Brush clearance, palm fronds, branches, sod, soil and storm debris. Green waste is its own stream and it is heavy, so we price it by weight and quote it flat before we start.
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A pile of yard waste lies about its size. Cut brush is mostly water, sod is soil with grass on top, and a palm frond takes the room of a bicycle and weighs like a wet carpet. This is not a furniture job with leaves on it, so we quote it the way it is actually charged. By weight, flat, before we start.
Those three facts shape the job. The one-ton minimum is why a single palm trimming and a half-day of brush clearance cost closer together than you would expect. The scale hours are why a Saturday yard job starts early, and the tarp rule is why our loads go under a cover before they leave your street.
The region also has one fewer scale than it did. Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic stopped accepting waste on 1 January 2025, after a subsurface elevated temperature event, and is now in closure. Any hauler's page still listing Chiquita as an option was written before 2025 and has not been checked since.
Sources: Sunshine Canyon Landfill drop-off information (14747 San Fernando Rd, Sylmar); Waste Dive on the Chiquita Canyon closure.
| Los Angeles | LASAN bulky pickup, free and unlimited, on your trash day. Curbside only, no construction material. | Curbside |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | 12 free special collections a year, up to 8 large items or 25 bundles each. (562) 570-2876. | 12 a year |
| El Segundo | 4 free pickups a year, 6 items each, via EDCO. Excludes dirt, concrete and asphalt. | 4 a year |
| Santa Monica | 3 free pickups a year, maximum 5 items each. Extra pickups billed hourly, one-hour minimum. | 3 a year |
| Culver City | 2 free a year for single-family homes, up to 6 items. | 2 a year |
| Pasadena | 2 free a year, refuse customers only. About 3 cubic yards, nothing heavier than two people can lift. | 2 a year |
| Torrance | 1 free pickup per address per year, up to 20 items. Phone only, (855) 354-5623. | 1 a year |
Sources: LASAN bulky-item pickup, Long Beach special collections, El Segundo, Santa Monica, Culver City, Pasadena, Torrance. Programs change — confirm with your city before you rely on one.
Read that table as a yard owner. Five items in Santa Monica is one dead shrub and four bundles. Six in Culver City is an afternoon of hedge work. Three cubic yards in Pasadena, with a two-person lift limit, rules out sod and soil entirely. Even Long Beach is counting bundles, and a slope does not come off in bundles. None of which makes those programs bad — if your job is a few tied bundles and you can wait for your trash day, we will tell you so on the phone.
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.
We will not quote you an ordinance number, a deadline or a fine amount. Requirements differ by parcel and they change, and the LAFD Brush Clearance Unit is the only correct source for what applies to your address. What we can describe is the work.
Hillside clearance produces a large volume of light, springy material that compacts badly and has to be carried to a street that is narrow, parked solid and short of anywhere legal to stage a pile. The job is mostly carry: material moved by hand, bundled where it can be, staged by the truck, tarped and gone.
Two practical notes. Book earlier in the season than feels necessary, because every hillside owner in Silver Lake, Los Feliz and the streets above Studio City books at once. And get the cut material off the property rather than stacking it at the back fence, which is the exact thing the inspection is about.
What comes off the load: pesticides, herbicides and weed killer, pool chemicals, fuel, and the old motor oil from the mower. A general hauler transporting household hazardous waste in California is breaking the law, so we set it aside and tell you what it is. The S.A.F.E. Collection Centers take all of it free from City of LA and LA County residents, capped at 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit — a state transport limit nobody can waive.
Also not green waste: bagged concrete, broken pavers, brick and tile. That is construction debris, and in the City of LA it has to go to a certified processing facility.
Source: LASAN S.A.F.E. Collection Centers.
Send pictures of the pile and of the route out to the street. We tell you whether it is a volume job or a weight job and quote it flat. Soil, sod and rock change the answer, so mention them.
Nothing needs dragging to the curb. We carry it out, up the slope or through the gate, which on a hillside lot is most of the labor.
Clean green in one stream, metal to scrap, debris and treated lumber apart from it, hazardous material set aside for you. Mixing those turns a clean green load into an expensive mixed one.
The load goes under a cover before it leaves your street and gets weighed in before scales close. Then we rake the ground and go.
Palms and slopes are not evenly distributed in this city. Frond and brush work in Encino, Tarzana and Woodland Hills, hillside clearance above Sherman Oaks and Glendale, sod and soil on flat lots in Torrance and Burbank, and storm cleanup everywhere at once. Full list on the areas we serve page.
Yard jobs rarely stay in the yard. The same visit often takes the collapsing garden shed, the spa nobody has heated in years — see hot tub removal — and the garage the yard tools were supposed to live in. Clearing a whole property for a sale or a probate is an estate cleanout, quoted as one job. Our guide to what junk removal costs in LA explains volume against weight in plain terms.
Call or text (323) 230-0777, or send photos to team@lajunkhauling.com. One flat number before we start, no obligation, and an honest answer if your city can do it for free instead.
One bag of plastic pots in a green load can reclassify the whole thing as trash at the gate, which is why we sort before we tip.
What people ask before a slope, a palm or a lawn gets loaded onto a truck.
Green waste is priced by weight rather than by how tall the pile looks, because that is how the disposal site charges us. Fresh cut brush, palm fronds, sod and soil are wet and dense, so a pile that looks like a quarter truck can weigh more than a truck of furniture. You get one flat number before we start, quoted from photos or a walkthrough. See how our pricing works.
No, and this is the honest answer nobody wants. A green bin is sized for a weekly hedge trim and a bag of clippings, not for a slope stripped of dead brush or a palm that has just been trimmed. One afternoon of clearance produces more material than a household green bin will take in a season, which is why brush jobs get hauled rather than binned.
LASAN's curbside bulky-item pickup is free and you book it through MyLA311 or 1-800-773-2489, but it is a curbside service on your regular trash day and it will not take construction material. It is a genuinely good option for a few tied bundles left at the curb. It is not an option for a hillside clearance, a stack of palm fronds or a pallet of sod, and nobody from the city comes into your yard to get it.
Yes, and we take a lot of them. Fronds are bulky, fibrous and awkward to compact, which is why some haulers quietly leave them behind. We load them whole where we can, cut them down where we have to, and tarp the load, because loose fronds on a freeway are how loads become citations.
Yes. Treat all four as weight jobs rather than volume jobs. A few pallets of lifted sod or a torn-out gravel bed will hit the truck's weight limit long before it fills the bed, so these are quoted by weight and often loaded in more than one trip. Tell us on the call if there is soil or rock in the pile, because it changes the quote and the truck we bring.
We haul what has been cut and we cut back overgrowth we can reach safely, but we are haulers rather than a tree service or a licensed arborist. Anything requiring climbing, rigging or a chainsaw in a tree canopy belongs with a tree crew. Once it is on the ground, getting it off the property is our part of the job, and on hillside lots that carry is most of the work.
Usually the same day or the next one. We run crews Monday to Saturday around the clock, and Sunday afternoons and evenings. Storm weeks are the exception to everything else on this page — the whole city calls at once, so book early in the day and expect scales to be busy.
Pesticides, herbicides, weed killer, pool chemicals, fuel and old motor oil from the mower. A general hauler cannot legally transport household hazardous waste in California, so those come off the load and go to a S.A.F.E. Collection Center, free for City of LA and LA County residents. Bagged concrete, broken pavers and torn-out decking are also not green waste — that is construction debris and it travels under different rules.
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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.
Food scraps in the green bin, palm fronds that jam the truck, trunks the city will not take, and the state law behind all of it.
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.
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.
