# DumpsterGod — US dumpster rental answers

> Independent US dumpster rental answers: who you actually rent from, why prices vary by region, and what your state will not let you throw away.

Source: https://dumptergod.shop/
Last reviewed: 2026-08-17

# Who you are actually renting that dumpster from

Independent answers on US dumpster rental — who you are actually renting from, what it really costs, and what your state will not let you throw away.

[Broker or hauler?](https://dumptergod.shop/companies/) [What can go in](https://dumptergod.shop/what-can-go-in/)

 verified-permit-record.json

// Read at the city. Not from a rental company.
{
  "city": "Appleton, WI",
  "street_placement": "permit required",
  "driveway": "no permit",
  "instrument": "Occupancy Permit",
  "fee_usd": 40,
  "lead_time_business_days": 5,
  "source": "appletonwi.gov",
  "verified": "2026-08-17"
}

3 cities verified2 of 3 publish no fee

$62.28US average landfill tipping fee per ton, 2024 — up 10% in a year, and the largest input into your quoteEREF

$84.44Northeast average per ton in 2023, against $62.28 in the Pacific region — the same load, $67 apart at the gateEREF / BioCycle

76.1%of US construction debris went to next-use markets in 2018, not landfill — which is why clean loads cost lessEPA

## The thing the rest of this industry will not tell you

Search for a dumpster in your city and almost everything on the first page is a broker. A broker owns no trucks. It takes your order, subcontracts the local hauler who was going to deliver the container anyway, and keeps the difference — and you have no way of knowing that the company you called is not the company arriving.

The second thing: the "average dumpster cost by state" content that ranks for price searches is a closed loop of aggregators citing each other. Prices vary by region because landfill tipping fees vary by region, and almost nobody publishes that. We do.

[Read the broker, hauler and franchise explainer →](https://dumptergod.shop/companies/)

## Sizes

[10 yd³ ### 10 yard dumpster **Dimensions**: 11–14 ft × 3–4 ft tall **Weight limit**: 1–2 tons **Pickup truck loads**: ~4](https://dumptergod.shop/sizes/10-yard-dumpster/)[15 yd³ ### 15 yard dumpster **Dimensions**: 14–16 ft × 4–4.5 ft tall **Weight limit**: 1.5–3 tons **Pickup truck loads**: ~6](https://dumptergod.shop/sizes/15-yard-dumpster/)[Most rented20 yd³ ### 20 yard dumpster **Dimensions**: 20–22 ft × 4–4.5 ft tall **Weight limit**: 2–4 tons **Pickup truck loads**: ~8](https://dumptergod.shop/sizes/20-yard-dumpster/)[30 yd³ ### 30 yard dumpster **Dimensions**: 20–22 ft × 5.5–6.5 ft tall **Weight limit**: 3–5 tons **Pickup truck loads**: ~12](https://dumptergod.shop/sizes/30-yard-dumpster/)[40 yd³ ### 40 yard dumpster **Dimensions**: 20–22 ft × 7.5–8 ft tall **Weight limit**: 4–6 tons **Pickup truck loads**: ~16](https://dumptergod.shop/sizes/40-yard-dumpster/)

Data table

| Size | Dimensions | Weight limit | Pickup truck loads | 33 gal bags | Footprint |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10 yd³ | 11–14 ft × 7.5–8 ft × 3–4 ft | 1–2 t | ~4 | 40–60 | 83–112 ft² |
| 15 yd³ | 14–16 ft × 7.5–8 ft × 4–4.5 ft | 1.5–3 t | ~6 | 60–90 | 105–128 ft² |
| 20 yd³ | 20–22 ft × 7.5–8 ft × 4–4.5 ft | 2–4 t | ~8 | 85–120 | 150–176 ft² |
| 30 yd³ | 20–22 ft × 7.5–8 ft × 5.5–6.5 ft | 3–5 t | ~12 | 125–185 | 150–176 ft² |
| 40 yd³ | 20–22 ft × 7.5–8 ft × 7.5–8 ft | 4–6 t | ~16 | 165–245 | 150–176 ft² |

Dimensions are ranges because a roll-off is sold by internal volume and manufacturers build to different external sizes. Weight allowances are hauler terms, not properties of the container.

## Start where your question is
- ### What can go in a dumpster Every material, with the states that ban it. "Can I throw a mattress away" has a different correct answer depending on where you live.
- ### What it really costs The six things that move a quote, in the order they move it — starting with the gate rate your hauler pays.
- ### Permits Driveway versus street, and why we publish a department phone number instead of a fee we could not verify.
- ### Calculators Debris weight, total cost with overage, cubic yards, bags to yards, and whether junk removal beats a container.
- ### By project Roof tear-off, kitchen gut, estate cleanout, flooded basement — what size, what it weighs, what you cannot put in it.
- ### Every question 179 sourced answers, grouped by what you are trying to decide.

US average landfill tipping fee per ton. The 2024 figure is a 10% rise — the steepest since 2022 — and it is the largest single input into a container quote. Source: EREF.
Draw the chart

Show the data

| Year | Unweighted $/ton | Ton-weighted $/ton |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2022 | $58.47 | $57.73 |
| 2023 | $56.80 | $57.63 |
| 2024 | $62.28 | — |

## What we will not publish

Accuracy here is not a style preference. A wrong permit claim gets a reader fined, a wrong prohibited-items list gets them a contamination charge, and a wrong weight limit turns a $400 rental into a $900 bill. So where we could not trace a number to the body that sets it, we publish the gap instead of the number.
- Wisconsin landfill environmental fees per ton by waste category — wisconsin.gov is unreachable from the build environment, so the fee schedule could not be read at the source. Publishing the numbers second-hand would put this site in the same citation loop it exists to break.
- EREF 2023 regional tipping fees for the Midwest, Mountains/Plains, South Central and Southeast — Only the Northeast and Pacific regional averages appear in public reporting of the EREF 2023 survey. The remaining four regional figures circulating online trace back to paraphrases of the paid report, not to EREF.
- Per-city dumpster permit fees — Every per-city fee figure we could find traces to a commercial aggregator rather than to the city. A wrong fee is worse than no fee.

[The full editorial policy and sourcing rules →](https://dumptergod.shop/editorial-policy/)

Sourced from- EPA
- EREF
- MassDEP
- CalRecycle
- Wisconsin DNR
- BioCycle

## Sources
- Primary source 2024 Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfill Tipping Fees — Environmental Research & Education Foundation · last reviewed 2026-08-17The full report is a paid publication. The national average and the year-over-year change are reported in the publisher’s own product description and in trade press covering the release.
- Primary source Construction and Demolition Debris: Material-Specific Data — US Environmental Protection Agency · last reviewed 2026-08-17
- Industry / technical 2023 Landfill Tip Fees In The U.S. — BioCycle · last reviewed 2026-08-17Trade-press reporting of the EREF 2023 survey. Used for the figures EREF states publicly; the full regional table is behind the paid report.

## We do not rent dumpsters, broker orders, or sell leads.

That is what makes the rest of this site worth reading. Every regulatory claim names the agency that set the rule, and where a number could not be traced we publish the gap instead.

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