"Started knocking on doors when I saw someone had a pile of junk in their alley, the laneway. "Called the company the Rubbish Boys," he said.
"We had a guy from Ottawa in Canada go to Sydney and spend a few months working in the trucks in Australia, and he said, 'Brian, it's the same junk in every city.'"Īnd they get a whole host of bizarre stuff, with a few memorable gems, including John Wayne's personal Bible, a truckload of denture molds, a defused World War II bomb, a trophy from a nudist colony, 50 garden gnomes, 18,000 cans of expired sardines and even a live kitten who was found inside of a refrigerator.Īfter the junk is collected, Scudamore explained, it is taken to transfer stations and recycling depots. One thousand trucks do the simple task of picking up people's unwanted stuff and getting rid of it. It hit its first $1 million year in 1999 and now brings in roughly $100 million each year. "So I think it's for sure people don't realize how much they have until it's time to get rid of it."īut the company has seen tremendous growth overall. "Some people, it's just like, you know, 'Clean out my entire garage,' and we get to work doing it and they're kind of watching, and they're like, 'Oh jeez, I didn't even know I had that,'" said Wyatt Skovron, one of the 1-800-GOT-JUNK crew members.
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