Garages, workshops, sheds and Rancho outbuildings cleared in Burbank. Sorted on site, with the chemical fraction routed where it actually has to go.
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Burbank's curbside bulky list bans paint, auto parts, hazardous waste and construction material, and the city's Recycle Center no longer takes motor oil. That shelf routes instead to the county's Randall Street S.A.F.E. center in Sun Valley, weekends only, capped at 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit. Sorting happens at your address, quoted free.
A Burbank garage cleanout is decided by the shelves rather than the floor. Burbank runs its own systems: bulky items are collected at the curb on your regular trash day, booked through the Our Burbank 311 portal at least two business days ahead with a photograph or on (818) 238-3800 at least one business day ahead, and the Burbank Recycle Center Drop Zone at 500 South Flower Street takes electronic waste from residents Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. But neither route takes the material a garage is actually full of. Burbank's bulky list prohibits construction materials, auto parts, paint, hazardous waste, yard waste, cardboard and extra bags of trash, and the Drop Zone explicitly does not accept paint, chemicals or medical waste, while the city's motor oil and oil filter collection has concluded and the Recycle Center no longer takes either. For those fractions Burbank residents use the county route, the Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center at 11025 Randall Street in Sun Valley, open Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., within California's limit of 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit. Los Angeles Junk Removal & Hauling separates every fraction at your address and tells you where each part is going. The quote is free upfront.
Ask a Burbank homeowner what is in the garage and you will get furniture, boxes and a bike. Open it and the wall tells a different story: eleven part-used paint tins, a shelf of automotive fluid, a bag of fluorescent tubes from a kitchen refit, two car batteries, a dead strimmer with fuel still in it and a stack of ceramic tile from a bathroom job in 2014.
None of that is heavy. All of it is routed, and in Burbank the routing is unusually specific because the city's own facility has a short accepted list. What we clear across the city is on junk removal in Burbank, and the county-wide service is on garage cleanouts.
Route one is the curb. Burbank's bulky item collection will take the furniture end of a garage free: bed frames, chairs, couches, cribs, dressers, tables, metal furniture, rugs, large plastic toys, emptied propane and oxygen tanks with the valve removed, and up to two pallets in good condition per pickup. A second list carries a $12.14 special handling fee per item since July 1, 2025, covering air compressors, gas chainsaws, lawnmowers, gas leaf blowers, tires up to four, water heaters and the major appliances. Book through the Our Burbank 311 portal at least two business days ahead with a photograph, or on (818) 238-3800 at least one business day ahead.
Now read the prohibited list against a real garage. Burbank will not collect auto parts, naming car seats, batteries, doors, fenders, gas tanks and motors. It will not collect construction materials, naming bricks and cinder blocks, concrete, ceramic tile, sand, dirt and rocks, fencing, pallets, roofing materials, railroad ties, duct and sheet metal, plaster, sheetrock, damaged or disassembled pallets, floor coverings, carpet, marble and countertops. It will not collect ammunition, bio-infectious material, cardboard, dead animals, extra bags or boxes of trash, fire-damaged items, gun powder or explosives, hazardous waste, metal grocery carts, paint, radioactive material, smoke detectors or yard waste. That is a very large fraction of an average garage.
Route two is the Burbank Recycle Center Drop Zone at 500 South Flower Street, open to residents and small businesses Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on (818) 238-3900, with proof of Burbank residency sometimes requested. It accepts antifreeze at two gallons maximum, unmixed, and not between noon and 1 p.m.; batteries, with the caveat that loose e-bike batteries are refused and must be installed on the bike; computers and laptops; televisions and monitors; e-bikes and hoverboards; wires and power strips; lightbulbs and tubes at ten tubes per resident per year; and toner and inkjet cartridges, with aftermarket or generic cartridges refused. What it does not accept is motor oil and filters, paint, chemicals, medical waste and other unspecified household hazardous waste. The city's motor oil and used oil filter collection has concluded.
Route three is therefore a trip out of the city. Burbank residents are Los Angeles County residents, so they can use the S.A.F.E. centers, and the city names the East Valley Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center at 11025 Randall Street, Sun Valley 91352 on (800) 773-2489, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The state limit of 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit applies, which is why a well-stocked garage is several weekend trips. Paint specifically also has PaintCare, a free statewide take-back funded by a recovery fee already paid at purchase.
