com/household-hazardous-waste-drop-off-day-new-bedford-dartmouth-freetown-
8. dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/household-hazardous-waste-drop-day-scheduled-may-2/1570
9. mass.gov/guides/mattress-recycling