Same-day hauling across Burbank, from the Rancho horse-keeping streets and the Magnolia Park bungalows to the Media District and the hills above the Verdugos, quoted flat before we start.
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Burbank is not part of the City of Los Angeles, so none of the LA Sanitation rules apply here. Burbank Public Works runs its own curbside bulky item collection, booked on the Our Burbank 311 portal with a photo and two business days' notice, or on (818) 238-3800 with one business day. Some items are collected with no handling charge; a second list carries a special handling fee of $12.14 per item billed to your Burbank Water and Power account; and a long third list is refused outright, including construction debris, carpet, paint, hazardous waste, cardboard and yard waste. Los Angeles Junk Removal & Hauling covers that third list, at one flat volume-based price.
The single most useful thing to know in Burbank is that the city is its own waste authority. Guides written for Los Angeles are wrong here: there is no MyLA311 request, no unlimited free allowance, and no LASAN truck. The number is (818) 238-3800 and the rules are Burbank's.
The second thing is that Burbank's program is explicitly residential. The City's own guidance to businesses with bulky items is to donate them, rent a temporary bin, or call a junk removal service. In a city with an adopted Media District Specific Plan and the production, post and office tenancies that come with it, that is a lot of clear-outs the city will not touch. See commercial junk removal and how our pricing works.
Requests go to Public Works Street and Sanitation. The Our Burbank 311 portal and app want at least two business days before your normal trash day and a photograph of the item; the phone line on (818) 238-3800 wants at least one business day; email needs your name, address, the items, where they will be placed and your collection day. Do not put anything out earlier than the night before, keep it at least five feet clear of fixed objects, and take the doors off a fridge. If a crew cannot lift something on the day it gets tagged and picked up the Friday after.
Then the two tiers. Collected with no handling charge: couches, chairs, tables, dressers, bed frames, cribs, metal furniture, furnaces, rugs, large plastic toys, emptied propane and oxygen cylinders with the valve removed, televisions, and up to two pallets if they are intact. Charged a special handling fee of $12.14 per item, effective 1 July 2025: refrigerators, freezers, washers and dryers, dishwashers, stoves, water heaters and softeners, air conditioners, air compressors, gas lawn mowers, chainsaws and leaf blowers, mattresses and box springs, and up to four tires. Those fees go on the Burbank Water and Power account, which means the account holder has to be the one booking.
The refusal list is long and specific, and it is where most of our Burbank calls start. No auto parts of any kind. No construction materials: concrete, brick, cinder block, ceramic tile, sand, dirt, rock, roofing, plaster, sheetrock, railroad ties, ducting and sheet metal, marble, countertops, fencing, or damaged pallets. No carpet or floor coverings. No cardboard, no paint, no hazardous waste, no yard waste, no fire-damaged items, no extra bags of household trash. And nothing generated by a business.
| Who runs it | City of Burbank Public Works, Street and Sanitation |
|---|---|
| How to book | Our Burbank 311 with a photo, 2 business days ahead, or (818) 238-3800, 1 business day ahead |
| No handling fee | Couches, chairs, tables, dressers, bed frames, cribs, rugs, TVs, metal furniture, up to 2 intact pallets |
| Special handling fee | $12.14 per item on fridges, freezers, washers, dryers, water heaters, stoves, AC units, mattresses, box springs and up to 4 tires |
| Curb rules | Out no earlier than the night before, 5 feet clear of fixed objects, fridge doors removed |
| Refused | Auto parts, concrete, tile, sheetrock, roofing, carpet, marble, countertops, paint, hazardous waste, cardboard, yard waste |
| Businesses | Excluded; the City's own advice is to donate, rent a bin, or call a junk removal service |
The Media District has its own adopted specific plan and its own rhythm of work. Production offices, post and edit suites, stages and the businesses that feed them turn over between projects rather than on a calendar, which means a clear-out is usually a deadline rather than an errand. Those buildings want a certificate of insurance before a crew comes through the gate, a booked dock or elevator window, and often an after-hours slot. None of it can go through the city program, because business-generated waste is excluded from it outright.
Residential Burbank changes character every few blocks. Magnolia Park is 1920s to 1940s bungalows on compact lots with a detached garage at the end of a long, narrow driveway, which is where three generations of storage ends up. The Rancho is different again: Burbank zones part of it R-1-H, Single Family Residential Horsekeeping, and the City has been preparing a Rancho Neighborhood Specific Plan since Council directed it in March 2023 to protect the equestrian character. Horse property generates tack, feed sacks, arena fencing, lumber and stable clear-outs that no curbside truck is going to take.
Above all that are the hillside streets in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. Burbank Fire runs its Fire Hazard Reduction Program on a fixed calendar: letters go out to affected properties in May, all clearance has to be finished by the end of June, and inspections start in July. Within 100 feet of the structure that means dead trees out, weeds and vegetation under three inches, dead palm fronds down, roofs cleared of leaves and needles, and five feet of vertical space between the roof and any overhanging tree. From 100 to 200 feet it becomes a fuel modification zone with native brush cut back by half, and the department states plainly that a total of 200 feet of clearance is required. The line that matters to us is the last one: all cut vegetation has to be removed and safely disposed of. It cannot stay on the slope, and Burbank will not take it as a bulky item.
Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. The junk removal we run in Burbank looks like this too: side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where the work actually is.
Burbank has good local infrastructure and some sharp edges. The Burbank Recycle Center at 500 S Flower St, on (818) 238-3900, is open Monday to Friday 8 to 5 and Saturday 8 to 4 for drop-off recycling, oversized cardboard, scrap metal and mattresses, and it runs a residents-only Drop Zone on weekdays for computers, laptops, televisions and monitors, batteries, wires and power strips, toner cartridges and lightbulbs, with tubes capped at ten per resident per year. What it will not take is household hazardous waste. No paint, no chemicals, and the City has posted that it no longer accepts motor oil or used oil filters at all. For those, Burbank residents are directed to the LA S.A.F.E. network, and the nearest is the Randall Street center at 11025 Randall St in Sun Valley, open Saturdays and Sundays 9 to 3, free, within the state's 125-pound or 15-gallon per-visit limit.
Mattresses go into California's state-funded recycling program rather than a landfill, and a Burbank retailer delivering a new mattress is required to take the old one away. Electronics are universal waste in California and cannot go in a bin. Construction debris follows Burbank's own rules, not LA City's: the Citywide C&D ordinance and its per-load penalty stop at the Burbank line. Instead Burbank has had its own Construction and Demolition Debris Diversion Ordinance, Ordinance No. 3652, since 2004 and mandatory since 1 July 2007, administered by the Community Development Building Division at 150 N Third St on (818) 238-5220. It works as a waste management plan filed with the permit application plus a refundable deposit taken at permit issuance, released only when you file a recycling summary report with weight receipts within 90 days of final inspection. State code sets the diversion target at 65 per cent. One more thing worth knowing: Burbank Landfill Site No. 3 is operated by the City's own Public Works department and is open only to it, so no private hauler tips there. Burbank debris leaves the city to be processed.
Source: City of Burbank, Recycle Center and Burbank Fire Department, Fire Hazard Reduction Program
We are on these streets constantly because we are already next door: Glendale, North Hollywood, Studio City, Valley Village, Pasadena. If your job straddles two of them it is still one visit and one number. The full list is on areas we serve.
We are a service-area business with no yard or storefront, so there is nothing to drive to — the truck comes to you. The whole list is on areas we serve.
Production and office clear-outs, refused debris, stable yards and hillside brush.
COIs, after-hours dock slots and property-manager invoicing.
Drywall, lumber, tile and concrete, hauled to a certified C&D processor.
Brush, palm fronds, sod, soil and storm debris, priced by weight.
The whole garage in one visit. We sort, donate what is usable and sweep the slab.
Fridges, washers and AC units. Refrigerant units are handled as universal waste.
TVs, CRT monitors and computers. Banned from the trash in California.
Burbank's rules, not the city of LA's.
Partly. Furniture-type items such as couches, chairs, tables, dressers, bed frames and televisions carry no handling charge. A second list, including fridges, freezers, washers, dryers, water heaters, stoves, air conditioners, mattresses, box springs and up to four tires, carries a special handling fee of $12.14 per item billed to your Burbank Water and Power account, so the account holder has to make the booking.
No. Both are on the refusal list, along with concrete, tile, sheetrock, roofing, marble, countertops and damaged pallets. Burbank runs its own C&D Debris Diversion Ordinance through the Building Division, with a waste management plan filed at permit stage and a refundable deposit released against weight receipts. See construction debris removal.
No. Business-generated items are excluded from the program entirely, and the City tells businesses to donate, rent a temporary bin, or call a junk removal service. We carry insurance, send a certificate of insurance ahead, and work dock and after-hours windows. See commercial junk removal.
Not the Burbank Recycle Center. It does not accept paint, chemicals or household hazardous waste, and the City has posted that it no longer takes motor oil or used oil filters. The nearest S.A.F.E. Collection Center is Randall Street, 11025 Randall St, Sun Valley, open Saturdays and Sundays 9 to 3, free, capped at 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit.
Yes, and the calendar matters. Burbank Fire writes to Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone properties in May, wants clearance finished by the end of June and starts inspecting in July, with 200 feet of total clearance required and all cut vegetation removed from the property. Burbank will not take yard waste as a bulky item, so it has to be hauled. See yard waste removal.
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Fridges, washers, dryers and AC units, de-gassed and scrapped legally.
Drywall, lumber, tile and concrete, hauled to a certified C&D processor.
Couches, sectionals, bed frames and wardrobes carried out and routed for donation or recycling.
The whole garage in one visit. We sort, donate what is usable and sweep the slab.
Mattresses and box springs taken to a recycler rather than a landfill.
Every Los Angeles County city runs its own program. These guides say which one applies to your address, and what it costs to get it wrong.
Thirteen Los Angeles-area programs in one table: how many free pickups a year, how many items, who to call and what each one refuses.
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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