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Slave Lake Donations Trashed

Last weekend, boxes were found at the Calgary dump containing donations that were collected for the people in need in Slave Lake. These items did not make it to Slave Lake and instead ended up at the Spyhill landfill. We want to clarify that 1-800-Got-Junk? was not involved with this customer, and it was one of our competitors that failed to donate the items. Click here to read the full article.

'The Junk Barometer' on CBC Radio

1-800-Got-Junk Calgary was featured on CBC Radio's the Eyeopener in a segment about how the current economic status affects the junk we collect. This segment, titled 'The Junk Barometer as an Economic Indicatotor highlights a ride along to a customer's home and a tour through our transfer station. Check out the whole story here.

Spicing Up Spaces in the News

1-800-GOT-JUNK? participated in the annual "Spicing Up Spaces" event organizied by U of C Haskayne students and we were on hand with a truck to haul away the junk built up from the renovations and clean-up. Check out the video on the event by the Calgary Herald here.

Helping Realtors Clean Out Homes

Read about how 1-800-GOT-JUNK? helps busy Realtors to keep up in Calgary's red-hot real-estate market and what kind of weird junk they come across.

YouTube Video of Junk Removal Services

Check out this video filmed by a local TV crew as they follow our 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Truck Team around to see what a typical day is like for our guys; from recycling furniture and metal, to the exciting trips to the dump. Our Truck Team members Alan and Mike are soon to be movie stars!

Junk Removal Goes High-Tech

Ever wondered how we manage to get all of our 1-800-GOT-JUNK? trucks where they're supposed to be and when they're supposed to be there? Well, apart from having employees with a great sense of direction, we also employ a GPS system on all of our trucks to help them navigate Calgary's busy roadways, and get to the right place at the right time!

Read about how 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Calgary uses GPS technology to manage its operations.

Organizing Week helpers

1-800-GOT-JUNK? and the Professional Organizers of Canada helped the Canadian Red Cross organize their office in Calgary. We removed 1,700 pounds of junk on this job.

Articles

1-800-GOT-JUNK? featured on A&E's Hoarders

In The Community

2011 Annual Stampede Breakfast

It was a fantastic turn out at the annual Stampede Breakfast at the Southland Leisure Centre. There was almost 5,000 Calgarians that came out to participate in the festivities and to get some pancakes into their morning. Once again, the 1-800-GOT-JUNK? team was on hand to help with the clean-up and junk removal. All of the kids were super impressed with our toy 1-800-GOT-JUNK? trucks that we gave out during the breakfast.

22nd Annual Bowness Lions Club Stampede Parade

The Bowness Lions Club hosted another successful Stampede parade and breakfast. The Parade route travelled down Bowness Road from the Shouldice Bridge to Bowness Plaza, where the Pancake Breakfast was held.  The streets were lined with hundreds of families hoping to catch some of the thousands of pounds of candy thrown to the crowd by the passing floats.

The team had a fabulous time meeting and greeting some of our neighbors and joining in the stampede celebrations! Tanks again to the Bowness Lions Club for all their hard work in putting this event on for another year!

Yard Sale for the Cure 2011

On Saturday, May 28th, the Yard Sale For The Cure 2011 took place at the WillowRidge Community Centre. This annual event is presented by RE/MAX to collect donations and raise proceeds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. This cause encourages Canadians to hold a yard sale and donate the proceeds to help in the fight against breast cancer. In 2010, combined proceeds from the one-day yard sales raised over $100,000, as more than 1,000 people hosted and shopped to help raise money for breast cancer research. 1-800-Got-Junk helped out by donating a truck to take away the leftover donations.

2011 Underwear Affair

The 1-800-GOT-JUNK? team were amongst the 1,450 people who took to the streets of Calgary on June 4th for the 2011 Calgary Underwear Affair. Together we raised a lot of eyebrows, but more importantly, we raised over $2,000 adding to an incredible $855,000 for research that will ultimately benefit patients at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and throughout Alberta. The money we raised will help researchers uncover new treatments and ways to prevent devastating yet “hidden” cancers like prostate, colorectal, ovarian, testicular, bladder, cervical, and uterine. Our support of The Underwear Affair will make sure these cancers get the attention they deserve.

5th Annual Montgomery Clean-up and Recycling Event

The Montgomery clean up is an annual event to help remove junk and clutter from the houses of the members of this community. For the fifth year in a row, we lent a helping hand by sending our trucks to remove unwanted junk. We were sent to pick up goods from the houses of elderly and disabled community members and collect them at the community centre.

U of C Electronics Recycling

Every year, around 1500 students move out of residence at the University of Calgary. Many of these students find they no longer need the electronics they used over their academic career. This year the U of C asked us if we could recycle all the electronics that the students would have usually thrown out. Over the course of the last two weeks, we have had two of our trucks on site at all times to collect the used electronics. Additionally, we put six metal cages close to the residence buildings to make the recycling process as easy as possible for the students. This event was a great success and we're looking forward to making this an annual recycling effort to divert as many electronics from the landfill as possible.

Spicing Up Spaces

Every year the Commerce Undergraduate Society program from U of C help out a needy family in Calgary and completely retransform their home in 48 hours. The program is called “Spicing Up Spaces” and this year over 80 students participated in the event. Students busily worked away transforming the home by cleaning, sanding, grinding, painting and even bringing in new furniture, fixtures and decorating. With over 500 hours volunteered by Haskayne students and with the help of generous sponsors such as Certified General Accountants Association of Alberta, CollegePro Painters, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and others the event was a success. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? helped out with a truck on-site to haul away the trash and debris generated from the clean-up and renovations. “GOT-JUNK is always great,” says Everett Knight, one of the volunteers this year. “They put a truck right out front and we just throw in the garbage and they pick it up.”

Calgary Pathway and River Clean-up 2010

The 1-800-GOT-JUNK crew joined over 2,100 other volunteers on Sunday for Calgary Annual Pathway and River Clean up. Thousands of garbage bags of litter ranging from paper to iPods to bicycles were collected. This was the first year the volunteer divers were sent out to clean the river waters, which protects not only the health of Calgary’s water supply but the wide range of wildlife that call the river home.

1-800-GOT-JUNK? Celebrates Earth Day

At 1-800-GOT-JUNK? environmental responsibility is important to us. As a celebration of Earth Day 2009 we offered a free electronic waste disposal event at three Staples locations in Calgary. We collected three full truckloads of unwanted computers, monitors, printers and other components. We handed all of it over to eCycle Solutions, an ARMA-approved e-waste recycler who will guarantee secure data destruction and environmentally sound recycling.