Source: City of Burbank Public Works, Household Hazardous Waste Collection. Cited in full below.
| Curbside takes | furniture, metal furniture, rugs, large plastic toys, emptied propane and oxygen tanks with valve removed, up to two good pallets |
|---|---|
| Curbside fee items | $12.14 each since July 1, 2025: air compressors, chainsaws, lawnmowers, gas leaf blowers, tires up to four, water heaters, major appliances |
| Curbside prohibits | auto parts, construction materials, paint, hazardous waste, yard waste, cardboard, fire-damaged items, smoke detectors, ammunition, explosives |
| Construction list in full | bricks and cinder blocks, concrete, ceramic tile, sand, dirt and rocks, fencing, pallets, roofing materials, railroad ties, duct and sheet metal, plaster, sheetrock, floor coverings, carpet, marble, countertops |
| Drop Zone location | Burbank Recycle Center, 500 South Flower Street, Burbank 91502, (818) 238-3900 |
| Drop Zone hours | Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on City of Burbank holidays |
| Drop Zone takes | antifreeze (2 gallons, unmixed, not noon to 1 p.m.), batteries, computers and laptops, televisions and monitors, e-bikes and hoverboards, wires and power strips, lightbulbs and tubes, toner and inkjet cartridges |
| Tube limit | ten fluorescent tubes per resident per year |
| Drop Zone refuses | motor oil and filters, paint, chemicals, medical waste and other unspecified household hazardous waste |
| Oil collection | the city's motor oil and used oil filter collection has concluded |
| County route | East Valley Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center, 11025 Randall Street, Sun Valley 91352, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| State transport limit | 125 pounds or 15 gallons of household hazardous waste per visit |
Sources: City of Burbank Public Works, Household Hazardous Waste Collection · City of Burbank Public Works, Bulky Item Pick-Up · LA Sanitation, S.A.F.E. Collection Centers and Household Hazardous Waste · PaintCare, California program and recovery fees
Burbank garages come in three distinct shapes and each changes the job. The common single-family pattern is a detached garage at the rear of the lot reached from a driveway down the side of the house, or from an alley on the blocks that have one. That is the best case: hard standing, a short carry, room to sort, and a truck that can stand legally on a driveway rather than a street.
The second pattern is the tuck-under or attached garage in the denser Media District and the small apartment stock around it, where the garage is shared, gated, and frequently the only vehicle access for several units. Clearing one of those is a timing problem more than a lifting problem: block it and you have blocked somebody's only way out. We work in stages and keep the drive passable rather than treating it as a yard.
The third is the Rancho equestrian district north of the freeway, and it is genuinely different from anywhere else in the region. Lots are deep, with stables, tack rooms, feed storage and outbuildings at the back, and several streets carry designated horse trails running alongside the roadway. A garage cleanout there is usually an outbuilding cleanout, the carry distance is long, and where horses are present a vehicle parked on a trail or an engine left running is a real problem rather than a discourtesy. Smaller vehicle, more trips, parked where we are asked to park.
The hillside blocks above Glenoaks add a fourth variation: steep driveways that a loaded truck should not reverse down, and garages entered from a level below the house. We size the vehicle to the driveway rather than finding out the hard way.
Condition is the last factor. Burbank summers are hot and garages are unventilated, which does specific things to stored material: paint tins swell and seals fail, aerosols become unpredictable, adhesives and solvents separate, and cardboard boxes lose structure so they cannot be lifted as boxes. Corroded or leaking containers get contained and carried separately rather than tipped into a load, because one split can of solvent turns a recyclable load into a hazardous one. If the garage cleanout is really a demolition, see construction debris removal in Burbank.
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Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. The garage cleanouts we run in Burbank looks like this too: side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where the work actually is.
A garage load separates into five streams at your property, because once a load is mixed it cannot be economically unmixed. Stream one is donation: tools, bicycles, camping and sports equipment, ladders, working power tools and sound furniture. Burbank's own bulky page makes the same argument in its own words, asking residents to donate or sell rather than use the curbside collection, because bulky items are landfilled and not recycled.
Stream two is metal and materials recovery: shelving, a dead lawnmower with the fuel removed, copper offcuts, aluminum screens, the steel of a water heater. Metal appliances are one of the four categories Burbank names as exceptions to its landfill statement, which is exactly why they are worth separating.
Stream three is electronics and universal waste. California ended the household exemption on February 9, 2006, which banned household batteries, cell phones, computers, fluorescent lamps, mercury switches and thermostats, printers, microwaves, televisions and monitors from the trash, with the cathode ray tubes in old monitors and televisions named specifically. Burbank's Drop Zone on South Flower Street takes most of that stream free, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., subject to the ten-tube annual limit and the rule that loose e-bike batteries are refused.
