Washington bans TVs, monitors and computers from the garbage, so the curb isn't an option and neither is the dump. Small TV $84 flat, medium $91, large $98, monitor $78 — quoted from a photo. We carry it down from wherever it is and route it to WA E-Cycle, the state's free manufacturer-funded recycling program. You're paying for the carry, not for the tipping.
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Same-day is usually open, no surcharge. Office job in a tower? Tell us the building and we file the COI and book the freight elevator.
The crew lifts it from the room — third floor, wall mount, under a desk — and takes it to WA E-Cycle collection. Nothing goes to the landfill stream.
Flat by size, from your photo. The number covers the carry-out and the drive to an E-Cycle collection point. Electronics are our cheapest category precisely because the recycling itself is free — we're not passing along a tipping fee, only the labour and the truck.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Stereo / receiver | $70 |
| Large speaker | $77 |
| Monitor | $78 |
| Printer (small / desktop) | $78 |
| Desktop computer | $83 |
| TV — small | $84 |
| TV — medium | $91 |
| TV — large | $98 |
| Mixed e-waste (boxed) | $104 |
The $95 minimum matters most on this page, so let's be plain about it: a single small TV is priced at $84, which is below the $95 minimum — so one small TV on its own bills at $95, because $95 is the floor for dispatching a truck and a crew anywhere in the metro. The moment there's a second item, everything prices at its own number. That's why most people send us the TV plus the old monitor, the dead printer, and the media console together. A whole office or basement of electronics prices as truck-fill instead — quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarters $790, full $985.
Third-party context: cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325, across a range of about $170–$433. A single TV at $84–$98 sits far below that, because you're paying per item rather than for a guess at truck volume.
On tax: Washington does not apply its retail sales tax to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax (RCW 82.18) rides on the disposal portion of a job — and electronics routed to E-Cycle aren't disposal, so they sit outside it.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA E-Cycle drop-off | Free | Business hours | You haul it — into a car, across town, and through the door. Roughly 10 units per visit. |
| Retailer / manufacturer takeback | Free to modest | Varies | Program- and brand-specific, often tied to buying a replacement; rarely covers a 20-year-old CRT |
| Donation or resale | Free | Days–weeks | Working, reasonably current sets only — nobody takes a dead panel or a tube TV |
| SPU curbside special-items pickup | Not available | — | Won't take it at any price. TVs, monitors and computers are banned from Washington garbage |
| Self-haul to a transfer station | $40.25 min load (King County) + $25 if unsecured | An afternoon | Stations won't accept e-waste as garbage — you'd be driving there to be turned away |
| Traditional full-service franchise | ~$130–$400 single item | 1–3 days | On-site estimate only; no firm number until a crew is in your living room |
| JunkRabbit | $84–$98 flat per TV | Same day | None — flat photo price, carried out of the unit, routed to E-Cycle |
Read that table honestly and the choice is simple: if you can carry the TV to a car, E-Cycle is free and you should use it. We're the answer for the sets you can't — the 65-inch panel on the third floor, the CRT nobody can lift, the office wall of monitors, the estate with eight of them.
No — and this one isn't a scheduling limitation, it's the law. In Washington, televisions, computers, laptops and monitors are banned from the garbage statewide. Seattle Public Utilities' curbside special-items pickup, which will happily take a couch or a mattress for $30 an item (seattle.gov/specialitems), will not take a TV at any price. Seattle backs this up with the SMC 21.36 recyclables ban, which tags loads arriving more than 10% contaminated — so putting a monitor in a mixed load isn't a shortcut either. Transfer stations won't accept electronics as ordinary garbage, which means the "just take it to the dump" plan ends with a turnaround at the scale house.
What Washington built instead is genuinely good, and we'd rather tell you about it than pretend it doesn't exist. WA E-Cycle recycles TVs, monitors, laptops and computers free statewide, funded by the manufacturers, at roughly 10 units per visit — details at ecyclewa.org or 1-800-RECYCLE. If your TV fits in your car and you have a weekday afternoon, that program is the right answer and it costs nothing.
