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Yard Waste & Green Waste Removal in Los Angeles

Branches, brush, palm fronds, soil and green waste hauled to a composting facility — including brush clearance for fire season.

The Junkiez provides same-day yard waste & green waste removal in Los Angeles. Branches, brush, palm fronds, soil and green waste hauled to a composting facility — including brush clearance for fire season.

Green waste piles up faster than the green bin can take it, particularly after a windstorm or a serious garden overhaul. Palm fronds alone defeat most residential bins. We take it all to a composting or organics facility rather than a landfill, which is both better and, under California’s organics diversion law, increasingly what is required.

Yard Waste in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is not one hauling market, it is about forty of them. A job in Highland Park means a 1910s Craftsman with a detached garage down a shared driveway; the same job in Koreatown means a fourth-floor unit in a 1960s courtyard building with one small elevator and permit parking on every side. We have crews who know the difference before they arrive, which is mostly what determines whether a pickup takes forty minutes or three hours.

The City of Los Angeles offers residents free bulky-item collection through LA Sanitation — genuinely worth using if your timeline is flexible, and we will tell you so. What it does not solve is a same-week move-out, an item that has to come down from a third floor, or anything the city classifies as excluded. Our loads go to certified transfer and materials recovery facilities, and for construction debris we deliver to the certified processors the city requires for permit sign-off.

What we take

  • Tree branches, limbs and trunk sections
  • Palm fronds and yucca
  • Brush, ivy and overgrowth clearance
  • Grass clippings, leaves and garden waste
  • Soil, sod, sand and gravel
  • Old fencing, trellises and planters
  • Dead plants, stumps and root balls
  • Pool and patio debris

Brush clearance for fire season

If you are in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone — much of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Verdugos, the foothill communities and large parts of San Diego County — LAFD and CAL FIRE brush clearance inspections require defensible space cleared to a specified distance, and non-compliance means the city clears it and bills you at a rate well above ours. Inspection notices typically go out in late spring. If you have one, send it over; it states exactly what has to go.

Getting a price in Los Angeles

We quote free on site, before anything is loaded, and the number does not change afterwards. Our rates are the same everywhere we work — there is no Los Angeles surcharge, and stairs, long carries and disassembly are all included.

We cover all of Los Angeles, including Downtown, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Highland Park and Koreatown.

Same-day service Booked before early afternoon, gone today
12ft & 14ft trucks 20-40% more capacity than the franchises
Licensed & insured COI available on request
Donation first Reusable goods go to charity, with receipts

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Same-day mattress and box spring pickup, taken to a California-certified recycler rather than a landfill.

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Appliance Removal

Refrigerators, washers, dryers, stoves and water heaters removed and routed to certified appliance recyclers.

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Electronics & E-Waste Recycling

TVs, monitors, computers and e-waste collected and taken to a California-approved recycler, with data-bearing drives handled securely.

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Garage Cleanout

Full garage clear-outs — we sort, carry and haul everything, and you get the floor back the same day.

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Estate Cleanout

Complete, discreet estate and probate clear-outs handled at your pace, with donation receipts for the estate.

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Construction Debris Removal

Drywall, lumber, tile, concrete and remodel debris hauled off, with the recycling documentation your permit may require.

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Office Cleanout & Decommissioning

After-hours office clear-outs and decommissioning, with secure document handling and certificates of data destruction.

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Donation Pickup

We collect usable furniture and goods, deliver them to a local charity and send you the itemised donation receipt.

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General Junk Removal

Point at anything that is not hazardous and we will load it, carry it and haul it away the same day.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you take palm fronds?

Yes. They defeat most residential green bins, which is why we get asked constantly.

Can you do fire-season brush clearance?

Yes. Send us your LAFD or CAL FIRE inspection notice and we will clear to the specified distance.

Do you take dirt and concrete?

Yes, quoted by weight rather than volume since dense material fills a truck by mass long before it fills it by space.

Is green waste composted?

Yes — it goes to a composting or organics facility as a separate load, per California SB 1383.

What customers say

My mother had let things get out of hand and I was dreading the whole process. They came in an unmarked truck, never made a single comment, and asked before removing anything that was not obviously rubbish. Took four days and they never once rushed her.

Verified customer Los Angeles

I called about one old fridge and they told me my utility would collect it free and pay me for it. They talked themselves out of a job. When I needed a full garage cleared two months later I did not call anyone else.

Anh L. Irvine

Six-person spa behind a narrow side gate. Two other companies looked at it and passed. These guys drained it, cut it into sections and had the patio swept by 4pm. The price they quoted on arrival was the price I paid.

Greg T. Huntington Beach

Need it gone in Los Angeles?

Free on-site quote, same-day slots, and no charge for stairs or long carries.