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At Prime Dumpster, we arrange roll-off dumpster delivery across Burlington, Iowa, in sizes from 10 to 40 yards. Burlington runs up the bluffs from the Mississippi and much of its housing stock is pre-war, so the regular work is interior gut jobs and porch rebuilds on the hill streets, roof replacement across the older neighborhoods, and commercial construction and demolition along the Roosevelt Avenue and Agency Street corridors.
What you pay depends on the size, the weight of what goes in, how long you hold it and the per-ton charge at the landfill. Below are our ranges, who licenses collection here and where loads must go, what cannot ride in a container, and realistic delivery timing.
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The prices below reflect average ranges for a standard five-day rental period. Your account manager will confirm tonnage, overage rates, and other project specifics during your free, custom quote.
| Size | Average Price Range | Approximate Dimensions | Common Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-Yard Dumpster | $399–$499 | 12' L × 8' W × 3.5' H | Concrete, brick, and heavy debris; small cleanouts; single-room remodels |
| 15-Yard Dumpster | $449–$569 | 16' L × 7.5' W × 4–5' H | Garage cleanouts, kitchen and bathroom remodels, small roof tear-offs |
| 20-Yard Dumpster | $499–$649 | 22' L × 7.5' W × 4.5' H | Whole-home cleanouts, multi-room renovations, flooring removal, roofing |
| 30-Yard Dumpster | $599–$799 | 22' L × 8' W × 6' H | Major renovations, new residential construction, large commercial projects |
| 40-Yard Dumpster | $699–$899 | 22–24' L × 8' W × 8' H | Commercial demolition, industrial cleanouts, large-scale construction |
Burlington is one of the easier cities to price honestly, because the destination is fixed and the rates are published.
Material type is the biggest lever, and here you can see exactly why. Mixed garbage goes over the scale at $55.00 a ton with a $10.00 minimum, while wood pallets are $28.00, brush is $26.00 and scrap metal is $20.00 a ton. Yard waste with no wood in it is taken at no charge. A load that has been kept clean is cheaper to empty than the same volume thrown together.
Weight follows from that. Burlington's older houses give up plaster, lath, brick and cast iron in quantity, and a dense load reaches its weight allowance while the container still looks half empty, so heavy work often goes into a smaller container emptied twice.
Volume sets the base figure, and ordering a size short costs a whole extra trip. Give your account manager the rooms, the roof squares or the slab area and the sizing is settled.
The hill is the fourth factor, and it is particular to this city. Narrow pre-war streets, alley access and steep driveways all decide which size can actually be set down and collected.
Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 2 tons (4,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 50-70 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 3 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 3 tons (6,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 80-100 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 4.5 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 3 tons (6,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 110-130 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 6 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 4 tons (8,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 170-190 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 9 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 5 tons (10,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 230-250 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 12 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Pick on volume, confirm on weight, then look hard at the access. Prime Dumpster carries five sizes in Burlington.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the dense-material size for the Burlington hill streets. Plaster, brick, concrete, soil and roof tile belong in it, and on the tighter streets above downtown it is often the only container that will fit and still be reachable.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a cleared garage, a single gutted bathroom, or flooring stripped from a two-bedroom house.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the common choice for a gut job touching several rooms or a full roof tear-off. Framing, lath, cabinets, drywall and fixtures all travel together.
The 30-Yard Dumpster handles a whole-house renovation, an addition, or a commercial strip-out producing bulky debris over several weeks.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is the largest container delivered in Burlington, meant for demolition and high-volume construction, and it needs the longest clear run and the firmest ground.
Describe the job and the street to your account manager and they will name the size that can actually be delivered.
Private property is simple. A container on your own driveway, alley apron or fenced site needs no permit from the City, and that is where the great majority of Burlington containers sit.
The City right-of-way is a narrower question than people expect, and the boundary is closer to the house than most assume. The City's own guidance is that a safe assumption is that the right-of-way begins one foot on the private property side of the public sidewalk. A right-of-way permit is required any time work is done in that strip by an owner, a utility or a contractor who is not working for the City, and the examples the City gives are sidewalk and driveway construction, excavations for sewer repairs and utility installation. Applications go to the City Engineer's office and should be submitted at least forty-eight hours before work starts.
Two things follow that are worth knowing before you plan a drop at the curb. The permit's published scope does not name containers, so whether a container counts as work in the right-of-way is a question for the City Engineer rather than a line on a form. And the City says work in the right-of-way is to be completed by the abutting property owner or by a bonded contractor from its own list, which is a real gate on who may do it. The practical answer in Burlington is to keep the container on private ground and let your account manager raise anything else with the Engineer first.
On the collection side, Burlington works differently from most cities its size and the difference matters. The City does not issue the collection permit itself. A commercial hauler moving solid waste that originates in Burlington has to hold an annual permit from the Des Moines County Regional Solid Waste Commission, and the City's own definition of solid waste follows the state act with no carve-out for construction and demolition debris, so a project container sits inside that regime rather than outside it. The City's crews collect only from houses and buildings of up to four units; owners of commercial, industrial and institutional premises are required to arrange their own collection. Your account manager handles the permit side so none of it lands on you.
Framing, lath and plaster, drywall, flooring, shingles, siding, cabinets, doors, fixtures, furniture and general cleanout debris are all ordinary Burlington loads. The exclusions come from the state and from the landfill gate.
