A post-storm pile is four different materials pretending to be one problem. Each travels a different route and carries a different price — and the moment they touch, the cheaper rates stop applying to the parts that would have qualified.
Cut vegetation $88/cu yd · construction debris $120/cu yd · household from $241
Upload Photos & Get Quote →People arrive at this question wanting to know what the collection will and won't take. We genuinely don't know, and neither does anyone writing about it from outside your municipality.
Miami-Dade is split across many separate cities plus unincorporated areas, arrangements differ between them, and after any given event they can differ again. A page stating confidently what "the county pass" collects is describing one arrangement at one moment and quietly misleading everyone else.
So ask your own city, and the county, directly. That's the only reliable answer, and it takes one call.
We also won't advise on anything structural, electrical, or to do with damp and mould. Those need licensed professionals, and we are not an emergency service — anything urgent or unsafe is a matter for county emergency management.
This part is checkable, because it comes from our own price list.
Cut vegetation — branches, fronds, hedge, uprooted planting. Bulky, comparatively light, and it has its own route.
Household contents — furniture, appliances, the contents of cupboards.
Construction and demolition material — fence panels, soffit, screen frames, roofing offcuts, broken tile, anything structural that came away.
Anything soaked — which is less a category than a condition, and it changes what's possible for everything it touches.
These aren't arbitrary labels. They price differently because they cost different amounts to move and dispose of, and that difference is the whole practical argument of this page.
Set side by side, the numbers make the case better than any argument.
| Material | Price |
|---|---|
| Cut vegetation / yard waste | $88 per cubic yard |
| Construction & demolition debris | $120 per cubic yard |
| Household — quarter truck (4 cu yd) | $241 |
| Household — half truck (8 cu yd) | $431 |
| Household — full truck (16 cu yd) | $732 |
| Sofa | $126 |
| Mattress + box spring, as a set | $143 |
| Refrigerator | $164 |
| Minimum job | $75 |
Look at the per-yard figures. Vegetation is $88. Construction debris is $120 — around a third more, because it's dramatically heavier for the same space. And a full household truck is $732 for sixteen cubic yards, which works out well under either.
Three different rates for the same volume of space. That's why what's in the pile matters more than how big it looks.
Concretely, with the numbers above.
Six cubic yards of clean branches is $528 at the vegetation rate.
The same six yards, once it's tangled into a pile of broken fence panels and soffit, isn't vegetation any more — nobody can separate it at the far end, so it travels as debris. At $120 a yard that's $720.
The mixing cost $192, and it happened because branches got thrown onto the same heap as the fence. Nobody made a decision; it just ended up there.
Scale that across a whole property and the sorting hour starts to look like the best-paid hour of the entire clean-up.
Two minutes, and it's the step people skip when they're in a hurry to make the place look normal again.
If there's any prospect of an insurance question, photographs taken in place are the only record that will exist once an item is on a truck. Wide enough to show the room or the yard as well as the object.
Our crew will wait while you do it, or take them for you if you'd rather.
What we can't do is advise on the claim itself — what's covered, how an adjuster will see it, what to submit. That's a conversation with your insurer, and it's much better had before the removal than after.
Worth knowing early rather than discovering after storing something for a fortnight.
Upholstery and mattresses absorb water into materials that can't be dried out properly once saturated. The foam and fill hold it, and no reuse organisation will accept them afterwards. That isn't a judgement about anyone's furniture — it's what those materials do.
The same applies to particle board, cardboard and anything paper-based. Swelling is irreversible.
So soaked soft furnishings move straight to disposal, and the only useful decision left is how quickly they leave rather than whether they can be saved. Solid wood, metal and most appliances are a different conversation — a refrigerator is $164 either way.
Four separate places, and it doesn't need to be tidy — just separate.
Vegetation in its own heap, ideally where a grab or a crew can reach it without walking through anything else.
Construction material in another — fence, screen, soffit, tile, timber.
Household items kept clear of both, because a sofa in a debris pile becomes debris.
Anything soaked flagged as such, so nobody wastes time assessing whether it's salvageable.
If space is tight, prioritise keeping the vegetation clean — it's the category with the most to lose, since it has the cheapest rate to fall from.
