Here's the thing nobody tells you at the curb: North Carolina banned televisions and computers from landfills in 2011. The trash truck won't take it, the city's free e-waste run is capped at four items a week, and the drop-off hours never match yours. We pick your TV up off the wall, out of the bonus room, or out of the garage where it's been living since the last upgrade — flat from $84, and it rides to a certified e-waste recycler.
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Same-day is usually open across Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill and RTP. Office job? We book the dock and the elevator with your property manager.
Off the bracket, down the stairs, padded in the truck, delivered to a certified electronics recycler. Never the landfill — legally can't be.
Priced by screen size, flat, and quoted before anyone drives out. Unmounting, the carry-out and the certified recycling are already in the number — and a tube or rear-projection set costs the same as a flat panel of the same size class.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Stereo / receiver component | $70 |
| Large speaker | $77 |
| Monitor | $78 |
| Printer (small / desktop) | $78 |
| Desktop tower | $83 |
| TV under 42" | $84 |
| TV 42"–65" | $91 |
| TV 65"+ (incl. rear-projection & console) | $98 |
| Mixed box of small electronics | $104 |
$75 minimum order. A single $70 stereo component on its own bills at the $75 minimum, so small e-waste is worth grouping — the cables, the router, the game consoles and the cable-box graveyard fit in one $104 box. Clearing a media room or a home office? Send one photo of the whole pile and we price it as one job. North Carolina charges no sales tax on the service.
For comparison: local hauler McJunk publishes a $10-per-CRT-television surcharge on top of its truck-volume tiers, which is standard practice in this category because tube and rear-projection sets are heavy and expensive to recycle. We don't add one — $98 covers the 300-pound console the same as it covers a 70-inch flat panel. Traditional full-service haulers price the whole visit by how much of the truck you fill, commonly landing in the $150–$600+ range and usually confirming only once they're in your living room.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular trash / bulky pickup | — | Never | Not an option at all — TVs and computers are on NC's landfill disposal ban list; the set gets left at your curb |
| City of Raleigh curbside e-waste | Free | Scheduled, weekly | 4 items per week, curbside-only, city trash customers only — and you carry the set out to the curb yourself |
| Self-haul to an electronics recycler | Free to low | Same day, if you're free | Weekday hours, a truck, a dolly and a second person; a rear-projection console does not fit in a sedan |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$150–$600+ (plus CRT surcharges — McJunk publishes $10/tube TV) | 1–3 days | Priced by truck fill and usually confirmed on site, not before |
| JunkRabbit | $84 flat (from) | Same day | None — flat by size, no item cap, no CRT surcharge, we unmount and carry it out, certified recycling |
Not with your garbage, and that part isn't the city being difficult — it's state law. Televisions and computer equipment sit on North Carolina's landfill disposal ban list, along with appliances and white goods, whole tires, lead-acid batteries, used motor oil, yard trash, aluminum cans, #1–7 rigid plastics, pallets and fluorescent and mercury-containing lamps. Old screens carry lead, mercury and flame retardants, so burying them was outlawed. The practical effect at your house: a TV set out with the trash simply doesn't get taken. It sits there.
What the city does offer is genuinely useful, and we'll say so: Raleigh Solid Waste Services runs free curbside electronics collection for its trash customers (919-996-3245). If you have one flat panel you can carry to the curb, use it — it costs nothing and it's the right answer. The problem is the fine print, and there are three lines of it. It's scheduled, so you're waiting on a set collection day rather than clearing the room today. It's curbside-only, so the burden of getting the set out of the house is entirely yours. And it's capped at four items per week.
That cap is where most real jobs fall over. A media-room teardown is a 75-inch set, a receiver, a pair of tower speakers, a subwoofer, a game console and the cable-box drawer — that's week one and week two of your allowance, minimum. A home-office downsize is four monitors, two towers, a printer and a scanner: past the cap before you've touched the TV. And the single most common call we get in Raleigh is the one the program flatly cannot help with — the 300-pound rear-projection console in the bonus room over the garage, which is one item under the cap but physically impossible for one person to move down a flight of stairs and out to the street. Then there's everyone the program doesn't cover at all: apartment and condo residents on private hauling, Cary and Apex and Wake Forest households, businesses of any kind. For all of that, we come to the room the screen is in, take it off the wall, carry it out, and haul it — no cap, no schedule, one flat price.
