Same-day hauling across Long Beach, from the alley garages of Rose Park to the Ocean Boulevard towers and the Naples canals, quoted flat before we load anything.
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Long Beach runs its own refuse service through the city's Environmental Services Bureau and is not covered by LA Sanitation, and its bulky program is the most generous in the region: 12 free Special Collections per calendar year for every City-serviced account, up to 8 large items or 25 bags and bundles per pickup, and two of those pickups can be used on the same day. Book on (562) 570-2876. It stops hard at four things. No debris from construction, remodeling or demolition. No rocks, concrete or dirt. No household hazardous waste. Nothing generated by a business. Los Angeles Junk Removal & Hauling takes all four, at one flat volume-based price agreed before we start.
Long Beach is old housing stock wrapped around a working port, and the two ends of it produce completely different loads. Rose Park, Bluff Heights and Belmont Heights are block after block of 1910s and 1920s Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Colonial Revival duplexes, most of them served from a rear alley rather than the street. Bluff Park sits on the bluff itself between Ocean Boulevard and Broadway. Downtown and the Ocean Boulevard corridor are high-rises with loading docks, freight elevators and building rules. Naples is three islands in Alamitos Bay ringed by the Rivo Alto Canal, where the water side of the house has a footbridge and the street side often has no driveway at all.
Then the industrial belt behind the port along Anaheim Street, and a student population at Cal State Long Beach and Long Beach City College that empties into the surrounding blocks every summer. That is five separate hauling problems inside one city boundary. See construction debris removal, commercial junk removal and how our pricing works.
Use the city program first, because in Long Beach it is genuinely good. The City provides each City-serviced account 12 Special Collections per calendar year at no additional cost. Each pickup takes up to 8 large items or 25 bags, bundles and boxes. A large item may not exceed 72 by 48 inches, a bundle may not exceed 48 inches in any direction or 40 pounds, and a bag may not exceed 25 pounds. Two of the free pickups can be used on the same day, which in practice turns one visit into 16 large items. Book on (562) 570-2876 or through the city's online Special Collection request, then set everything out at your regular collection point by 6am on the confirmed day and not before it. For most of the older grid, that collection point is the alley behind the house, not the curb in front of it.
Long Beach also does something LA City does not: tied bundles of tree branches and yard trimmings up to four feet and 40 pounds count as Special Collection items. A modest hedge cut or a single tree limb genuinely can go out that way. Appliances, televisions, computer monitors and tires are collected by a separate truck and have to be kept apart from everything else, and the city notes that fees may apply for that special handling, so ask when you book. Tires must be 16 inches or under and there is a maximum of five per pickup.
Now the limits, which is where most of our Long Beach work comes from. The city's own refuse rules prohibit debris from construction, remodeling or demolition; rocks, concrete or dirt; hot ashes; and household hazardous waste including paint, motor oil, gasoline and household cleaners. A gutted bathroom, a stripped kitchen, a broken-out patio slab, a pile of stucco, a garage shelf of half-used paint and thinner: none of that is a Special Collection, no matter how many of your 12 are left.
The other limit is who the 12 belong to. They belong to City-serviced accounts. A limited number of private haulers are permitted to collect solid waste inside Long Beach, and the city tells customers on those contracts to deal with their hauler directly, so a large share of apartment buildings sit outside the program entirely. Business-generated waste has no residential route at all. If you manage a building or run a premises here, the free pickups are not yours to spend.
