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College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving—Best overall

With a slew of services aimed at making your junk removal project run as smoothly as possible, College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving tops our list of companies that will take trash off your hands. On top of being a killer junk removal company, College Hunks also specializes in moving and demolition—which is why we ranked them as one of our favorite local movers.

Because of this versatility, we recommend College Hunks if you’re moving for the first time in years and have accumulated a lot of stuff you don’t want to take to your new home.

Pros

Friendly customer service

Donation pickup

Moving services

Disaster cleanup

Cons

Fewer locations than 1-800-GOT-JUNK?

Why we recommend College Hunks

Its comprehensive list of services

College Hunks offers all the junk removal services you could ever need. The Hunks will haul away your rusted-out hot tub, your thrashed furniture, your retired mattress, and just about everything in between. If you’re unsure whether College Hunks will take what you’re tossing, check with the company before scheduling your service.

College Hunks also has a few unique services you might not have realized you needed:

• Packing for moves
• Home staging
• Seasonal debris cleanup (leaves, branches, etc.)
• Light demolition for home renovation

In addition to all of this, College Hunks has actual Hunks you can enlist for labor around your house, whether it’s hauling heavy boxes from one room to another or rearranging your couches and cabinets.

Its excellent recycling and donation program

Do you want to make sure your junk is handled responsibly and recycled (whenever possible) to avoid contributing to overburdened landfills? While all of the full-service junk removal companies on our list claim to recycle a large percentage of the junk they pick up, College Hunks appears to recycle the most.

College Hunks recycles or donates over 70% of everything it hauls away.1 That’s about 10% more than both 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and Junk King.

In addition to recycling, College Hunks also donates some of the belongings from each junk removal job.

Here are some of its most common donation pickup requests:

• Home furnishings and office equipment
• Nursery and baby items
• Items from garage, attic, or basement cleanup projects

Want to make sure your junk gets donated or recycled?

Want to donate instead of throwing stuff away?

Is your old stuff still useful, just not necessarily useful to you? The full-service junk removal companies on this list also do donation pickups, so you can send your old furniture and appliances to a donation center where they’re sure to end up in a good home. You can also check out our list of charities that pick up donations.