Demolition and renovation debris hauled anywhere in greater Los Angeles. Mixed C&D goes to a City-certified processing facility, because in this city that is the law and not a preference.
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The rules are stricter than people expect. This page covers where your debris is allowed to go, and why that answer ends up on your building permit.
That last line is what catches people. The permit desk asks who is taking your debris before you have thought about it, and the answer attaches to your project rather than to the truck. The 65 percent diversion figure on your waste management plan comes from elsewhere again: CALGreen 4.408 and 5.408, adopted into the LA Green Building Code. In unincorporated LA County the mixed C&D requirement rose from 50 to 70 percent on August 19, 2024.
Sources: LASAN C&D Recycling Program, LASAN hauler compliance, CalRecycle, LA County.
LASAN publishes the 2026 audited mixed-C&D recycling rate for every certified facility in the city.
| Express Disposal | East Washington Boulevard | 89.96% |
|---|---|---|
| America's Recycling Company 3 | Sun Valley | 83.98% |
| Construction & Demolition Recycling | South Gate | 82.80% |
| California Waste Services | Gardena | 82.13% |
| Crown Recycling | Sun Valley | 81.28% |
| American Reclamation | Los Angeles | 80.75% |
| CWS-DTLA | Downtown Los Angeles | 78.81% |
| East Valley Diversion | San Fernando Valley | 78.20% |
| Cordova | Pacoima | 76.20% |
| City Terrace Recycling | City Terrace | 72.75% |
| American Industrial Services | Long Beach, provisional | 70.00% |
Source: LASAN certified facility list and audited recycling rates, 2026.
Nearly twenty points separate the top of that list from the bottom. Against a 65 percent target, a load audited at 89.96 percent clears comfortably; one at 70.00 percent clears by five. So ask whoever hauls your debris which certified facility it goes to, and ask before it is loaded.
Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. Side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where most of the work actually happens.
In person or from photos. Material matters more than the height of the heap. Flat number before anything moves.
Clean inert material separated from mixed debris, metal pulled for scrap. A load with soil through it stops being recoverable.
Every load leaves covered, because untarped loads are penalised at the scale. Heavy material is billed off a real scale ticket.
Mixed C&D to a City-certified processor. If your permit file needs to show where it went, ask and we will name it.
Sunshine Canyon in Sylmar runs a one-ton minimum and shuts its scales at 5pm on weekdays and 11am on Saturday, so a late Saturday call about a demo pile is usually a Monday job.
Source: Sunshine Canyon Landfill.
Most housing here went up between the 1920s and the 1970s, from bungalows around Echo Park and Silver Lake to post-war tract houses across the Valley. Asbestos was routine in ceiling texture, nine-inch floor tile and roofing, and lead paint was standard until 1978.
A hauler who shovels a scraped popcorn ceiling into an open truck exposes their crew and your household, and the liability lands on the owner.
For furniture and mattresses a free city program usually exists. Not here. LASAN's free, unlimited bulky pickup names construction materials on its prohibited list, concrete, bricks and dirt included, and Pasadena and West Hollywood exclude C&D outright. That leaves a permitted hauler, a roll-off box or a self-haul permit.
Sources: LASAN bulky-item pickup, Pasadena, West Hollywood.
Drywall and plaster. Lumber, plywood and pallets. Tile with the thinset and backer board under it. Hardwood, laminate, vinyl plank and carpet. Cabinetry, countertops, vanities, tubs and sinks. Doors, windows and trim. Roofing tear-off, stucco, concrete and brick.
Remodels rarely produce only debris. The old range and water heater go out as appliance removal, sofas and beds as furniture removal and mattress removal, the tube TV in the back bedroom as e-waste. A gutted garage is a garage cleanout, an inherited property an estate cleanout, the spa that blocks the new patio hot tub removal.
Unit turnovers in Downtown Los Angeles, remodels across Pasadena and Glendale, ADU builds in Burbank, tear-offs in Long Beach. Full list on the areas we serve page.
Call or text (323) 230-0777, or send photos to team@lajunkhauling.com. One flat number before we start, no obligation.
Ask any hauler which certified facility they use before they load. If they cannot name one, the penalty lands on the job, not on them. Full processor list and audited rates below.
What contractors and homeowners ask before a demo pile leaves the property.
It has to end at a City-certified processing facility. An owner can apply to LASAN to self-haul their own debris. Anyone hauling C&D for someone else needs a Private Waste Hauler Permit and an AB 939 Compliance Permit. Loads that miss a certified processor carry a penalty of up to five thousand dollars.
From CALGreen 4.408 and 5.408, adopted into the LA Green Building Code: at least 65 percent of a covered project's C&D waste diverted from landfill. LASAN publishes every certified processor's audited rate, so the facility your hauler picks decides whether the paperwork holds.
Yes, as a separate clean load wherever we can. Kept unmixed, inert material is genuinely recyclable and goes to different facilities from mixed debris. Half a yard of soil stirred into drywall turns a recoverable load into a landfill load.
No. LASAN's bulky-item pickup is free and unlimited, but its prohibited list names construction materials outright: concrete, bricks and dirt. Pasadena and West Hollywood exclude C&D too. There is no free curbside route for renovation debris here.
Yes, and we would rather say so than load it. Pre-1980 popcorn ceilings, floor tile and mastic, pipe lagging and roofing felt are common asbestos-containing materials, and paint before 1978 may be lead based. Test before it is disturbed. Abatement is a licensed trade; we take the clean debris.
Yes. Most renovation work is repeat trips rather than one haul: a load after demo, a load after framing, a load at the end. We run Monday to Saturday around the clock, so a truck can come before the trades arrive.
Heavy material sells by the ton, so it is quoted by weight; lighter mixed debris is quoted by truck volume. Either way the flat number is confirmed before anything is loaded. What moves it is the material, the carry, and whether the load stays clean. See how our pricing works or how junk removal is priced in LA.
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Local rules, access and drop-off points differ street by street. These pages cover what changes.
Sourced guides to what Los Angeles will take for nothing, who to call and what the rules actually say.
A dumpster on an LA street needs a permit and a hauler permit behind it. Which one is right depends on four things, not on price alone.
The state and city penalties, why liability follows the waste back to whoever produced it, and how to get a pile cleared off your street.
Seven checks that take ten minutes, and why the fine for illegally dumped junk follows the property it came from.
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