The short answer

Bulk collection in the Phoenix metro is a city-by-city thing — Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria, Scottsdale, Tempe, Surprise, Avondale, Goodyear, Buckeye and Queen Creek all run their own program on their own cycle. The details differ. The exclusions rhyme.

The five categories most likely to be left behind are construction and renovation debris, tires, paint and chemicals, electronics, and sealed refrigeration units. We take all five, priced as listed items, with disposal included.

Always read your own city's current bulky-item page before you stage anything at the curb — this is the shape of the rules, not a substitute for them.

1. Construction and renovation debris

Almost universally excluded, because bulk programs are written for household goods rather than for what comes out of a remodel. In the Valley this bites constantly: the metro renovates in the cool half of the year and the material piles up on driveways from October through April.

What it looks like and what it costs with us: construction debris is $120, drywall is $37 per sheet or small bundle, lumber and wood scrap is $41 a bundle, tile or flooring is $33 per box, hardwood or laminate flooring is $41 a bundle, roofing shingles are $48 a bundle, and concrete or masonry debris is $219 per quarter truck. A full kitchen cabinet set rip-out is $293, and individual cabinets are $67 for a base unit and $48 for an upper.

A modest bathroom gut — a fiberglass bathtub at $90, a detached toilet at $64, a bathroom vanity at $69 and a shower door at $71 — is $90 + $64 + $69 + $71 = $294.

2. Tires

Tires are excluded from essentially every municipal bulk program in the country and the Valley is no exception. They are also a Phoenix problem specifically: heat and UV are brutal on rubber, sidewalls dry-rot early here, and a spare that has ridden in a truck bed through a few Arizona summers is not a spare any more.

A single tire is $22. A set of four is $87. That is one of the few genuinely cheap categories, and the visit minimum of $75 means it is worth pairing them with whatever else is in the garage.

3. Paint, solvents and chemicals

Liquids are out of scope for bulk collection everywhere, and in Phoenix they are also the category that most deserves clearing. Paint stored in a garage that reaches attic temperatures every summer separates, skins over and the cans corrode. The same shelf usually holds pool chemicals, weed treatments for the gravel yard, and solvent cans from a project nobody finished.

A one-gallon paint can is $30 and a five-gallon bucket is $52 as listed items. Tell us what is on the shelf when you book so the crew comes prepared, and do not let another Phoenix summer cycle through those cans if you can avoid it.

4. Electronics

E-waste is commonly separated out of general bulk collection across the metro, and this is the classic scenario where the furniture goes and the TV does not — leaving one panel on the curb, which in an HOA community is exactly the thing that generates a letter.

With us: a TV under 42 inches is $62, 42 to 65 inches is $68, over 65 inches is $73. A computer monitor is $58, a desktop tower is $62, a home printer is $58 and a box of assorted electronics is $77.

Worth repeating the local rule while we are here: do not store electronics in a Phoenix garage. Panels delaminate, capacitors dry out and lithium cells swell. The spare TV out there is not a spare.

5. Sealed refrigeration units

Refrigerators, freezers, wine coolers, window air conditioners and outdoor condensers have a sealed circuit, and programs that take a dryer without comment frequently handle these differently or exclude them outright. Given how much cooling equipment this metro cycles through, that is a large gap.

Prices: a standard refrigerator is $164, a side-by-side or French door is $183, a built-in is $238, a mini fridge is $115, a chest freezer is $146, an upright freezer is $149, a small window AC is $87, a large window AC is $109, a portable AC is $85 and an outdoor AC condenser or heat pump is $115.

The Valley's signature version of this is the garage fridge — demoted from the kitchen, run through summers in an uninsulated third bay, and dead by August. $164, carried out.

The sixth thing: anything your HOA will not let you stage

Not a category of material, but it is the exclusion that actually stops most Valley residents from using municipal collection at all. In master-planned communities across Gilbert, Peoria, Surprise, Queen Creek and the east Valley, CC&Rs typically forbid anything visible from the street outside a narrow window, and some are stricter than the city's own timeline.

If your community is one of those, the curb is not really available to you regardless of what the city would accept. The material goes from the garage into a truck, and the curb is skipped.

What we do with the leftovers

All five categories price as listed items or roll into the truck-fill ladder — a quarter load is $241, three-eighths is $338, a half is $431, three-quarters is $587, a full truck is $732 — whichever is lower. Disposal is included in every case and the visit minimum is $75.

The common pattern here is a second visit after a bulk collection: the furniture went, five categories did not, and what is left is a mixed pile on the side of the house. Photograph it, get a flat number, book a slot. Nothing needs to be sorted or moved first.

Frequently asked questions

Does Phoenix bulk pickup take construction debris?

Bulk programs across the Valley are written for household goods and generally exclude renovation material. Check your own city's current bulky-item page. We take it — construction debris is $120, drywall is $37 a bundle and concrete or masonry is $219 per quarter truck.

What do I do with old tires?

Not the curb — tires are excluded essentially everywhere. A single tire is $22 with us and a set of four is $87. Given the $75 visit minimum, pair them with whatever else is in the garage.

Can you take old paint?

Yes. A one-gallon can is $30 and a five-gallon bucket is $52. Tell us how many are on the shelf when you book. It is worth clearing before another Phoenix summer cycles through them.

Why was my TV left on the curb when the furniture was taken?

Electronics are usually handled separately from general bulk material, so a mixed pile can be partly collected. We take TVs from $62 to $73 depending on size, plus monitors, towers and printers.

My HOA will not let me put anything at the curb at all. What then?

That is the normal situation in most Valley master-planned communities. We carry everything out from where it sits — garage, side yard, back bedroom — and load it straight onto the truck, so nothing is ever staged outside.