{"id":162918,"date":"2025-08-21T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162918\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:44:15","slug":"b-c-junk-removal-company-accused-of-illegally-dumping-garbage-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162918\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. junk removal company accused of illegally dumping garbage &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/maple-ridge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maple Ridge<\/a>, B.C., confirms that a company seen dumping waste and hazardous material in a forested area has been fined and has cleaned up the mess.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Devean Schoenfelder, who owns Dev\u2019s Disposals, spotted the company, Junk Be Gone, around 8 p.m. on Tuesday and turned around to see what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I realized he was dumping garbage and I pulled out my phone, started taking photos, as best I could,\u201d he told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey couldn\u2019t find a place to dump it so I guess they came here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoenfelder said he has seen people illegally dumping garbage before and it shouldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sarj Dhaliwal, owner of Junk Be Gone Disposal, said one of his employees took a company vehicle without his knowledge and illegally dumped the garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I learned about this, I immediately went to the site myself, cleaned up the mess, and have been in contact with the City of Maple Ridge, bylaw enforcement, and the RCMP to fully cooperate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make it clear: Junk Be Gone Disposal does not condone or practice illegal dumping. I am a small business owner with a young family, and I\u2019ve built this business on honesty and hard work. This incident does not reflect who we are or how we operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhaliwal confirmed that the employee was terminated.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Officials warn against illegal dumping in Metro Vancouver'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5P_METRO_VANCOUVER_ILLE_OM017V7Q_pic.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:11<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficials warn against illegal dumping in Metro Vancouver\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11341172\/canada-post-union-talks-resume-air-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/830790f1042db5c12345d3348e3e0e032f53c3da1fd737968d159b321dd2e067.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada Post, union to restart labour talks after Air Canada strike ends\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11339269\/marius-borg-hoiby-norway-crown-princess-son-rape-charges\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2165187213.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSon of Norway\u2019s crown princess charged with 32 offences, including rape\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The City of Maple Ridge says it takes illegal dumping very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon receiving reports of a junk disposal company dumping waste and hazardous materials in a forested area, City staff responded immediately to secure the site, assess the impacts, and begin clean-up,\u201d the city said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter relocating the waste material to the Cottonwood landfill, City teams have issued a fine to the non-local business owner who has now collected and removed the waste material from the area. Bylaw will pursue all appropriate enforcement actions as required to ensure accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen illegal dumping of any material is asked to call 604-463-9581 or 604-467-7305.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Maple Ridge, B.C., confirms that a company seen dumping waste and hazardous material in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,746,46124,94156,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-162918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-illegal-dumping","11":"tag-maple-ridge","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064934498318817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}