It goes to a certified electronics recycler — not a landfill, not a transfer station, not "somewhere." That isn't a green talking point on this page; it's the only lawful destination under the state ban, and it's the reason e-waste costs more to handle than a piece of furniture of the same size. At the recycler the set is de-manufactured: the leaded glass, the circuit boards, the copper, the steel and the plastics get separated and recovered, and the mercury-containing backlights in older LCD panels are pulled and handled as regulated waste rather than crushed.
If there's a hard drive in the load — a desktop tower, an old laptop, a networked printer — say so when you book. Those go to a recycler that handles data-bearing media, and if you'd rather not rely on anyone else's process, pulling the drive before we arrive takes four screws and is always the safest answer. For a business clear-out in RTP or a downtown office, we can arrange documentation of the recycling chain for your facilities or compliance team.
North Carolina homes are built on crawl spaces and slabs, not basements, which is why the dead TV in this market is almost never "downstairs." It's in the bonus room over the garage, up one narrow flight with a hard turn at the top. Or it's in the garage, wedged behind the shelving since the day the new one was mounted. Or it's in a walk-up attic in an older Five Points or Historic Oakwood house, where the stairs are steep, the treads are original, and you'd rather nobody put a foot through a 1920s baluster. We plan for all three: two crew on anything over 65 inches, straps, blankets, and floor protection on heart pine.
Condos change the problem again. Downtown, Glenwood South, the Warehouse District and North Hills mean a loading dock, a reserved elevator window, and occasionally a certificate of insurance for the building — far less formal than a New York high-rise, but we file it when the property manager asks. And on the commercial side, an RTP office floor is its own species of job: rows of monitors and towers, conference-room displays coming off the wall, a printer room, and a hard deadline tied to a lease or a refresh cycle. We quote it from photos, work after hours when the tenant needs it, and take the whole floor's worth at once.
"Put the old TV at the curb, learned about the ban via a city sticker. These guys took it off the curb AND the dead one in the guest room, recycled both, done by lunch."
"65-inch mounted above the fireplace plus my dad's rear-projection monster in the bonus room over the garage. They unmounted one, wrestled the other down the stairs, and my back thanks them."
"Cleared four monitors, two towers and a printer after our home office downsize. One flat price, certificate that it went to a real recycler. Easy."
How much does TV disposal cost in Raleigh?
Flat by size: under 42" $84, 42–65" $91, 65"+ and rear-projection $98. Riders price the same way — monitor $78, tower $83, small printer $78, stereo component $70, large speaker $77, mixed box of small electronics $104. $75 minimum order. Unmounting, carry-out and certified recycling included; no NC sales tax.
Can I put a TV at the curb in Raleigh?
No. TVs and computers are on North Carolina's landfill disposal ban list, so household trash and bulky collection won't take them — the set gets left behind. It has to go to an electronics recycler.
Doesn't Raleigh offer free e-waste pickup?
It does — free, scheduled, curbside-only, capped at four items a week, and only for city trash customers. Great for one flat panel you can carry out yourself. Useless for a console TV you can't lift, a media-room teardown, or an office clear-out.
Will you take a huge old rear-projection TV out of the bonus room?
Gladly — it's one of our most common calls. Two crew, straps, down the stairs, $98 flat, no weight surcharge.
Is there a CRT or tube-TV surcharge?
Not with us. Some Triangle haulers publish one — McJunk lists $10 per CRT television on top of its truck tiers. Our size price is the whole price.
Do you take other electronics with the TV?
Yes — monitors, towers, printers, stereo gear, speakers, and a boxed pile of cables, routers and consoles. Everything rides to certified recycling together.
Do you unmount a wall-mounted TV?
Yes, and the bracket too if you want the wall clear. It's part of the job, not an add-on.
Can you handle a whole office e-waste clear-out in RTP?
Yes — floor refreshes on the RTP campuses, conference-room displays, printer rooms and monitor rows, quoted from photos with dock and elevator coordination and documented recycling.