Spring and summer are a time for people to do deep house cleaning, estate sales, or move to a new home. If you're one of these people, you may need extra help to take care of unwanted items. Thanks to professional haulers, you don't have to keep loading your car to go to your local landfill. However, you should be aware they won't take just anything and everything from your home. Here are some tips on what you can and can't give to your local junk removal professional.

Flammable Items

For obvious safety reasons, you shouldn't pack anything that's flammable. Flammable items will include gas, paint solvents, and various other chemicals. After all, if something were to ignite the item, it would quickly spread a fire to all the other items in the container or truck.

Electronics

Life in the current digital age means that people are constantly upgrading their devices. These items are often attached to recycling programs by their manufacturers. For example, Apple computers have a well-known trade-in program that allows you to get a discount on a new computer or at least let the computer be recycled and refurbished for other uses. According to This Old House, electronic removal only costs an average of $20, making electronics an affordable thing to get rid of. Electronics aren't usually taken because they'll sit in a landfill for decades, and don't break down well.

Medical Devices

Do you have used medical items in your home, such as syringes? Anything used for medical purposes that may have blood, urine, or other bodily fluids should not be dumped with regular junk hauling. These things should go to a specific medical facility that has the resources to discard them safely. You should be discarding them in a special container in your home as well. After all, you don't want a worker to prick themselves on a needle or fluid that could spread disease or bacteria.

Now is the perfect time to clear your property of any useless items. Just be mindful of what you should and shouldn't put within their containers. After all, you don't want a junk removal service to leave items behind because they can't haul them away. If you have questions about the junk removal process and need a reliable professional, contact Extreme Junk LLC anytime.