The tube TV in the garage that nobody will take, the 65-inch that finally quit, the shelf of monitors and printers from the home office. We take it off the wall, carry it out, and route it to an e-waste recycler instead of a landfill — flat photo-quoted price, $84 small, $91 medium, $98 large, same-day when a slot's open. No Arizona sales tax on the service.
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Same-day is usually open across the Valley. Downtown or Old Town condo? The COI is filed and the freight elevator reserved before the crew arrives.
We lift it off the bracket, take the mount too if you want, carry it out, and route it to an e-waste recycler rather than the transfer station.
Flat by size, quoted from your photo. Televisions ladder by screen size and weight — a 32-inch bedroom set, a 55-inch living-room panel and an old 65-inch plasma are three different carries — and the rest of the electronics catalog is priced per unit alongside them.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| TV — small | $84 |
| TV — medium | $91 |
| TV — large | $98 |
| Computer monitor | $78 |
| Desktop computer | $83 |
| Printer (small / desktop) | $78 |
| Stereo / receiver | $70 |
| Large speaker | $77 |
| Mixed electronics box | $104 |
Two things worth knowing. First, the mixed electronics box at $104 is the answer to the closet-full-of-old-gear problem — cables, an ancient router, two printers, a DVD player, a couple of monitors — priced as one box instead of nine separate line items. Second, the $75 minimum: every TV on this list clears it on its own, but a lone $70 stereo bills at the $75 floor, so if something small is going, put whatever else is dead in the same photo. Carry-out, the wall-mount take-down and the e-waste routing are all included, and there's no Arizona sales tax on the service.
Outside context: independent 2026 market surveys put a typical metro Phoenix junk-removal job at roughly $226–$237. Franchise haulers price by truck fraction against a job minimum, which a single television never justifies — one TV at $84–$98 undercuts that floor outright.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Phoenix bulk trash appointment | Free | Up to ~3 business days out | Electronics are handled separately from uncontained trash, and the program is capped at 4 collections a year anyway — spending one on a TV is a bad trade. |
| Best Buy take-back | Free–fee, per item | Store hours | Real, but capped per household per day, you drive it there yourself, and old CRT tube sets are commonly refused or carry a fee. |
| Municipal e-waste drop-off event | Free | Whenever the next one is | Schedule-bound — you wait for a date, load it into your own vehicle and queue in the sun. Nothing helps if the set is 200 lb of CRT. |
| Sell it or donate it | Free | Days–never | A dead TV is unsellable and undonatable. Even working CRTs and small older panels have effectively no resale market left. |
| JunkRabbit | $84–$98 flat | Same day | None — off the wall, carried out, routed to an e-waste recycler, flat photo price, no tax line. |
Not the way people assume. City of Phoenix Public Works runs bulk trash — officially "uncontained trash" — and since it moved to an appointment basis the terms are strict: a maximum of four collections per calendar year, appointments booked up to three business days out, and nothing set out more than seven days ahead. On top of that, electronics are handled separately from ordinary bulk rather than being thrown on the same pile, because a television isn't landfill material in the way a broken patio chair is.
So a CRT or a dead 65-inch plasma is precisely the item this program is worst at. Even in the best case you'd be spending a quarter of your annual collection allowance on one object, hauling it out to the curb yourself — an old tube set can run well over a hundred pounds and there is no good way for one person to carry one — and leaving it face-down on the street for days while you wait. In the Valley's HOA-governed suburbs that's a violation letter waiting to happen, and a screen at the curb in Phoenix sun for a week is nobody's idea of a plan.
If you're in Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Glendale or Tempe, the rules are different again — each city runs its own bulk program and its own e-waste arrangements, with its own caps and its own exclusions, so check your own city rather than assuming Phoenix's terms carry over. What none of them will do is come to the media wall, lift a panel off its bracket and take it away this afternoon. That's ours.
Televisions, monitors and computers don't go to the transfer station with the rest of a load. They're routed to e-waste recyclers instead, and there are concrete reasons for that. An old CRT tube contains leaded glass — several pounds of lead in a big set, engineered in to block radiation — which is exactly the material you don't want crushed into a landfill cell. Newer gear brings its own problems: lithium and other batteries in remotes, laptops and UPS units are a fire hazard in a compactor, and circuit boards carry mercury-bearing components in older backlights.
Recycling flips all of that into recovery. E-waste processors separate the leaded glass, pull batteries out for their own stream, and reclaim the copper, aluminum, steel and gold-bearing board material — a modern flat panel is mostly aluminum frame, steel chassis and recoverable plastic once the display stack comes off. The wall mount, being plain steel, goes to scrap with it. Anything genuinely still working — the spare monitor from a home office, a desktop that just got replaced — we'd rather see reused than shredded, so it gets routed that way instead.
