10 Most Unusual Garbage Items Collected in 2025

Drivers for 1-800-GOT-JUNK often collect the usual big, bulky items — mattresses, furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, tires — but occasionally they come across some odd finds. Here are the most ‘unique’ items people discarded in 2025, with the top item coming from a haul in Montreal.

1. Two 20-foot tall shovels.

2. James Dean cutout.

3. Giant pink flamingo.

4. Carousel horse.

5. Papier-mâché giraffe mask.

6. Full-mount blue marlin.

7. Life-size rainbow ostrich.

8. Three-hundred-pound pink piggy bank.

9. Kid on a bike statue with missing arm.

10. Garbozilla – a gargantuan, fire-breathing, scrap metal dinosaur (from Science World in Vancouver)