Yard Waste & Green Waste Removal in San Diego
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 San Diego. 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 San Diego
San Diego’s older neighbourhoods — North Park, Normal Heights, Golden Hill, Mission Hills — are full of 1910s to 1940s Craftsman and Spanish bungalows with detached garages down long shared driveways and, unusually for Southern California, basements. Those produce genuinely deep estate clear-outs. The beach communities are a different market entirely, dominated by rental turnover and garages full of surf and dive gear.
Canyon-adjacent properties across the city — and San Diego has a lot of them — often mean a long carry from house to street. Beach neighbourhood parking in Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach is difficult in summer, so weekday mornings are much faster. Miramar Landfill and the city’s greenery and recycling centre serve most of the city, with green waste kept as a separate composting load.
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 San Diego
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 San Diego surcharge, and stairs, long carries and disassembly are all included.
We cover all of San Diego, including North Park, Hillcrest, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, Point Loma and Normal Heights.