Palm Bay, FL
What Palm Bay's bulk pickup takes
Palm Bay's curbside bulk pickup is about as generous as it gets in Brevard. If you can get it to the curb, the city service will usually take it. The trouble starts when you can't.
Palm Bay's trash and recycling are collected by Republic Services under a city contract. The city's page says Republic "offers unlimited bulk pickup at the curb," once a week on your scheduled day, with no volume limits (City of Palm Bay). The list it gives:
- Refrigerators, freezers, ranges, washers, dryers, water heaters and air conditioners
- Furniture and mattresses
- Computers, printers, flat screen TVs and stereos
- Residential move-out piles
Yard waste has its own rules
Yard waste pickup is unlimited too, but it has to be set out the city's way. Loose trimmings go in reusable containers, not plastic or paper bags. Limbs under six inches across get cut to four feet. Anything thicker gets cut to two feet. A pile too big for the regular yard truck gets noted for the claw truck instead.
Two things the city says Republic won't take: debris left by a landscaping company, which that company has to haul, and piles left on empty lots with no service. The details are under Yard Waste on the city's trash page.
So why call a hauler in Palm Bay?
Honestly, for a lot of jobs you shouldn't. If the couch is already in the carport and you can wait for bulk day, put it out. Look up your day on the Republic schedule the city links to.
Palm Bay is mostly houses. The Census Bureau puts about 85 percent of its homes in single-unit buildings, and about 80 percent of occupied homes are lived in by the owner (ACS 2024 1-year). That's a lot of garages, back bedrooms and screen rooms with heavy things in them. The curbside program only works once the stuff reaches the curb.
That's where we come in. An upright freezer in the garage, a sleeper sofa in a back bedroom, a garage that's been filling up for years. We carry it out, sort it and load it. Usable furniture can go to a charity that will take it, and metal can go to scrap.
Where a Palm Bay load ends up
The closest county facility is the Sarno Road landfill and transfer station in Melbourne. The landfill side takes appliances, carpet, lumber, metal and yard waste. The transfer station takes household garbage. Brevard County's household hazardous waste center is on the same site, and that's where paint, solvents and car batteries belong. We can't haul those. See what a junk hauler can't take.
Send photos with the quote form and tell us where things are sitting. We'll send a price, and nothing is booked until you say yes.
Good to know locally
Republic Services collects Palm Bay's trash, with unlimited curbside bulk pickup once a week on each home's scheduled day.
Palm Bay's bulk list includes appliances, furniture, mattresses, flat screen TVs and residential move-out piles.
Yard waste can't go out in plastic or paper bags, and limbs thicker than six inches have to be cut to two-foot lengths.
About 85 percent of Palm Bay's housing units are single-unit buildings.
