1. We look at the actual pile
Estimates happen in front of the junk, not over the phone from a guess. We look at the real volume, the real weight and the real carry before quoting.
Founded 2022 · Somerset County
Two owners who stilldo the lifting
Apex Junk Removal is the junk and cleanout side of Apex Exterior Services — a local crew out of Bridgewater. No franchise, no call center. You speak to the person who will be standing in your garage.
Our story
How Apex started
Chris Geremia and Kenny Benson started Apex in 2022, during their senior year at Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School. It began as three small outfits — Apex Washing, Apex Lawn Care and Apex Snow Removal — run by two people who did every job themselves.
Those merged into Apex Exterior Services, one company covering the whole property year-round. Junk removal grew out of that: customers kept asking whether the crew clearing the yard could also take the basement, the shed and the deck that came down with it. Enough of them asked that it became its own side of the business.
That history is the reason this reads the way it does. We learned the work by doing the work, so when we quote a job we are quoting something we are about to carry ourselves. The price we give you in the driveway is the price on the invoice — which sounds like a low bar until you have had a hauler double it halfway through a basement.
Meet the owners
Chris Geremia & Kenny Benson
Apex was founded by Chris Geremia and Kenny Benson, who started the business together in high school in 2022 and still run it hands-on. Both of them learned every service by doing it, which is why the person who quotes your job is usually the person who loads it.
Chris studied at Rutgers University and Kenny is at The College of New Jersey, and both stayed on the trucks and on the phones the whole way through. When you call, you are talking to an owner, not a dispatcher reading from a script.
The crew is fully insured, and we can send a certificate of insurance before we arrive — property managers and building superintendents ask for it, and it should be on file before anyone sets foot on site.
Our commitment
What you can expect
We are licensed to do this properly. New Jersey requires an A901 solid waste transporter license to haul junk, and ours is NJDEP #0042968. It is worth checking that whoever you hire has one — plenty of cheaper outfits do not, and the liability for where your waste ends up does not disappear just because someone else drove it away.
We quote on site and for free. You get one number for the whole job before anything moves, and it does not change unless you add to the pile.
You do not lift anything. Nothing needs to be dragged to the curb first — that is the entire point of hiring us.
We sort the load rather than driving straight to the dump. Usable goods go to donation, metal and electronics go to recyclers, and only what is genuinely finished gets disposed of.
We sweep up. The space is left broom-clean, which takes us ten extra minutes and is the thing people remember.
Licensed hauler
NJDEP #0042968
New Jersey requires an A901 solid waste transporter license to haul junk away. Ask any hauler you are considering for theirs — plenty of cheaper outfits do not hold one, and the liability for where your waste ends up follows the property, not the truck.
2. One number, agreed first
One price for the whole load, including the labor and the disposal fees. Nothing gets lifted until you have said yes to it.
3. We load, and we sweep
You do not touch anything. The space gets swept before we leave, and the load gets sorted for donation and recycling at our end.
Sorted, not just dumped
If you need a donation receipt for tax purposes, ask before we load and we will get one back to you.
Where it goes
Not everything you are done with is finished
A truck that drives straight to the transfer station every time is the easy way to run this business. We sort the load instead, because most of what comes out of a garage still works.
Furniture in good condition, working appliances, tools, bikes and unopened household goods get set aside on the truck and routed to donation rather than dumped. Metal goes to a scrap recycler. Electronics go to an e-waste handler who is licensed to take them.
What is left — the genuinely broken, the soaked, the moldy — goes to the transfer station, because that is where it belongs. We are not going to claim a diversion rate we cannot show you.
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Donated
Usable furniture, appliances, tools and household goods go to local donation partners.
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Recycled
Metal, appliances and electronics go to scrap and e-waste recyclers, not landfill.
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Disposed properly
What is genuinely finished goes to a licensed transfer station, with the fees paid.
Let us take a look
Free estimate anywhere in Central New Jersey — and an honest answer if we are not the right people for it.