Stream four is the hazardous fraction the Drop Zone will not take: paint, thinner, solvent, adhesive, motor oil and filters, pesticide, pool chemical and unspecified chemicals. Those go to the Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center in Sun Valley, weekends only, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., within 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit. Paint has a second free route through PaintCare, funded by a recovery fee already paid when it was bought, on a published schedule from nothing for a half pint or less up to $1.60 on containers over one gallon to five gallons.
Stream five is the construction material Burbank's bulky list prohibits outright — tile, plaster, sheetrock, carpet, countertop, concrete, roofing, duct and sheet metal. That travels as its own load. And tires are their own trap: Burbank caps them at four per pickup with the special handling fee, California charges a $1.75 tire fee on each new tire, and anyone transporting ten or more waste tires must be a CalRecycle-registered hauler with a trip log.
Sources: City of Burbank Public Works, Household Hazardous Waste Collection · Californians Against Waste, background on universal waste and DTSC regulations · PaintCare, California program and recovery fees · California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, California Tire Fee Law Guide
Same rule in Burbank as anywhere else in Los Angeles County. The local part is the program above, not the disposal law. Full detail on garage cleanouts.
This page is garage cleanouts in Burbank specifically. The wider service is on garage cleanouts across Los Angeles, and everything we haul in this city is on junk removal in Burbank. Same crew, different job: Furniture removal in Burbank, Appliance removal in Burbank, Construction debris removal in Burbank. Pricing works the same way everywhere: how our pricing works, and the full map is on areas we serve.
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Couches, sectionals, mattresses in the same trip, beds, desks and wardrobes carried down rather than dragged.
Fridges, washers and AC units. Refrigerant units are handled as universal waste.
TVs, CRT monitors and computers. Banned from the trash in California.
Drywall, lumber, tile and concrete, hauled to a certified C&D processor.
Sheds, playhouses and patio covers dismantled in sequence, slab optional.
A full property cleared with care, on probate or move-out timelines.
What the Drop Zone takes, what it refuses, and where the rest has to go.
No. The Drop Zone at 500 South Flower Street explicitly does not accept paint, chemicals or medical waste. It takes antifreeze in limited quantity, batteries, computers and laptops, televisions and monitors, e-bikes and hoverboards, wires and power strips, lightbulbs and tubes, and toner cartridges. For paint your free options are PaintCare, which is funded by the recovery fee you already paid at purchase, or the Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center in Sun Valley at the weekend.
Burbank's oil collection has ended. The city has announced that the Burbank Recycle Center no longer accepts motor oil or used motor oil filters, and separately that antifreeze, oil and oil filters are not accepted between noon and 1 p.m. So oil and filters now go to the county route: the East Valley Randall Street S.A.F.E. Center at 11025 Randall Street, Sun Valley, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., within the state limit of 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit.
No. Burbank's bulky prohibited list names construction materials specifically, including bricks and cinder blocks, concrete, ceramic tile, sand, dirt and rocks, fencing, pallets, roofing materials, railroad ties, duct and sheet metal, plaster, sheetrock, floor coverings, carpet, marble and countertops. That fraction has to travel as its own load. The city suggests renting a temporary dumpster for it, which is one option; taking it away in one visit is the other.
More than one, almost always. California limits household hazardous waste transport to 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit, and that is a state rule that applies to you, to us and to everybody. Twenty part-used paint tins, a case of aerosols, a drum of pool chemical and a few car batteries exceed it comfortably. Since the center is open Saturday and Sunday only, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., that is two or three weekends of round trips to Sun Valley. That is the part we take off your hands.
Yes, within a limit. The Drop Zone takes lightbulbs and tubes, but Burbank caps it at ten tubes per resident per year. A kitchen or garage refit often produces more than ten, and the surplus goes to the S.A.F.E. center route instead. Tubes are universal waste under California law and must never go in the trash or be broken, which is worth stating plainly because breaking them is the most common way people get this wrong.
It changes the vehicle and the pace rather than the price basis. Rancho lots are deep, the outbuildings are at the back, and several streets have designated horse trails running alongside the roadway, so we bring a smaller vehicle, make more trips and park where we are asked to park. Tell us if horses are on the property and at what times, and we will work around them. It is a courtesy that costs us nothing and matters a great deal to the neighbors.
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Collection rules, transfer stations and permit counters change at the city line, so each of these is written for that city rather than for Burbank. A job that straddles two of them is still one visit and one number.
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