All of it is inside your flat price. There's no separate recycling fee added when the crew sees the CRT, which is the usual unpleasant surprise elsewhere.
The awkward part of a TV job is rarely the weight — it's where the set is mounted and what's between it and the truck. On a media wall, a large panel comes off a cantilever bracket, which is a two-person lift done carefully over drywall you want to keep intact; we take the bracket off too if you're restoring the wall before a sale or a walkthrough.
In the ASU-area walk-ups off Apache Boulevard and Mill Avenue, a TV and a desktop go down three flights of exterior stairs at no extra charge — student turnover in early May is one of our busiest weeks for exactly this. In the Downtown Phoenix and Old Town Scottsdale condo towers, there is no curb at all: everything moves through the loading dock, buildings want a certificate of insurance naming management (typically $1M general liability), and the freight elevator is reserved days in advance. We file the COI and book the window so the front desk isn't your problem.
Out in the HOA suburbs — Chandler, Gilbert, Peoria, Ahwatukee — the old electronics have almost always migrated to the garage, since slab homes here have no basements. We load straight out of the garage, nothing is ever staged at the curb, and in summer we take the early-morning window so nobody is carrying a glass panel across a driveway at 112 degrees.
"Three old TVs and a pile of monitors gone, recycled responsibly. Flat price from a photo, no tax line. Easy."
"Cleared out the home office e-waste with the furniture in one quote. Fast and fair."
"Old tube TV nobody would take — they hauled it and recycled it. Glad it didn't go to the landfill."
How much does TV removal cost in Phoenix?
Flat by size: small $84, medium $91, large $98. Monitor $78, desktop $83, small printer $78, stereo $70, large speaker $77, and a mixed electronics box $104. $75 minimum — every TV clears it alone, a lone $70 stereo bills at $75. Carry-out, mount take-down and e-waste routing included, no Arizona sales tax.
Will the city take my old TV?
Not easily. Phoenix bulk trash is appointment-only — four collections a year, three business days out, nothing out more than seven days early — and electronics are handled separately from uncontained trash. You'd also be dragging a heavy set to the curb and leaving it there. Suburbs run their own e-waste rules; check yours.
Why can't it just go in the trash?
Old CRT tubes hold several pounds of leaded glass, and modern gear carries batteries and circuit boards. E-waste recyclers separate those out and recover the metals — which is why TVs, monitors and computers get routed to them instead of a transfer station.
Can you take it off the wall mount?
Yes, and we'll unbolt the bracket too if you want the wall back before a walkthrough. It's in the flat price, not a labor add-on.
Do you take other electronics at the same time?
Yes, and it's usually cheaper. Monitors, desktops, printers, stereos, speakers and cables go on one quote, and a closet's worth of assorted gear prices as a single $104 mixed electronics box.
Can you come same-day?
Usually, when a window is open, with no same-day surcharge. June through September we run early-morning windows; ASU move-out week in early May books out fast.
Is it cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
For one TV, clearly. 2026 market surveys put the average metro Phoenix job around $226–$237, and franchise haulers price by truck fraction against a job minimum a single television can't justify. Ours is $84–$98, carry-out and recycling included.
A CRT tube set or a dead 65-inch plasma is the item the city program handles worst. Phoenix bulk trash is appointment-based, capped at four collections per calendar year, booked up to three business days out, with nothing set out more than seven days ahead — and electronics are handled separately from ordinary uncontained trash rather than being thrown on the pile. Suburban cities set their own e-waste rules, so check your own city before you plan around it.
Televisions, monitors and computers are routed to e-waste recyclers rather than a transfer station because of what is inside them. Older CRT sets contain leaded glass in the tube — several pounds of it — and modern electronics carry batteries, circuit boards and recoverable metals. E-waste recycling separates those streams so the leaded glass and batteries stay out of a landfill and the copper, aluminum and steel go back into use.
Yes. We lift the set off the bracket, and unbolt the mount from the wall too if you want it gone with the TV. That matters when a rental or a condo needs the wall back before a walkthrough, and it is included in the flat price rather than billed as a labor add-on.
Usually, when a window is open, with no same-day surcharge. From June through September crews start early to work ahead of 110-degree heat, so morning slots fill first. Around ASU move-out in early May the calendar tightens.
For a single TV, comfortably. Independent 2026 market surveys put the average metro Phoenix junk-removal job at roughly $226 to $237, and franchise haulers price by truck fraction with a job minimum that a single television does not come close to justifying. Ours is $84 to $98 flat, quoted from a photo, with the carry-out and the e-waste routing included.