Junk Removal in Bennington, VT
Professional Junk Removal & Cleanout Services
Scheduled junk removal and cleanout service in Bennington, Vermont and the surrounding southwestern Vermont towns of Bennington County. Trash King LLC handles rural property and barn cleanouts, estate cleanouts, and larger junk-removal jobs by appointment — licensed, insured, and biohazard-certified.
Services Available in Bennington, VT
We offer a complete range of junk removal and cleanout services for Bennington residents and businesses.
Fast, friendly junk removal for homes and businesses. We haul furniture, appliances, yard debris, and more.
Learn more →Compassionate, professional hoarder cleanout services. We handle sorting, organizing, and safe disposal.
Learn more →Construction and demolition debris removal. Concrete, drywall, wood - we haul it all safely and efficiently.
Learn more →Basement, garage, and whole-house cleanouts. Get your space back with our professional team.
Learn more →Office cleanouts, property turnovers, and commercial waste removal. Minimal disruption to your business.
Learn more →Disaster restoration, estate cleanouts, and specialized removal. We handle sensitive situations with care.
Learn more →Cleanout Services in Bennington
Need more than a single-item pickup? These cleanout services are often relevant for homes, properties, and businesses in Bennington.
Bennington sits in the far southwestern corner of Vermont, a historic Revolutionary War town and the county seat of rural Bennington County. We are based in Salem, New Hampshire, and Bennington is well over a two-hour drive from us, so we are honest about what that means: we are not a same-day, around-the-corner crew here. What we do offer is scheduled junk removal in Bennington, Vermont for larger cleanout jobs, booked by appointment so we can plan the trip and bring the right truck and crew for the work.
What We Haul in Bennington
Bennington County is farm country wrapped around a historic downtown, and the jobs reflect that. A lot of what we handle here is rural property and barn cleanouts — decades of tools, scrap, old furniture, and accumulated odds and ends from outbuildings on back roads in Woodford, Shaftsbury, and Pownal. We also take on estate cleanouts in the older Victorian homes around downtown Bennington, Old Bennington, and North Bennington, where a full house may need to be cleared for sale or for the next family. College-area rentals near Bennington College and seasonal second-home turnover round out the work.
Local disposal, Act 148, and how we handle it
Bennington has its own transfer station on Houghton Lane, run through the Bennington County Solid Waste Alliance, and Vermont’s Act 148 keeps food scraps, yard debris, and blue-bin recyclables out of the regular trash. That is real, and it shapes how a cleanout gets sorted. You do not have to learn any of it. We load everything, haul it, and handle the disposal — we sort for donation and recycling where we can, and route the rest responsibly. We do not take hazardous materials, gas, or oils.
We are licensed, insured, and biohazard-certified, and we are a Christian- and family-owned company with owner Tyler still involved in the work. Whether you are in Bennington or just over the line near North Adams or Williamstown, Massachusetts, we will give you a free quote with no hidden fees and leave the space broom-clean. Call us at (603) 404-0386 to set up scheduled service.
Why Bennington Chooses Trash King LLC
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Our Bennington Service Area
Trash King LLC provides junk removal services throughout Bennington, VT and the surrounding communities.
Where to Dump Junk in Bennington, VT
If you're hauling junk yourself in Bennington, here are official self-haul options for local residents. If you'd rather skip the trip, the dump fees, and the loading, we handle the junk removal for you.
904 Houghton Lane, Bennington, VT 05201
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:00 PM; Saturday 8:00 AM-12:00 PM; closed Sunday.
Permit: Free resident access sticker required. Stickers are issued at the Collections desk at the Town Offices, 205 South Street, Bennington, with proof of Bennington residency. No annual dollar fee for the sticker itself (disposal is pay-as-you-throw by bag/weight per Vermont Act 148).
Accepts:
Household trash via pay-as-you-throw bags and barrels; bulky furniture, mattresses and box springs; sleeper sofas; non-Freon appliances; Freon-containing appliances (refrigerators, freezers, AC units, dehumidifiers); water heaters up to 100 gallons; construction and demolition debris and bulk municipal solid waste by weight on the scale; recyclables (blue-bin paper, cardboard, bottles and cans); leaf and yard debris and food scraps (required to be diverted from trash under Vermont Act 148). Household Hazardous Waste is accepted at the same Houghton Lane site seasonally by appointment (see hazardous_waste_dropoff).
