What can go in a dumpster?

Most of what comes out of a house or a job site. Furniture and household clearout, lumber and framing, drywall, flooring, carpet, cabinets, doors, windows, roofing, siding, and general demolition debris.

What cannot go in, no matter the size:

• Hazardous waste of any kind: paint, chemicals, solvents, oil, fuel
• Tires
• Propane tanks and pressurized cylinders
• Batteries
• Asbestos
• Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners, because of the refrigerant
• Electronics and televisions
• Medical waste

Most of that goes to a household hazardous waste day, and the appliances and electronics can come out as priced bulk items instead.

Two loading rules that matter more than people expect:

• Nothing above the rim. A dumpster loaded over the top cannot be tarped, and an untarped load cannot legally leave your driveway. The driver will not take it, and you will be waiting for a second trip.
• Watch the weight. Every rental has a tonnage limit: one ton on a 10-yard, up to five on a 30-yard. Dense material such as concrete, brick, soil, tile and wet plaster hits that limit long before the container looks full. Call us before you start on a job like that.

Going over the tonnage limit is charged at $170 per ton, prorated, so you pay for the actual overage rather than a rounded-up whole ton. A 12% fuel surcharge is added to the final bill. Sizes, prices and terms are on dumpster rental, and here is how long you get it for.