The Midland Junk & Disposal Blog
Midland has more disposal options than most people realize — free City pickup for some items, two collection stations, a landfill on Garden City Highway — and every one of them comes with rules about who can use it, what it takes, and what it refuses.
These guides cover how disposal actually works in Midland and the Permian Basin: the schedules, the fees the City publishes, the items no truck will touch, and how to decide when a hauling crew is the better call.
September 28, 2026
Moving a Piano, Safe, or Pool Table Out of a Midland Home
The City of Midland will haul a refrigerator away at no charge. The heaviest single object in your house is not on that list — and every free route ends at the alley.
September 15, 2026
Tearing Down a Shed or Fence in Midland? Plan the Debris First
The City will haul a swing set away free, but it names fencing on the list of things it refuses. Here is every route a teardown pile can take, and where each one stops.
September 11, 2026
Clearing the Garage Before Listing Photos in Midland
A two-car garage holding one car photographs like a one-car garage. Midland's free disposal routes will empty it for nothing — on their schedule, not your photographer's.
September 8, 2026
Getting a Hot Tub, Swing Set, or Trampoline Out of a Midland Backyard
The swing set is on the City's free-pickup list by name. The trampoline isn't named, so you ask. The hot tub has no free route at all — it leaves in pieces, whoever cuts them. Three backyard heavyweights, three different exits.
September 1, 2026
Free Electronics Recycling in Midland: TVs and Computers
Texas puts the recycling bill for a TV or computer on the company whose name is on it. From Midland, the fine print is geography: most of those programs are a prepaid label or a drive, not a drop-off down the street.
September 1, 2026
Getting Rid of a Mattress in Midland: The Free Routes, and Where They Stop
The thrift store says no, the alley container is shared with the neighbors, and no one in Texas is paid to recycle it. A used mattress still has three legitimate exits in Midland. Two of them are free.
August 28, 2026
Hauling a Load to the City of Midland Landfill? Read This First
The landfill takes almost everything — but the hours, the access fee, and the resident-only alternative a few miles away change the math on a DIY run.
August 28, 2026
Midland Picks Up Furniture and Appliances Free — Here's the Fine Print
Yes, the City will take that couch at no charge. The catch is in three places: where the item has to sit, who carries it there, and how long the queue runs.
August 28, 2026
What Midland's Trash Trucks Won't Take — and What to Do Instead
The cart and the alley container have a shorter accepted list than most people think. Here is the City's prohibited list, item by item, with the legal way out for each.
August 28, 2026
Illegal Dumping in Texas Is Graded by the Pound — Here's the Ladder
Texas Health & Safety Code 365.012 turns a dumped load's weight into an offense class, and hauling for pay moves every threshold down. The ladder, explained.
August 28, 2026
Container or Crew: Two Ways to Move a Remodel's Debris
Every Midland renovation ends with a pile the trash route won't touch. The real decision is whether the labor of loading is yours or someone else's.
August 28, 2026
Getting Rid of a Refrigerator in Midland: Why It's a Special Case
A dead fridge is not just heavy — it is the one household item with a federal disposal rule attached. Here is what the law requires and who handles it in Midland.
August 28, 2026
The Tenant Is Gone, the Stuff Isn't: Turnover Cleanouts in Midland
Midland's rental market moves with the oil economy, and a unit earns nothing while it is full of a stranger's furniture. The free disposal routes mostly stop at this door.
August 28, 2026
Outside the City Limits: Junk Disposal for Greenwood and the County
Midland's free disposal programs stop at the city line. For county addresses, the choices narrow to a landfill run during gate hours — or a crew that comes to you.