Will not accept:
Tires are NOT accepted at the transfer station — the Town directs residents to Bennington Tire, 212 Benmont Avenue, Bennington. Household hazardous waste is not accepted with regular trash (only at the seasonal HHW appointment days). Under Vermont Act 148, food scraps, leaf/yard debris and clean wood, and blue-bin recyclables are banned from the trash and must be separated.
Bennington does not run free curbside bulky-item pickup the way larger cities do; routine trash and recycling in town are handled through pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) curbside haulers or by self-haul to the Bennington Transfer Station at 904 Houghton Lane, consistent with Vermont's Act 148 (which requires volume/weight-based 'pay-as-you-throw' pricing and parallel collection of recycling and food scraps). For bulky items, residents self-haul to the transfer station with a free resident sticker (issued at the Town Offices, 205 South Street) and pay per item: bulky furniture and mattresses/box springs are $20.00 each, sleeper sofas $51.00 each, non-Freon appliances $7.75, Freon-containing appliances (refrigerators, freezers, AC units, dehumidifiers) $11.00, and water heaters up to 100 gallons $11.00. Mattresses ARE accepted at the Bennington Transfer Station (Vermont does not ban mattresses from disposal the way Massachusetts does), so a junk hauler can legally dispose of them, but the per-item fee applies. Tires are NOT taken at the transfer station — the Town directs residents to Bennington Tire at 212 Benmont Avenue. Larger mixed cleanout loads of trash or construction debris are weighed on the scale at $145/ton ($15 minimum).
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) for the Bennington area is handled by the Bennington County Solid Waste Alliance (BCSWA) at its collection facility at the Bennington Transfer Station, 904 Houghton Lane, Bennington, VT 05201. The site operates seasonally — on Mondays from mid-May through October each year — BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, at a fee of $5.00 per car. Appointments are booked online at bcswa.org/household-hazardous-waste-appointment/. ELIGIBILITY: residents (and, by special appointment, small businesses) of the 13 BCSWA member towns — Arlington, Bennington, Dorset, Glastenbury, Manchester, Pownal, Rupert, Sandgate, Searsburg, Shaftsbury, Stamford, Sunderland, and Woodford. ACCEPTED: products labeled CAUSTIC, TOXIC, CORROSIVE, POISON, FLAMMABLE, DANGER, WARNING, or CAUTION — including drain and floor cleaners, oil-based paints and stains, gasoline, antifreeze, pesticides, pool chemicals, mercury thermometers/thermostats, fire extinguishers, 1-lb and 20-lb propane tanks, and appliances containing Freon. NOT ACCEPTED at the HHW collection: used motor oil, auto/mower batteries, radioactive materials, smoke and CO detectors, fluorescent bulbs and CFLs, sharps, tires, explosives, furniture/bulky items/mattresses, scrap metal, appliances, electronic waste, material in garbage bags, trash, empty cans/containers, dried or dried-out latex paint, shampoos/soaps, pharmaceuticals, ointments, candles, rock salt, drywall compound, and fertilizers without herbicides. An alternative HHW option is the Rutland County Solid Waste District facility, which accepts HHW with an additional fee for out-of-service-area residents.
Serving All of Bennington, VT
Trash King LLC provides professional junk removal throughout Bennington and surrounding neighborhoods. We know the area and can handle jobs of any size.
Neighborhoods We Serve
- Downtown Bennington
- Old Bennington
- North Bennington
- Bennington Centre
- Paper Mill Village
- Monument Avenue / Monument Circle area
- Bennington College area (North Bennington)
- Mount Anthony / Mansion Drive (former Southern Vermont College area)
- Pownal (neighboring town, southern Bennington County)
- Shaftsbury (neighboring town, north of Bennington)
- Woodford (neighboring town, east on Route 9)
- Sandgate / Arlington (northern Alliance towns)
Local Landmarks
- Bennington Battle Monument (306-foot obelisk, tallest structure in Vermont)
- Old First Church (First Congregational, 1806) and Robert Frost's grave, Bennington Centre Cemetery
- Bennington Museum (largest public Grandma Moses collection; Bennington Pottery)
- Bennington College (1 College Drive, North Bennington)
- Burt Henry Covered Bridge (Walloomsac River)
- Paper Mill Village Covered Bridge (longest in Bennington County)
- Silk Road Covered Bridge (1840 Town lattice truss)
- Lake Paran (North Bennington; on former Robert Frost farmland)
- Mount Anthony / former Southern Vermont College & Everett Estate (982 Mansion Drive; college closed 2019)
- Downtown Bennington Historic District (Main, South, North Streets)
- Old Bennington Historic District (Revolutionary War-era homes)
- Robert Frost Stone House Museum (Shaftsbury, just north)
- Walloomsac River
- Catamount / Mount Anthony Country Club area
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Junk We Most Often Haul in Bennington
Every neighborhood has its own patterns. Here's what we see most often when we get a call from Bennington, VT.
