Cardboard removal in Salt Lake City

Cardboard and packaging removal in Salt Lake City is for the pile that shows up after the good part. The new sectional is in the living room, or the shelves are stocked for opening day, and now there's a garage or a back hallway full of boxes and foam nobody has time to break down. Jeremy hauls it off. Homeowners call after a move or a furniture delivery. Store managers and warehouse leads call after a restock. The job is the same both times. The packaging leaves and the cardboard gets recycled.

Jeremy runs Salt City Junk Haulers out of Midvale with his pickup and trailer. Cardboard is light, so the trailer swallows a lot of it, especially once the boxes are flat. The foam corners, the bubble wrap, the plastic strapping and the pallet the fridge came on all go too. Pricing starts from a photo. Text a photo to (801) 557-1063 and he'll send back a number. Most jobs get done within a few days, and he shows up inside a one-hour window, any day of the week.

This page covers the box pile on its own. If the move-out left more than cardboard behind, the old couch and the bags nobody labeled, that's regular junk hauling and Jeremy takes it on the same trip. For stores and offices with a loading dock or a dumpster that's already packed with flattened boxes, see commercial junk removal. If the whole garage needs to go, boxes included, that's a garage cleanout.

What goes on the truck

• Moving boxes, flat or not
• Furniture and appliance cartons
• Foam blocks and bubble wrap
• Stretch wrap and plastic strapping
• Wood pallets and crates
• Packing paper and peanuts
• Restock cardboard from the stockroom

Text a photo of your pile to (801) 557-1063.

The full list of what goes on the truck, and what doesn't.

What's usually in the pile

After a household move it's a few dozen boxes, half of them still taped, plus wardrobe boxes and the foam sheets the TV came in. After a furniture or appliance delivery it's the giant carton, foam corner blocks, stretch wrap and sometimes a pallet, because the delivery crew unboxed the fridge in the driveway and left the rest. Store openings and warehouse restocks run bigger: stacks of flattened cardboard, shrink wrap off the pallets, plastic strapping and the pallets themselves leaning against the back wall. Jeremy takes all of it. Packing peanuts go too. The old mattress or the old fridge can go on the same trip too, as an add-on.

How Jeremy loads it

Most box piles are in the garage or by the back door. Jeremy backs the trailer as close as the driveway allows and breaks down whatever's still square. A stack already out on the driveway or at the curb is the quickest load and keeps the number down; a stack still in the back hallway is fine; he'll carry it out. Flat cardboard gets stacked tight against the wooden sides so nothing catches wind on I-15. Foam and plastic get bagged or tucked under the cardboard. Pallets go in last. If the pile is in the alley behind a Sugar House bungalow or an alley-loaded garage in Daybreak, he loads from the alley and leaves the front of the house alone. A third-floor apartment with no elevator is the stairs add-on, +$25, and he carries it down himself. For a store or a warehouse, he works from the dock or the back door and checks with the manager on timing so the trailer isn't sitting where the delivery truck needs to be. Send the photo from the angle he'll be loading from, and mention the alley or the stairs.

Where it all ends up

Cardboard gets recycled. A soaked or greasy box can't be, so that one goes to the landfill with the foam. Foam blocks, bubble wrap, packing peanuts and stretch wrap go to the landfill. Wood pallets ride with the load. Anything still usable that turned up in the boxes during the move, dishes or the spare bedding, goes to a donation center before the trailer heads for the dump.

How Jeremy prices a box pile

Jeremy prices from a photo. Text a photo to (801) 557-1063 and he'll send back a number before he drives anywhere. Cardboard is light and it flattens, so a garage full of moving boxes is usually a small load that lands at or near the minimum. Volume is what pushes it up. A store's opening-week haul with a couple dozen pallets and a mountain of shrink wrap is a different job than the boxes from one sectional, and the photo is how he tells the two apart. A third-floor carry, or the old mattress going out with the new one's packaging, is counted in the number he texts. He takes cash, card or Venmo once the trailer's loaded. The pricing guide has the full breakdown.

What he won't take on a packaging job

Packaging jobs are simple, but a few things get mixed into the pile that Jeremy has to leave behind. Paint cans and cleaning chemicals get boxed up during a move and set out with the cardboard more often than people think. Those don't go on the trailer. Salt Lake County's household hazardous waste program takes them. A hot tub delivery leaves a crate and a pallet, and those go, but the old hot tub stays where it is. Boxes somebody filled with landscaping rock or old bricks to get them off the patio don't go either. Anything that needs a shovel stays off the trailer. A few chunks of broken concrete can sometimes ride along, but a whole patio can't. Everything else in a normal box pile is fair game, including the ripped-open mattress bag and the TV carton.

Why the blue can doesn't cover it

The blue curbside can only holds so much flattened cardboard, and a move's worth of boxes doesn't come close to fitting. That means weeks of feeding it in a few at a time while the rest of the pile waits. An HOA may not want a box pile sitting by the garage that long. Most people texting Jeremy don't have a truck and a free Saturday, which is the whole reason he gets the call.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (801) 557-1063. Jeremy looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate, and the number doesn't change once it's loaded. Jobs start at $100. The only add-ons: mattress or box spring +$40, fridge or freezer +$25, stairs +$25. He tells you before he starts. More on what junk removal costs in Salt Lake City.

Where Jeremy does this

All of the Salt Lake Valley. See every town Jeremy covers for cardboard and packaging removal.