What your city's bulk trash pickup won't take (OKC metro)

Just about every city around Oklahoma City will haul off an old couch. Very few will take what's left after a remodel, a teardown or a dirt job. Here's how nineteen cities around the metro compare, taken from each city's own trash pages.

The short version

Fourteen of the nineteen cities spell out that bulk pickup won't take construction or demolition material — concrete, rock, dirt, brick or roofing, in some combination. Of the other five, Stillwater and Chickasha don't publish what their bulk pickup refuses, Weatherford has no bulk program but won't let construction material be left by city dumpsters, Piedmont asks residents to keep wood and construction debris out of the trash, and Bethany's list rules out asphalt shingles. Most cities also cap how much a household can set out, and where there's a cap it's usually 3 or 4 cubic yards.

City by city

"Not stated" means the city's page doesn't give a volume limit — not that there isn't one. Every city also has placement rules (how far from the curb, how early you can set things out, how long limbs can be), and those are on each city's page and on our town pages.

What that means for your pile

If it's mostly household junk — furniture, mattresses, boxes, the appliances your city allows — the city program is usually the cheapest way to get rid of it. Watch the volume cap and the set-out rules, and it'll probably go on your next pickup.

If it's sheetrock, shingles, broken concrete, brick or dirt, the city truck is going to leave it where it sits. The same goes for a pile that's bigger than the cap, or a job that can't wait for the next pickup week. That's the gap our junk removal crew fills — and because we also do demolition and concrete removal, the same crew can handle the heavy material and the household junk.