- Rural property and barn cleanouts on back roads in Bennington, Woodford, Shaftsbury, and Pownal — decades of tools, scrap, old farm equipment, and accumulated contents from outbuildings
- Estate cleanouts of older Victorian and Colonial homes in downtown Bennington, Old Bennington, and the Monument Avenue area when a property is cleared for sale
- Bennington College-area and rental-housing turnover in North Bennington (futons, mattresses, particleboard furniture, dorm and apartment castoffs)
- Seasonal and second-home turnover across southwestern Vermont — furniture, appliances, and accumulated belongings when vacation properties change hands
- Freon appliances (older refrigerators, freezers, AC units, dehumidifiers) and water heaters swapped out of aging Bennington County housing stock
- Bulky furniture, sleeper sofas, mattresses, and box springs that exceed pay-as-you-throw bag limits and the transfer-station per-item fees
- Garage, basement, and shed clearouts including snow blowers, lawn equipment, and grills typical of rural Vermont winters
- Light demolition and construction debris from renovations of the historic downtown and older village housing (weighed at the $145/ton scale rate)
Disposal Rules in VT
Under Vermont's landfill disposal-ban statute (10 V.S.A. § 6621a) and the 2012 Universal Recycling Law (Act 148), the following materials are banned from disposal in Vermont trash and landfills, phased in over time: lead-acid (vehicle) batteries and waste oil (since 1990), white goods/major appliances such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, water heaters, dishwashers, and freezers (since 1991), tires (since 1992), rechargeable and other regulated batteries plus mercury-added products including fluorescent and CFL bulbs, mercury thermostats, and thermometers, and architectural paint, stains, thinners, and varnishes. Act 148 then added three more categories: mandated "blue-bin" recyclables (metal, glass, most plastics, and paper) banned from the trash effective July 1, 2015; leaf and yard debris and clean (untreated, unpainted) wood banned effective July 1, 2016; and food scraps/food residuals, where the full residential ban applying to every household took effect July 1, 2020. Electronics are separately covered by Vermont's E-Cycles program (10 V.S.A. Chapter 166), an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law under which covered devices — computers, monitors, CRTs, televisions, printers, and most personal electronics — have been banned from landfill disposal since January 1, 2011 and are collected free for households, charities, school districts, and small businesses. Paint stewardship IS active in Vermont: under Act 58 of 2013, PaintCare has operated a statewide architectural-paint take-back program since 2014, offering free drop-off of leftover latex and oil-based paint at participating retailers and transfer stations (Act 59 of 2025 is expanding it to additional coatings, with new non-architectural requirements phasing in around July 1, 2026). Vermont's battery rules were strengthened by Act 152 of 2024: effective July 1, 2024 it is illegal to landfill BOTH single-use (primary) and rechargeable batteries, which must be recycled. Importantly, Vermont does NOT have a statewide mattress-recycling mandate or disposal ban — mattresses and box springs are legal to landfill here (unlike Massachusetts), though individual solid-waste districts and transfer stations commonly charge a per-unit fee (often roughly $25–$45), so a hauler can dispose of them legally but disposal is not free. Vermont also has no textile/clothing disposal ban. Illegal dumping is prohibited under 24 V.S.A. § 2201, which makes it unlawful to throw, dump, or deposit solid waste on any land or water outside an Agency of Natural Resources-certified facility; violators face a civil penalty of up to $800, may be ordered to perform roadside cleanup, and can lose hunting, fishing, and trapping privileges for one year if the penalty goes unpaid. Report illegal dumping to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) / Department of Environmental Conservation Solid Waste Program at (802) 828-1138, or to your regional solid-waste district.
What Bennington Customers Say
Real reviews from customers in and around Bennington, VT
"Tyler and his crew were fabulous. They did a huge clean out for me in one day for a house that was in probate and needed a major cleanout prior to being listed for sale. I cannot recommend them highly enough."
"Needed a quick deck cleanup and Trash Kings delivered. Zero hassle, in and out, done right. This is the kind of service you bookmark for next time, because there's always a next time. Highly recommend!"
"Trash King LLC was amazing! This was my second time using them. Rapid response, courteous, professional and Very very reasonable in price..I highly recommend."
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