Here's the actual gap, stated straight: E-Cycle is free, but it's a drop-off. The program doesn't come to you. It won't climb three flights of a Capitol Hill walk-up to collect a wall-mounted 65-inch panel. It won't clear a South Lake Union office of thirty monitors, or empty a U-District apartment during move-out week, or handle the four tube TVs in a Wallingford basement that have been there since 2004 and weigh 90 pounds each. A CRT doesn't fit in a Prius, and a collection site closes at five.
So what you're buying from us is the carry and the trip — not the recycling, which stays free. We route your electronics into E-Cycle exactly the way you would have, and because that diversion costs us nothing to tip, this is the cheapest category on our price list. That's also why we can tell you honestly to skip us if the TV is small enough to carry yourself.
It goes to WA E-Cycle collection — the manufacturer-funded state program — where a TV is separated into its parts: leaded glass from CRTs handled under controlled processes, circuit boards recovered for their copper and precious metals, plastic housings and steel chassis sent to their own streams. It's the same destination you'd drive it to yourself; the difference is that a crew carried it out of your unit first.
Because Washington bans these items from the garbage, nothing we take under this service enters the King County landfill stream at all. That has a knock-on effect worth knowing: King County garbage tips at $243.38 a ton in 2026, one of the priciest disposal rates in the country, and the 3.6% Washington refuse tax is calculated on the disposal portion of a job. Electronics routed to E-Cycle carry no per-ton fee and sit outside that tax base entirely. When furniture or an appliance rides along on the same trip, we source-separate there too — metal to scrap, clean wood apart from garbage — which is what Seattle's SMC 21.36 contamination rule requires and what keeps the flat price honest.
The tech cycle. South Lake Union is Amazon's home campus and Redmond is Microsoft's; between hiring waves, layoffs and relocations, the region churns hardware and furniture continuously. Monitors, docking stations, desktops, standing desks and Pelotons leave condos and offices in a steady stream, and a relocation rarely leaves time for a weekday drive to a collection site. Fremont's office belt — Google and Adobe among them — produces the same job at smaller scale, as do the startups scattered through Belltown and Pioneer Square.
The walk-up. Capitol Hill and First Hill are dense with early-1900s buildings that have three floors and no elevator. A 65-inch panel or an old projection TV coming down that stairwell is a two-person job, and there's no stair fee for it. Queen Anne adds an ~18–19% grade on the avenue if the truck has to park downhill — also not a surcharge.
The student turnover. The U-District empties twice a year, and cheap electronics are a large part of what's left behind — dorm TVs, monitors, printers, speakers — alongside the mattresses and the flat-pack furniture.
The basement. Seattle has basements, which is where dead electronics go to wait. The Craftsman stock in Ballard, Wallingford and Ravenna reliably holds a tube TV, a CRT monitor and a dead printer under the stairs, in a damp room, at the bottom of a narrow flight.
The tower. Downtown, Belltown, SLU, First Hill and downtown Bellevue buildings want a Certificate of Insurance naming management, typically $1M general liability, and a freight elevator reserved days in advance. We file it and book it; the quote doesn't change.
"Three old TVs and a pile of monitors gone, recycled through E-Cycle. Flat price from a photo. Easy."
"Cleared out the home office e-waste with the furniture in one quote. Fast and fair."
"Old tube TV nobody would take — they hauled it and recycled it right. Glad it didn't go to the landfill."
How much does TV removal cost in Seattle?
Small TV $84, medium $91, large $98; monitor $78, desktop $83, small printer $78, stereo $70, large speaker $77, boxed mixed e-waste $104. The $95 minimum applies to a single-item trip — so one small TV alone bills at $95. Two or more items price at their own numbers.
Can I put a TV in the garbage in Washington?