| Who runs it | City of Long Beach Environmental Services Bureau. Not LA Sanitation |
|---|---|
| Cost and limit | 12 free Special Collections per calendar year, per City-serviced account |
| Per pickup | Up to 8 large items or 25 bags, bundles and boxes. Two pickups usable the same day |
| Size caps | Large item max 72 x 48 in. Bundle max 48 in and 40 lb. Bag max 25 lb |
| How to book | (562) 570-2876 or the city's online Special Collection request |
| Set-out | Regular collection point, alley or curb, by 6am on the confirmed day, not before |
| Separate truck | Appliances, TVs, computer monitors and tires. Tires 16 in or under, max 5 |
| Refused | Construction, remodeling and demolition debris, rocks, concrete, dirt, hot ashes, household hazardous waste |
| Not eligible | Buildings on a private permitted hauler's contract, and all business-generated waste |
Sources: City of Long Beach, Special Collection 101 and City of Long Beach, Refuse Collection 101
The alley is the working face of a Long Beach house. Rose Park, Bluff Heights and Belmont Heights were laid out with rear garages opening onto a service alley, and a century later that garage is where the accumulation lives: the previous owner's paint, a workbench nobody uses, boxes stacked to the rafters, and often a converted unit above it. That layout helps us. We back to the garage door and load straight out, with no carry across a lawn and no dragging through the house. It also constrains us. These alleys are single-track, hemmed by power poles, trash bins and parked cars, so we size the truck to the alley and shuttle rather than sit across it and block your neighbors in. Original 1920s stock also means narrow interior doorways and steep stairs, which is why we take doors off hinges and break furniture down in place. See garage cleanouts and estate cleanouts, which in these neighborhoods are frequently the same job.
Downtown and the Ocean Boulevard corridor are a different discipline entirely. Towers, mid-rise conversions and the East Village run on building rules: a dock slot booked in advance, a freight elevator reserved and padded, a certificate of insurance sent to management before the crew arrives, and sometimes an after-hours window because the lease says so. Office fit-outs, medical suites, retail units handed back and server rooms all come out on the building's schedule, not ours. See commercial junk removal and e-waste disposal.
Naples and the Alamitos Bay waterfront are the hardest access in the city. On the canal side there is a footpath and an arched bridge. On the street side the Italian-named lanes are narrow, frequently without a driveway, and there is nowhere to stage a load. Everything walks. Belmont Shore behind Second Street is the same problem with more traffic and tighter parking. We plan the walk distance before we quote, so the number you get already accounts for it rather than growing on the day.
Then the two turnover cycles. Cal State Long Beach on Bellflower Boulevard and Long Beach City College, with its Liberal Arts Campus on Carson Street and its Pacific Coast Campus on Pacific Coast Highway, push a concentrated move-out season through the blocks around them. Mattresses, flat-pack furniture that will not survive a second move, mini fridges, monitors and dead gaming gear, usually on a lease deadline. See mattress removal and furniture removal. Behind the port, the industrial and commercial belt along Anaheim Street and the west side produces pallets, racking, shop fit-outs and workshop clearances. All of that is business waste, so none of it has a city route at any point in the calendar.
Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. The junk removal we run in Long Beach looks like this too: side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where the work actually is.
Long Beach residents have a permanent free hazardous waste and e-waste drop-off, and it is not a S.A.F.E. Center. The EDCO Environmental Collection Center at 2755 California Ave in Signal Hill is a partnership between the cities of Long Beach and Signal Hill, LA County and EDCO, open the second and fourth Saturdays of each month from 9 to 2 and free to LA County residents. The California limit is 125 pounds or 15 gallons per vehicle per visit. It accepts paint, cleaners, pesticides, car batteries, used motor oil, antifreeze, fluorescent tubes, household batteries, sharps and non-controlled medications, plus televisions, monitors, computers and cell phones. It does not accept business hazardous waste, tires, or white goods such as fridges, stoves and washing machines. Bring those categories somewhere else, or leave them with us when we clear the garage.
The rest of a Long Beach load splits the usual way. Electronics have been universal waste in California since the state exemption ended in February 2006, so televisions, CRT monitors and IT gear go to a certified handler rather than a landfill. Mattresses go into California's state-funded recycling program. Scrap metal, including dead water heaters and appliance carcasses, goes to a recycler. Usable furniture, tools and household goods go to donation. Green waste goes to composting. See appliance removal for how refrigerant units are handled.
