Junk Removal, Cleanouts and Dumpsters in Mt. Juliet, TN

Junk removal is worth it when a load is more than a County convenience center will take or your week cannot fit the landfill's weekday hours. A Wilson County resident can take 10 bags of household garbage plus one item group, such as a couch and a chair, to a convenience center once a day. Hiring makes sense for a commercial load, a box truck's worth, several item groups, or a landfill run you cannot make before the weekday 2:30 pm check-in. National surveys put a typical job at $150 to $350 (HomeGuide, May 24, 2024) or $133 to $372 (Angi, Sep 30, 2026), and HomeGuide's national figure for dumping at a landfill yourself is around $50. Neither survey's junk removal page prices Mt. Juliet or any Tennessee town.

Wilson County's convenience centers allow 10 bags of household garbage plus one item group per visit, one visit a day. The County's Convenience Centers page lists the groups as two pieces of furniture (couch and chair), two appliances, one 8x10 piece of carpet or rug, five pieces of lumber (flooring included), twenty shingles, two boxes of miscellaneous items, or five pieces of metal or tin. The centers are for Wilson County residents with a Wilson County vehicle tag, and they refuse box trucks, rental moving trucks, enclosed trailers, partial loads and commercial loads. They do not take tires or automotive parts, paint, hazardous waste, yard waste, limbs, grass or fireworks. They are "open daily from 7:00AM-4:30PM"; a County news item of September 21, 2026 excludes federal holidays.

The Wilson County landfill is open Monday through Friday from 7 am to 3 pm, and every load must be checked in at the scale house 30 minutes before closing, so 2:30 pm is the practical cut-off. The County's landfill page prints no Saturday or Sunday hours. Its rates, effective November 1, 2022, are $18 per cubic yard for construction and demolition waste, $100 per ton for shingles and $5 per cubic yard for residential yard waste, marked "(small)" and not defined. Payment is cash or local check only, and untarped loads are turned away. By our arithmetic at the County's $18 rate, 10 cubic yards of construction debris comes to $180. The landfill is at 378 Dump Road in Lebanon.

Each household arranges its own: no City of Mt. Juliet page names a garbage collector, and City Code section 16-8 says the owner of every occupied premises shall supply approved covered containers for rubbish and is responsible for removing it. The City's Public Works department lists six divisions, none of them a garbage or sanitation division. What the City does collect is brush: Public Works runs a chipper route for single family homes with frontage on a public street, and a grappling truck on every street in the city limits except gated or private streets. No City bulk-item pickup appears on the City's site, so a couch or a washer goes to a County center, a donation outlet that accepts it, or a hauler.

A Wilson County resident can take it to a convenience center, where two appliances count as the one item group per visit and refrigerators and freezers are on the County's recycling list. EPA's homeowner FAQ says not to cut refrigerant lines or remove compressors first. EPA's Section 608 rules make the final person in the disposal chain, such as a scrap metal recycler, responsible for ensuring the refrigerant is recovered. While it waits, City Code section 16-21 bars storing a refrigerator that is not in operation without first removing the doors, and Tennessee Code section 39-17-103 makes leaving one with a latching door outside, where children can reach it, a Class B misdemeanor. When we haul one, it goes to a recycler that recovers the refrigerant.

No Wilson County page answers it: the County's Convenience Centers page does not mention mattresses or box springs, and its landfill page does not mention mattresses, so ask the County's Solid Waste Department before you load one. Donation outlets set their own terms. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville's ReStore takes mattresses and box springs only new in packaging; Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee lists mattresses, box springs and sleeper sofas among items it cannot accept; The Salvation Army lists mattresses among the unbroken furniture it takes. Tennessee is not one of the four states where the Mattress Recycling Council runs a program. Across the county line, Metro Nashville charges Davidson County residents $12 per mattress or box spring, up to 4 a month.

Tires and oil-based paint go to the Wilson County landfill; the County's convenience centers list tires, automotive parts and paint as unacceptable. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) lists the landfill as the county's waste tire collection site, but the County's own landfill page gives no tire limit or fee, so ask the County before you load tires. Oil-based paint goes to the landfill's paint program, effective February 1, 2023: Wilson County residents only, 2 times per calendar year, up to one 5 gallon container, five one-gallon containers or twenty one-quart containers. Latex paint is refused there; the County says to dry it out in the sun or with paint hardener or cat litter, then put the hardened paint out with regular trash.

Agree the price first: send photos or a list, and we quote before anything is lifted. Set aside what we do not take, which is paint, chemicals, used oil, propane tanks and batteries, and we tell you where each can lawfully go. Pull out anything you want to keep, sell or donate; if an item meets a donation outlet's published rules, we tell you before we load it. Mention any refrigerator, freezer or window unit, since it goes to a recycler that recovers the refrigerant, and any stairs or tight halls, which Angi (Sep 30, 2026) lists among the things that raise labor costs. At a single family home inside the city, brush that fits the City's chipper rules can wait for its route instead.

By the size and weight of the load, the items in it, how hard they are to reach and what disposal costs, as national surveys describe it. Fixr (updated January 31, 2025) says most companies charge by the truckload and often set flat fees for single items. Angi (updated Sep 30, 2026) ranks volume as the second most important factor and says stairs or tight hallways raise labor costs. Forbes Home calls local disposal fees among the most significant factors; here they are public: Wilson County's landfill charges $18 per cubic yard for construction and demolition waste, effective November 1, 2022. None of these surveys' junk removal pages prices Mt. Juliet or Tennessee. Our written quote says what the price covers and whether any line carries Tennessee sales tax.

Each item goes to a site permitted to take it. Construction debris and yard waste go to the Wilson County landfill in Lebanon. Metal and electronics go to recyclers; the County's own page says its landfill "recycles E-Waste, (computers, printers, televisions, microwaves, etc.) and metal." Refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers and window air conditioners go to a recycler that recovers the refrigerant. Before we load, we say which items meet a donation outlet's published rules, such as those of Habitat for Humanity's ReStore in Lebanon or Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, so you can decide whether they go there instead. Nothing goes to a roadside, a creek bank or a County convenience center, which takes no commercial loads.