No. TVs, monitors, laptops and computers are banned from Washington garbage statewide. SPU's curbside special-items pickup won't take them at any price, and Seattle's SMC 21.36 ban tags loads over 10% contaminated.
Isn't recycling free through WA E-Cycle?
Yes, and we'll say so: E-Cycle is free, manufacturer-funded, about 10 units per visit (ecyclewa.org / 1-800-RECYCLE). What's free is the recycling, not the lifting. If the TV fits in your car, use E-Cycle. If it's a 65-inch panel on the third floor or a wall of office monitors, that's us.
Do you take CRT tube TVs?
Yes — tube and rear-projection sets, priced by size like any other TV, carried down the stairs so you never lift one.
Can you clear a whole office?
Yes. Per-item for a handful of pieces, or truck-fill for a full clear-out ($325 quarter, $580 half, $790 three-quarter, $985 full). COI and freight-elevator booking handled for Downtown, Belltown, SLU and downtown-Bellevue buildings.
Is it cheaper than a full-service franchise?
Usually, for electronics, and always more predictable — franchise pricing is by truck volume with on-site estimates, published around $130–$400 for a single large item. Ours is $84–$98 flat per TV, fixed from your photo.
Where does it end up?
WA E-Cycle collection — glass, metals, plastics and boards separated for recycling. Nothing under this service enters the King County landfill stream.
Is there sales tax on the service?
No Washington retail sales tax applies to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse tax under RCW 82.18 applies only to the disposal portion, and E-Cycle diversion isn't disposal.
No. Televisions, computers, laptops and monitors are banned from the garbage statewide in Washington. Seattle Public Utilities' curbside special-items pickup will not take them at any price, and Seattle's SMC 21.36 recyclables ban tags loads that arrive more than 10 percent contaminated. Transfer stations will not accept e-waste as ordinary garbage either. They have to go through an approved recycling channel.
Yes, and we will say so plainly: WA E-Cycle recycles TVs, monitors, laptops and computers free of charge statewide, funded by manufacturers, at roughly ten units per visit — details at ecyclewa.org or 1-800-RECYCLE. What is free is the recycling, not the labour. You still have to get a 65-inch TV or a stack of CRTs into a vehicle, drive it to a collection site during business hours, and carry it in. E-Cycle will not climb three flights of a Capitol Hill walk-up or clear a South Lake Union office. That carry is what you are paying us for, and because the drop-off itself costs us nothing to tip, we can hold a low flat price on it.
To WA E-Cycle collection, the manufacturer-funded state program, where the glass, metals, plastics and circuit boards are separated for recycling. Because Washington bans these items from the garbage, nothing we take under this service enters the King County landfill stream at all — and since the 3.6% Washington refuse tax is calculated on the disposal portion of a job, diverted electronics sit outside that tax base entirely.
Yes. Tube TVs and rear-projection sets are the hardest items to get rid of in Seattle — nobody wants them, they are heavy and awkward, and they cannot legally go in the trash. They price the same as any other TV by size, and we carry them down the stairs so you never have to wrestle one into a car.
Yes. Office e-waste is one of our most common Seattle jobs — the South Lake Union and Redmond tech cycle pushes monitors, desktops, docking stations, standing desks and exercise bikes out constantly, and Fremont's office belt does the same at smaller scale. Individual pieces price per item, and a full office clear-out prices as truck-fill: quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarters $790, full $985. Downtown, Belltown, SLU and downtown Bellevue buildings usually want a COI and a booked freight-elevator window, which we handle.
For electronics it usually is, and it is always more predictable. Franchises price by how much of the truck you fill and typically only commit on site; published figures for a single large item run roughly $130 to $400. A small TV with us is $84 flat, quoted from your photo, with the carry-out and the E-Cycle routing included, subject to the $95 single-item minimum.
Washington does not apply its retail sales tax to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18 applies to the disposal portion of a job — and electronics routed to E-Cycle are not disposal, so they fall outside it.