Remodel and demolition debris is the part with real compliance attached. A Long Beach building permit for new construction, an addition or alteration, or any demolition carries a 65% diversion requirement under the California Green Building Standards Code, backed by a refundable performance deposit that is only returned in proportion to what you actually divert. The city requires you to either self-haul or use a hauler permitted to haul within Long Beach, the final compliance report is due within 90 days of project completion, and receipts that read refuse, waste, MSW or trash are rejected outright. That means the paperwork matters as much as the tonnage. LA Sanitation publishes audited 2026 mixed construction and demolition recycling rates for certified processors, and the nearest ones to Long Beach are American Industrial Services in Long Beach at a 70.00% provisional rate, California Waste Services in Gardena at 82.13%, and Construction & Demolition Recycling in South Gate at 82.80%. When your deposit depends on the number, the difference between those facilities is not academic.
Sources: LA County CleanLA, EDCO Environmental Collection Center, City of Long Beach, Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling Program and LA Sanitation, Construction and Demolition Recycling Program
We are on these streets constantly because we are already next door: Torrance, Gardena, Redondo Beach, Hawthorne. If your job straddles two of them it is still one visit and one number. The full list is on areas we serve. Long Beach jobs that cross into a neighboring city are still quoted as one load.
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.
Alley garages, remodel debris, tower offices, student move-outs and port-side premises.
Drywall, lumber, tile and concrete, hauled to a certified C&D processor.
The whole garage in one visit. We sort, donate what is usable and sweep the slab.
A full property cleared with care, on probate or move-out timelines.
Fridges, washers and AC units. Refrigerant units are handled as universal waste.
TVs, CRT monitors and computers. Banned from the trash in California.
COIs, after-hours dock slots and property-manager invoicing.
Special Collections, alleys and access, mostly.
Twelve per calendar year for each City-serviced account, at no additional cost. Each one takes up to 8 large items or 25 bags, bundles and boxes, and you can use two on the same day. Book on (562) 570-2876 and set the items at your normal collection point by 6am on the confirmed day. It is the most generous bulky program in the region, and for ordinary furniture it is the right answer.
No. The city's refuse rules prohibit debris from construction, remodeling or demolition, along with rocks, concrete and dirt. Drywall, tile, cabinets, framing lumber and a broken-out slab all fall outside Special Collections. We haul them to a certified mixed construction and demolition processor and give you the receipt your permit deposit needs. See construction debris removal.
Only if the account is City-serviced. A limited number of private haulers are permitted to collect solid waste in Long Beach, and buildings on those contracts are told to contact their hauler directly. Business-generated waste is outside the residential program in every case. If you manage units here, treat the 12 pickups as unavailable until you have confirmed who services the address.
The EDCO Environmental Collection Center at 2755 California Ave in Signal Hill, on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 9 to 2. It is free to LA County residents and capped at 125 pounds or 15 gallons per vehicle. It takes no business waste, no tires and no white goods. If we are clearing the garage we separate those items and route them for you.
Yes. On the canal islands we park where the lane allows, walk the load out and protect the footbridge route on the way. Tell us roughly how far the walk is when you call, because we build it into the flat number rather than adding it afterwards. See furniture removal.
Constantly. It is the fastest way to clear a 1920s bungalow or duplex, because we back to the garage door instead of carrying through the house. The alleys are single-track, so we bring a truck sized to fit and shuttle rather than block the run. See garage cleanouts.
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Fridges, washers, dryers and AC units, de-gassed and scrapped legally.
COIs, after-hours dock slots and property-manager invoicing.
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.
Booked and cleared today where the schedule allows.
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.
Send a photo, get a flat number back. Free, no obligation, no pressure and no call-out fee — and if your city will haul it free instead, we will tell you that too. Most requests are answered within the hour during working hours.
