Bulk trash pickup limits in Broward County are set city by city, not by the county, and they are smaller than almost anyone expects. Coral Springs allows 6 cubic yards per bulk day with no more than 2 of it construction debris. Pompano Beach allows 4 cubic yards a week. Margate and Tamarac allow 3. Boca Raton allows 2. Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park allow 10, but only once a month. Go over the cap and the pile gets tagged and left, which is the moment most people first call a hauler. Free quote: (954) 774-0277.
Every cap in the service area
Each of these comes from the city or its contracted hauler. The pattern is the same everywhere: household bulk is generous enough, and everything you actually want gone is on the exclusion list.
| City | How often | Free limit | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coconut Creek | Weekly (Republic) | No published cubic-yard cap | No electronics, nothing in a cardboard box or paper bag, no roofing, tile, concrete, brick or stone |
| Coral Springs | Weekly (Coastal) | 6 cu yd | Only 2 of the 6 may be construction debris. Two tires max. Bulk and vegetation in separate piles |
| Pompano Beach | Weekly (city crews) | 4 cu yd | No construction debris at all. Two scheduled 16 cu yd pickups a year, booked in advance |
| Margate | Weekly (Republic) | 3 cu yd | No electronics, tires, lawnmowers or construction debris |
| Tamarac | Weekly single-family, monthly for condos | 3 cu yd bulk and yard combined | No shingles, tile, drywall, concrete or brick. Nothing a contractor or landscaper generated |
| Deerfield Beach | Weekly | 7 cu yd | No construction debris or wood products, no landscaper debris. Residents may self-haul 2 cu yd a week to the SW 4th Street centre |
| Parkland | Monthly (12 a year) | 15 cu yd | Generous cap, worthless on day two of the cycle. No land-clearing or demolition debris, no stumps, no glass or mirrors |
| Fort Lauderdale | Monthly (WM) | 10 cu yd | Citation if the pile is out more than 24 hours early or left 24 hours after. No stumps. No combining with a neighbour |
| Oakland Park | Monthly | 10 cu yd | No construction or demolition debris. In a month with five Mondays there is no collection that week, stretching the gap to six |
| Sunrise | Weekly | Household bulk | Refuses construction, remodeling and demolition debris outright, including concrete and brick. Doors off all appliances |
| Plantation | Weekly | 15 cu yd | No construction debris. Carpet flattened and tied under 50 lbs, trimmings cut to 6 ft under 50 lbs |
| Lighthouse Point | Twice a week (WM) | Household bulk | No construction material, boats, vehicle parts, dirt, sand, pavers, concrete, masonry or tile. The city can bill you for contractor debris |
| Boca Raton | Weekly | 2 cu yd | The tightest free allowance in the region. Bulk must be separate from vegetation. Paid pickup exists above the allowance |
| Delray Beach | Weekly (WM) | Standard residential load | Fridges, freezers and A/C need certified freon removal plus a sticker. No C and D, tires or trunks |
| Boynton Beach | Weekly | 3 cu yd bulk, 3 cu yd vegetation | Construction debris capped at ONE cubic yard a week. Anything mixed into the vegetation pile has to be pulled back out by you |
How big is a cubic yard, really?
One cubic yard is a cube three feet on every side. Once you can picture it you can audit your own pile from the driveway. The cities publish their own equivalents, which is the fastest sanity check there is.
- A standard washing machine is about a cubic yard. Margate describes its 3-yard cap as three washers side by side.
- Coral Springs puts its 6 yards at about six kitchen stoves, or three refrigerators.
- Pompano Beach publishes its 4-yard cap as a pile roughly 6 ft long, 4 ft wide and 4 ft high.
- Fort Lauderdale publishes its 10 yards as 15 ft long, 6 ft wide and 3 ft high. Oakland Park calls the same volume about the size of a mid-size sedan.
- Plantation calls its 15 yards about the size of a VW Bug.
A sofa, a mattress set and a dresser clear three cubic yards without trying. That is an entire Margate or Tamarac week in one trip to the curb, which is why the caps bite harder than they read.
The exclusion lists are where people actually get caught
Almost nobody exceeds the cap on furniture. What gets a pile tagged is one item on the refused list sitting on top of an otherwise legal load.
