I get the same call from six towns, always some version of "will the town take this, or do I need you?" The answer changes every few miles. Salem has its own post, because Salem's rules are nothing like these. Every number below came off the town's own page on September 15, 2026, and fees move on July 1, so call before you count on one.
The short version
- Marblehead does not pick up bulk items at the curb at all.
- Beverly takes one bulky item a week through Casella, priced per item, but nothing with Freon in it.
- Swampscott stopped selling stickers. Republic prices the item and takes payment.
- Peabody sells a $20 White Goods Sticker. Mattresses go to Farm Avenue.
- Danvers sells a $20 sticker covering nearly everything except a mattress.
- Lynn is $20 an item at the curb, or free on a drop-off day.
Marblehead: there is no curbside bulk pickup
Marblehead's Board of Health Curbside Collection Regulations, effective July 1, 2026, say it plainly: bulk and oversized items cannot go in the carts, and "Bulk Items must be taken to the transfer station and paid for."
So the couch is yours to move. The transfer station is at 5 Woodfin Terrace, Monday through Saturday, and a Facility Sticker gets you in: the 2026 permit notice puts that at $100, or $40 for a second at the same address. Inside, the 2026 tipping fee notice weighs furniture, rugs, cellar and attic cleanouts and construction material at $320 a ton, with flat fees on the rest: $25 an appliance without Freon, $35 for a refrigerator, freezer, air conditioner, TV or monitor, $40 for a stickered mattress or box spring.
In practice that means a vehicle the couch fits in, someone to help you lift it, the sticker to get in and the fee at the scale. If you would rather not do that yourself, we do furniture removal across Marblehead.
Beverly: one bulky item a week, and nothing with Freon in it
Beverly's collection is Casella's, and you book by calling them at 800-227-3552. Casella picks up one bulky item per week, priced off its own list for Beverly: $55 for a chair, bureau, table or headboard and $75 for a sofa, white goods or a TV, with a 200-pound weight limit, and the list warns that a cleanout or a renovation may get you a dumpster instead.
The city's appliance page states Casella does not pick up anything containing Freon, so refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers are out at any price. And mattresses run through Tough Stuff Recycling, which the city contracted for curbside mattress and box spring pickup: you schedule and pay with them at 978-307-4118, then put the item out by 7am on your appointment day. The city publishes no curbside price. The two it does publish are drop-off rates, $22 a unit at Tough Stuff in Fitchburg and $30 at UTEC in Lowell, both by appointment. We take appliances and mattresses in Beverly on one trip.
Swampscott: the town stopped selling stickers
The town's bulk pickup page says Customer Service no longer sells bulk item stickers: Republic Services does the scheduling and takes the card at 781-289-0500. Pricing is posted in three tiers, $20 small, $40 to $60 medium, $80 large, and the town says tier descriptions are still coming, so ask before you agree.
Mattresses sit outside that. The mattress FAQ sells a $30 recycling sticker at Town Hall, 22 Monument Avenue, or online, one per mattress and one per box spring, collected the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Bulk stickers are not accepted for it. For appliances the town sends you to National Grid and publishes no fee of its own. Swampscott is five minutes from us, and Big Blue Bargains, where a lot of what we pull out ends up, is in town.
Peabody: $20 for a white good, and mattresses go to Farm Avenue
Peabody's White Goods Sticker is $20 and covers one item: air conditioners, refrigerators, washers, dryers, TVs, microwaves. Put the sticker where the crew can see it from the street, have the item out by 7am, and call Republic Services at 781-289-0500 by 3pm at least a day ahead. Or drive it to Public Services at 50 Farm Avenue, weekdays 7am to 4pm, with ID.
Mattresses left the curbside program when the state ban took effect. The city's mattress and box spring notice sells a $20 sticker per item for drop-off at the Peabody Recycling Center on Farm Avenue, and a mattress and a box spring count as two.
For a plain couch or a dresser, Peabody publishes no fee and no booking number I can link to. Call Public Services at 978-536-0600 and get it from them, not from me. We work across Peabody, and the transfer station we use most is there.
Danvers: one $20 sticker covers nearly everything
The bulky item page sells a $20 sticker at the Town Clerk's office, the Business Division at 2 Burroughs Street or online, covering furniture, carpet, white goods, water heaters, gas grills with the tank off, mowers and blowers drained of fluids, TVs, monitors, and, unusually, Freon appliances. Put the sticker on the item, call the number printed on it the day before your trash day, and have the item at the curb by 7am.
Mattresses are not covered: they go to UTEC at $40 an item, box spring counted separately. Metal and rigid plastics are not collected at the curb either, but you can bring them to the transfer station on East Coad Road, Monday to Saturday 7am to 4pm, where trash and metal are $0.17 a pound and a bulky item is $50. Old tires go back to the shop that sold you the new ones. That station will not take construction and demolition material at all, so for that the town points you to G. Mello Disposal in Georgetown at 978-352-8581. In Danvers the sticker is the better deal when you can get the item to the curb yourself.
Lynn: $20 at the curb, or free on a drop-off day
Lynn runs curbside bulk through Capitol Waste at $20 an item, booked on the Lynn hotline at 855-533-3400. The DPW also holds Bulk Waste Item Drop-Off Days at 247 Commercial Street, 8am to noon, the only days a bulk item goes free.
Otherwise the DPW at 250 Commercial Street takes drop-offs Monday to Thursday 8:30am to 2:30pm and Friday until 11:30am, Lynn residents with a license only. Posted rates there are $35 a mattress, $25 a TV or monitor, $5 a propane tank, and no paint, hazardous material or construction waste on drop-off days. On appliances the white goods page names Turner Inc as the partner but publishes no fee, and warns that leaving one at the curb is illegal disposal Inspectional Services can fine you for. Lynn is where the scrap metal off our trucks goes.
All six end at the same question
Five of the programs above collect only what is already at the curb, and Marblehead's transfer station takes only what you drive in yourself. Not one sends anyone into your basement, up your stairs or into your garage.
What decides it is whether you can get the item out of the house yourself. A box spring around a turning staircase or a washer up from a cellar is a two-person job, and it is how people hurt their backs. If you cannot, the sticker buys you nothing: on collection day the item is still where it was. That is why people call us after paying their town first.
The town is the cheaper choice for one or two items you can carry, with no deadline: a sticker and a phone call cost less than our $120 minimum, because the truck, the crew and the disposal trip cost the same whether we take one piece or ten. I would rather say that than take the job. Once there is more volume, something on the refused lists, a deadline or stairs, we are usually the better choice. An apartment cleanout at the end of a move is usually that kind of job, and we carry everything down from the unit. Past the minimum we are $70 to $100 per cubic yard, and closer to $70 when the load is light and we can walk straight to it, which a driveway or curbside pile often is.
The disposal bans worry people more than they should
Mattresses, white goods, whole tires and cathode ray tube TVs and monitors all sit on MassDEP's waste disposal ban list, mattresses since November 1, 2022, tires from landfills only. That is why they cost extra in every town above: somebody has to be paid to take them apart. What the list bans is disposal, and the compliance help MassDEP hangs on that page is written for haulers, businesses, property managers, municipalities and solid waste facility operators, which is where loads get inspected.
Not sure which one you need
Send a photo. Call or text 978-915-3399 and I will tell you straight whether it is a town job or a truck job. If the answer is buy a sticker and save the money, that is what I will say. We are based in Salem, licensed and insured, and often able to come same day.