Junk Removal in Burnaby, BC

Burnaby generates two completely different kinds of junk job, and which one you have changes how the day runs more than the pile does.

The first is tower work. Metrotown, Brentwood and Edmonds have some of the densest highrise housing in the region, and a removal there is really a logistics job: a booked elevator, a loading bay with a time window, and a long push from the unit to the truck. The second is house work in the older parts of the city — Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, Deer Lake — where the constraint is a full basement or a garage that has not been emptied in twenty years, and the truck can usually back most of the way to it.

Most of what we clear in Burnaby is ordinary: a basement suite emptied between tenants, a garage that has become storage, furniture left behind after a sale, a renovation's worth of debris. What sets the price is how much there is and what kind of junk it is. A mattress costs the same whether it comes down from a tenth floor or off a driveway, but a load with a few mattresses in it is priced differently from one without, because the facility prices them differently.

Dump fees are included in our price, so there's no separate disposal line on your bill. Where the load goes still matters if you take it in yourself: from Burnaby that is usually the Vancouver South Transfer Station, not a Burnaby site.

Burnaby's Large Item Pickup is open to any household on City of Burnaby curbside collection. Houses and duplexes can book up to 3 items per pickup; apartments, condos and townhomes, up to 6 items per complex. Request it with the City's online form or at 604-294-7972, and the City sends a date, time and location; you bring the items to that spot. Furniture, bed frames, appliances, hot water tanks and patio furniture are on the accepted list. Mattresses thicker than 4 inches must be wrapped and sealed in plastic, and mirrors wrapped (City of Burnaby: Large Item Pickup, checked 11 October 2026).

The City's list of items it won't take is where a Burnaby call to us usually starts:

• Electronics. TVs, computers and other electronics aren't collected. We take them through our separately priced e-waste pickup.
• Renovation leftovers. Building, demolition and renovation material, kitchen cabinets and doors are refused. We haul renovation debris such as old cabinets, tile, flooring and lumber. Drywall we don't take.
• Getting it to the spot. The City collects from the location it gives you, so in a Metrotown or Brentwood tower the sofa still has to come out of the suite and down to it. We carry from the suite, with no extra charge for the floor; you book the elevator or loading bay and tell us the window.
• More than the limit. Over 3 items from a house, or 6 for a whole complex, in one pickup.
• Today. Same-day pickup is guaranteed anywhere in Burnaby, at no extra charge.

Burnaby is roughly half apartment housing, and it is concentrated: the towers around Metrotown, the Brentwood and Gilmore corridor along Lougheed Highway, and the Edmonds and Highgate cluster in the southeast. Those buildings almost always have a bookable elevator and a loading bay, and almost always have a strata rule about when either can be used.

The rest is detached and townhouse stock, and it is older than the towers. Burnaby Heights and Capitol Hill run to narrow lots with rear lanes and steep side approaches. The Deer Lake and Buckingham area has larger lots with long driveways. Burnaby Mountain around SFU adds grade — a genuinely steep approach in wet weather changes how many crew a job needs.

Townhouse complexes across Burquitlam and Lougheed are the awkward middle: no loading bay, limited visitor parking, and often a long carry from the unit to wherever the truck can legally stop.

Towers. Book the elevator and the loading bay before you book us, and tell us the window. Most Burnaby buildings want notice, and several only permit moves outside peak hours. If the bay has a height limit, we need to know before the truck arrives.

Rear lanes. Much of Burnaby Heights and Willingdon Heights is served by lanes rather than driveways. Lanes are narrower than they look on a map, and a parked car halfway down one can block a truck completely. If your access is by lane, say so when you call.

Grade. Capitol Hill and Burnaby Mountain have genuinely steep approaches. A steep, wet driveway is a crew-size question, not a truck question — we would rather send an extra pair of hands than damage a surface.

Townhouse complexes. Visitor parking is usually the limit. Tell us where a truck can legally stop and how far that is from your door; the carry doesn't change the price, but it does change how we plan the crew.

Burnaby's own facilities are narrower than people expect. The Waste-to-Energy Facility on Riverbend Drive is in Burnaby but takes commercial loads only, so it is not an option for a household load. The Burnaby Eco-Centre on Still Creek handles recycling drop-off rather than general garbage. And no Burnaby depot accepts cardboard, which catches people out on move-out and renovation jobs.

That means a general Burnaby load usually goes to the Vancouver South Transfer Station at 377 West Kent Avenue North — a City of Vancouver facility, priced under the City's schedule rather than Metro Vancouver's. The two systems do not match: the City's minimum charge is $20 at peak and $10 off-peak, against $25 and $15 regionally, and the per-load maximums differ too. The table above is the schedule that applies there.

Drywall is the one material we will not take, and it is worth knowing why it is awkward: the transfer station does not accept used residential drywall at all. The Vancouver Landfill in Delta does, at $210 per tonne with a $10 minimum, and Metro Vancouver's used-drywall program also takes it at its recycling and waste centres: drywall from your own home only, double-bagged, up to ten 10 kg bags a visit. If your renovation includes drywall, that part is a separate trip you make yourself or hand to a specialist. We will say so when you book rather than leaving you to find out.

One quirk worth knowing: giant hogweed, daphne and devil's club are accepted only at the Waste-to-Energy Facility, which happens to be the Burnaby site. If you have pulled invasive plants, that changes where the load goes.

Dump fees are included in our price, so none of these charges shows up as a separate line on your bill. Usable items are sometimes donated, but we don't promise it, and we do not claim a diversion rate we cannot evidence — recyclable and stewardship material is separated because the facilities surcharge loads that contain it, and because those programs are free.