- Electronics. Coconut Creek names electronics as excluded. Coral Springs excludes electronics with batteries. Margate excludes them outright. A TV on top of a legal pile is enough to get the whole thing skipped.
- Construction and demolition debris. Excluded outright in Pompano Beach, Margate, Tamarac, Sunrise, Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Parkland, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, Plantation, Delray Beach and Boca Raton. Capped at 2 cubic yards in Coral Springs and 1 in Boynton Beach. One bathroom demo is over the line in every city on that list.
- Tires. Coral Springs takes two per pickup. Margate and Delray Beach take none.
- Landscaper and contractor debris. Deerfield Beach, Tamarac, Boca Raton, Sunrise and Lighthouse Point all exclude anything a paid crew generated. It is commercial waste the moment somebody was paid to create it.
- Mixed piles. Coral Springs, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Margate and Lighthouse Point all require bulk and vegetation in separate piles. Mixing them is the single most common reason a pile is skipped.
The county drop-off trap
Broward County runs three electronics drop-off centres: North at 2780 N. Powerline Road in Pompano Beach, Central at 5490 Reese Road in Davie, South at 5601 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd in West Park. Saturdays only, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., proof of residency required. Here is the part that ends a Saturday at the gate: they serve participating municipalities only. Margate, Parkland, Lighthouse Point and Oakland Park are in. Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Tamarac, Sunrise, Plantation and Fort Lauderdale are not, and the North centre sits inside Pompano Beach city limits, which does not help a single Pompano resident.
What happens if you leave an over-limit pile out anyway
- Coral Springs tags the pile, leaves it, and leaves haul-away instructions with it. Residents get three oversized piles per fiscal year, July through June. Beyond that an overage charge applies per cubic yard.
- Fort Lauderdale can cite you for material placed more than 24 hours early or left more than 24 hours after your scheduled pickup.
- Deerfield Beach issues a courtesy notice. A tagged pile not corrected within 24 hours is collected anyway and invoiced to the property.
- Pompano Beach requires appointment-based pickups to be scheduled before the material goes out, or you risk a Code Compliance violation.
- Boca Raton offers a paid pickup above the free two yards, billed as a minimum plus a per-cubic-yard charge. That is why most Boca cleanouts never touch the city program.
Timing rules void a pile as fast as volume does. Coconut Creek wants it out before 7 a.m. and never more than 24 hours early. Pompano Beach wants it out after 5 p.m. the evening before. Margate allows three days. Plantation allows the Saturday before. Parkland allows 48 hours, or 72 if the window crosses a weekend. Oakland Park allows Sunday for a Monday 7 a.m. start.
When calling a hauler is the better move
Free is free. If your pile fits the cap and can wait until collection day, wait. The math only changes when the pile is over the line, on the wrong side of a door, or on a deadline.
| If your pile is… | What the city does | What that leaves you |
|---|---|---|
| Under the cap and already at the curb | Takes it free on your bulk day | Nothing to do. Wait for the truck. We say the same thing on the phone |
| One bulky item over the cap | Tags it or skips the whole pile | A minimum-load call, worth adding whatever else you have been meaning to lose |
| A sofa, a table and boxes over the cap | Tags it or skips the whole pile | Around a quarter truck, cleared in one visit instead of three collection days |
| A one-car garage | Past every cap in the county | Around half a truck, and none of it has to reach the curb first |
| A packed two-car garage | Past every cap in the county | Three-quarters of a truck or more, usually a single booked morning |
| Bathroom, kitchen or flooring tear-out | Refused outright in most of these cities | A weight-driven load. Dense material hits the limit before it fills the bed |
| A whole house or an estate | Not a curbside job in any city here | Multiple truckloads, staged over a day or two around a closing date |
Whatever the row, the number is quoted free on site and in writing before anything is loaded. Nobody who quotes over the phone has seen your pile. Tear-out debris the city already refused is construction debris removal, and how junk removal pricing works explains what sets the number.
The honest version
Most weeks you do not need us. Put it at the curb, keep it under the cap, keep vegetation in its own pile, and the city takes it for nothing. Call a hauler when the pile is over the line, when it is still inside the garage, when the city has refused it, or when you have a closing date and the next bulk day is three weeks out. City rules are on the Coconut Creek, Coral Springs and Margate pages.
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