Junk Raiders is a Canadian reality television series that debuted in 2009 on The Discovery Channel and ION Life.
The series follows the titular Junk Raiders, a team of professionals who attempt to renovate a designated space over a short period of time, and with a relatively low budget.
Because of the extremely limited budgets, many of the materials needed must be found by freecycling: finding something unwanted for free and reusing it.
The first season of Junk Raiders aired in 2009 and followed a seven-member team as they attempted to renovate an old steel factory in downtown Toronto and turn it into a high-end loft in one month with only a C$5500 budget.
On the second season, of 2011, the team was expanded to eight members, and the task was to renovate a site in Toronto's Don Valley (on Bayview Avenue), converting it to a two-story "clubhouse" in one month with only a C$5000 budget, as part of the Evergreen Brick Works project.