Different constraints, same principle.
There's rarely anywhere to sort. A balcony or a corridor doesn't offer four separate places, so the sorting happens as things are carried out rather than at a kerb.
And the building layer still applies — a certificate of insurance filed with management and a reserved service elevator, neither of which can be arranged in a day. That sequence is here, and after an event every unit in the building wants it simultaneously.
Which is the argument for doing the discretionary clearing in spring, when none of this is competing with anything.
A house in Kendall after a bad night. What came out of it:
Sorted, that's $1,277.
Had the branches gone onto the same heap as the fence — which is what happens by default when everything is dragged to one spot — the vegetation would have travelled as debris and the same job would have cost $192 more, for no additional material and no extra work by anyone.
Honestly, and without pretending we're something we're not.
Demand after an event arrives all at once across the whole region while capacity stays exactly where it was. Every hauler, every crew, every truck — the same arithmetic as the pre-season page, just on the other side of the storm.
We come when it's safe and when roads and buildings allow, in the order bookings were made. We don't operate during warnings and we're not a substitute for anyone official.
If your building needs paperwork and a lift booking, that adds days on top — and those days start when management is at their busiest.
Yard waste at $88 a cubic yard — the cheapest rate available. Keep it clean and keep it separate; it's the category with the most to lose.
Construction debris at $120 a cubic yard. Dense and heavy, so the volume is usually less than it looks stacked.
Household rates — individually or on the truck tiers, whichever is lower. Full price list here.
Straight to disposal for soft furnishings. Photograph first if insurance may be involved, then let it go.
Send photographs anyway and we'll quote what's actually there. Sorting saves money; not sorting isn't a refusal.
Not us, and not a hauling question. Licensed professionals, and your county emergency management office.
We can't tell you what your collection will or won't take — that varies by municipality across Miami-Dade and by event, and it comes from your own city or the county. What we can tell you is why some material moves through different channels: cut vegetation, household contents, construction material and anything soaked all behave differently. Sorting them at the kerb before anyone quotes is the most useful hour you can spend, because separated material keeps its cheaper route.
Density and mixing. Vegetation is $88 a cubic yard; construction and demolition material is $120 because it's far heavier; household contents ride the truck tiers where a full 16-yard load is $732 and works out cheaper per yard. A storm pile usually contains all three, and once genuinely mixed the cheaper rates stop applying. That's the mechanism behind a large bill — not the storm, but the sorting that didn't happen.
Yes, before anything moves. If there's any prospect of an insurance question, photographs taken in place are the only record that will exist once the item is on a truck. Wide enough to show the room as well as the object. We'll wait while you do it. We can't advise on the claim, what's covered or how an adjuster will treat anything — that's your insurer, ideally before the removal.
Almost never. Upholstery and mattresses absorb water into materials that can't be dried out once saturated, and no reuse organisation will take them afterwards. That's not a judgement about your furniture, it's what those materials do. Soaked soft furnishings go straight to disposal, and the only decision left is how quickly they leave.
By what leaves, and it depends on what's in the pile. Vegetation $88 a cubic yard, construction debris $120 a cubic yard, household either individually or on the truck tiers — quarter truck $241, full load $732, $75 minimum. A typical yard with branches, damaged fence and a couple of soaked pieces is usually several hundred dollars, and meaningfully cheaper if the categories were kept apart.
We're not an emergency service and don't operate during warnings, so we come when it's safe and when roads and buildings allow, along with everyone else. Demand arrives all at once while capacity stays the same, so booking is slower than usual. If your building needs a COI and a reserved elevator, that adds days. Anything urgent, unsafe or structural is for county emergency management and licensed professionals.
Four materials, four places to put them — decided before anything gets dragged to one spot.
The expensive part of a storm clean-up usually isn't the volume. It's that everything ended up in a single heap, at which point the cheapest material in the pile gets charged at the dearest material's rate, and nobody chose that.
You can't control what the weather left or what any collection will accept. You can control whether the branches are still branches by the time somebody quotes them — and that's worth more than any other hour you'll spend on it.
Quoted by category · mixed loads split automatically · flat price before we arrive
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