What You Can and Can’t Throw Away in an Austin Cleanout
A cleanout sounds simple until you start moving things into piles. One stack is obvious: broken chairs, old boxes, and the treadmill nobody has used since 2019. Another stack gets murkier fast: paint cans, a mattress, a half-full propane tank, a cracked TV, and a freezer that stopped running sometime during the last heat wave. In Austin, what you can throw away during a cleanout is shaped by a mix of common sense, local disposal rules, recycling options, and the practica