Appliance removal is recycling or finding new life for your old appliances. Every year, millions of homeowners, restaurants, apartment complexes and other businesses replace their old, inefficient, broken or appliances with new appliances designed to be more efficient and more attractive. New appliances don’t just look better – they’re more efficient – and that’s better for the planet.

The biggest obstacle with appliance removal is that it is almost never a DIY project. Most large appliances weigh too much for one person to safely move. And even with two people the job still requires proper equipment like a hand truck or furniture dolly, furniture straps, and to be taped to keep the lids and panels closed while in transit so your walls and doorways do not get damaged.

Unlike regular “garbage” that can be dragged to the curb and picked up by municipal waste collectors, appliances need to be disposed of in specific ways. That includes refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners that contain ozone-depleting refrigerants.

And finally appliance removal means moving it out of the house and up into the back of the truck or onto the trailer to be transported to a recycling center.