Iowa keeps four categories out of land disposal: yard waste, baled solid waste, lead-acid batteries and waste tires, with whole tires barred from a sanitary landfill unless they are cut down to eighteen inches or less. The City adds its own rule that no hazardous waste may be put in a container or offered for collection at all, and its definition of hazardous waste is broad: motor oil and oil filters, fuel additives, degreasers, waxes and polishes, solvents, paints other than latex, lacquer, thinners, caustic cleaners, petroleum-based stain removers and petroleum-based fertilizers.
Three items have specific destinations in this county and a container is not one of them. Appliances are accepted only at the Commission's recycling site on West Burlington Avenue, by appointment. Televisions and other screened electronics go only to the hazardous chemical center on Washington Road, also by appointment. Tires are priced on the day and have to be asked about.
Asbestos is handled as its own class at the landfill and priced accordingly, friable far above non-friable, so it never travels in a general container. Ask your account manager about anything you are unsure of, because the destination here is fixed and a refused item has nowhere else to go.
If the item you want to dispose of isn’t on this list, give us a call for more guidance or check out our guide of what you can throw in a dumpster.
*Approved items may vary by location. Always check your local laws and regulations to avoid any fines or additional fees.
Burlington is one of the clearest cities we write on where waste ends up, because the City designates it. The sanitary disposal facilities run by the Des Moines County Regional Solid Waste Commission are the official public disposal project for waste produced in Burlington, and the ordinance makes it unlawful for a collector to take Burlington waste anywhere else.
That facility is the DMC Regional Landfill at 13758 Washington Road, West Burlington, Iowa 52655, on 319-753-8722. It is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday until noon, with no admittance in the final fifteen minutes before closing, and it takes in around two hundred tons a day from its member communities. Transactions are cash, check or a landfill charge account, which is worth setting up in advance on a long job.
Two operating rules shape every load. Every load entering and leaving has to be tarped or secured, and an unsecured load picks up a $10.00 charge that rises in $10.00 steps for each repeat. And the rate you pay turns on what is in the container, with clean untreated and unpainted lumber, pallets and brush all taken at reduced rates against mixed garbage. The Commission also runs a paved public drop-off area for residents and gives away finished compost and woodchip mulch when it has them.
There is one more option on a demolition job that is easy to miss. Burlington's open dumping rule leaves a gap for dirt, stone, brick and similar inorganic material used as fill away from the disposal site, provided a fill permit comes from the Public Works Director first. On the right job a clean hard load becomes fill rather than tonnage, and your account manager can tell you when that is worth pursuing.
13758 Washington Road, West Burlington, IA 52655
Des Moines County Regional Solid Waste Commission site. Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday to noon, no entry in the last 15 minutes.
Burlington orders are usually scheduled inside one to two business days, with delivery arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. The landfill's hours shape collection more than paperwork does, since it shuts at four on weekdays and at noon on Saturday.
Five habits that keep a Burlington drop on schedule:
The landfill closes at noon on Saturday and is shut Sunday, so a container loaded out on a Saturday afternoon will not be emptied until Monday.
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Prime Dumpster covers all of Burlington, from the streets above downtown and the Snake Alley neighborhood out along Agency Street and Roosevelt Avenue to the West Burlington edge, and we work the surrounding Des Moines County communities on the same routes. Burlington sits in the far southeast corner of our Iowa coverage, so the nearest page we publish is a long way up the river, and we are happy to say so rather than pad the list. Give us the Burlington address and the scope and we will time delivery, pickup and disposal around the landfill hours.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will choose the container, sort out the permit side with the county, and give you a firm number while you are on the phone.
Your Prime Dumpster account manager handles the details, from tonnage and overage rates to permit contacts and delivery timing, so you can focus on the work.
Burlington rentals run from $399 to $499 for a 10-yard container up to $699 to $899 for a 40-yard container over five days. The county landfill charges by the ton and by material, so what you load moves the final figure. Your account manager confirms the included tonnage and the overage rate against the Des Moines County rates at booking.
Beyond a couple of truckloads in Des Moines County, the container is cheaper. Self-hauling to Washington Road means a charge every trip, a mandatory tarp on each load, the fuel, and loading everything twice, and the gate shuts at four. One container absorbs all of it.
Yes. A three-seat couch takes about a fifth of a 10-yard container, which leaves space for a bed frame, a dresser and a dozen cartons. Soft furniture uses volume quickly and barely registers against the weight allowance.
Iowa bars yard waste, baled waste, lead-acid batteries and whole tires from land disposal. The City also bars all hazardous waste from any container, which covers motor oil, solvents, lacquer, thinners, non-latex paints, degreasers and caustic cleaners. Appliances and screened electronics go to separate sites by appointment.
The 10-yard container starts lowest at $399 to $499 and fits the hill streets best. Because the landfill prices by material, a sorted clean load in a smaller container sometimes costs less overall than one mixed container of twice the volume.
Three days in Burlington normally prices like five, because the delivery, the haul and the per-ton charge are the cost. Weight and material are the variables. Ask your Burlington account manager what tonnage is included and the rate for each additional ton.
Wood, lath and plaster, drywall, flooring, shingles, siding, cabinets, doors, furniture, cardboard and general cleanout material are all fine in Burlington. Clean concrete, brick and asphalt are accepted and are often cheaper separated out. Check anything unusual with your Burlington account manager first.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Burlington, Iowa 52601 |
| Phone: | 515-304-5594 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
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