Range Removal

Range Removal is a Foothill-based company providing weekly rural garbage collection to several communities and 10 yard bins at competitive rates. Range offers lower pricing on weekly collections because we design and build our garbage collection units at our operations center in Aldersyde.

Bruce Wilkins
Owner/Operations Manager

Bruce is a man of many talents, quirks but very few vices.  Educated as an Engineer from the University of Alberta, Bruce finds zen while fabricating and designing 'cool stuff' such as our Bruce-built garbage collection unit. Bruce grew up mere minutes away from where Range Removal operates out of the Warner Business Park in Aldersyde, which is located in the beautiful County of Foothills. 

In the winter months, Bruce provides joy and happiness to wonderful Albertans from Grande Prairie to Medicine Hat as one of Alberta's busiest Christmas Tree distributors. Bruce's company delivers over 4000 premium Christmas trees each and every holiday season to tree lots all over our fine province.   

If you consider Bruce the Santa of Christmas trees, think twice about leaving him milk and cookies. Bruce is admittedly addicted to blasting his biceps and glutes so he can (in his own words) 'work as hard as when I'm 70 as I do now'.  This Santa of Christmas trees would prefer a banana, protein shake and some space to do some deadlifts.

Mike Bergstrom
Owner/Does Everything Else

Mike grew up on a farm in Meeting Creek, Alberta and longed for the peace and quiet of rural Alberta after living  and working in the city for over two decades. Mike founded Range Recycling in 2017 with aspirations of breathing clean country air while diverting waste material from the landfill. Range Recycling now services over 600 relatively satisfied customers in the County of Foothills, Bragg Creek and Redwood meadows.  Mike is well known all over the county as the 'Recycling Guy' and is easily recognized by his unkept beard and arm full of cardboard. 

After years of Range Recycling's clients asking if Mike would provide more affordable weekly garbage collection, it became clear that the 'Recycling Guy' needed to start offering affordable garbage collection in order to please the masses.  

Julio Lingares
Operator

Julio is a proud father to Max and loving husband to his wife, Zoe. Julio may be the coolest cucumber in the fridge as he, after years of working with Bruce and Mike, has yet to get rattled under any circumstance and has a smile on his face from sun-up to sun-down. There is nothing Range's superhero operator can't do.  Julio has the skills to build a house from the ground up, operate a chain of restaurants, lift over 300 pounds without flinching (okay, we may be exaggerating a bit) all while being a ray of sunshine to those around him.

In his spare time you will find Julio hiking the foothills with his family, flying kites with his son or continuing his quest to determine the best-tasting tequila available in Alberta.