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At Prime Dumpster, we supply roll-off dumpsters across Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in sizes from 10 to 40 yards. Work here splits three ways: rental turnovers and student housing refreshes on a tight summer clock, additions and whole-house renovations in the established neighborhoods, and institutional and commercial construction that keeps a steady flow of mixed debris moving through Orange County.
What you pay turns on the size you choose, the weight you load, how long the container stays, and what the county charges at the scale. Below are our ranges, the sorting rule that can double your disposal cost here, the placement position in Chapel Hill, and exactly where a Chapel Hill load is weighed in.
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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 |
Sorting is the biggest single lever on a Chapel Hill bill, and it is a rule rather than a preference.
Orange County requires cardboard, clean unpainted wood and scrap metal to be recycled, and it enforces that at the scale. A construction load carrying more than a third of a cubic yard of those materials is charged double the tip fee, and the county can add a civil penalty on top. Separate them out and the same county charges you nothing for the cardboard and the metal.
Weight comes next. Shingles, drywall, brick and block from a Chapel Hill remodel reach the weight allowance while the container still looks half empty, so dense work often goes into a smaller size emptied twice.
Volume sets the base number. Give your account manager the room count, the roof area or the slab footage and the sizing follows.
County paperwork is the quiet fourth. A construction or demolition project in Orange County needs a waste management plan, and the recycling permit is reviewed and charged alongside the building permit, so what happens to your debris is part of your project file from the start.
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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Choose on volume, confirm against weight, then look at the approach. Prime Dumpster carries five sizes in Chapel Hill.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the heavy-material size. Brick, block, cement, tile and clean soil belong in it, and on the wooded lots and steeper driveways around town it is often the only size with a sensible approach.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a cleared garage, one gutted bathroom, or carpet and padding pulled out of a two-bedroom unit.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the common answer for a multi-room remodel or a summer rental turnover. Cabinets, drywall, flooring and fixtures all travel in one container.
The 30-Yard Dumpster takes a whole-house renovation, an addition, or commercial work producing bulky mixed debris across several weeks.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is the largest container placed in Chapel Hill, built for demolition and high-volume construction, and it needs the most ground and the straightest run in.
Walk the job through with your account manager and they will name the size and flag the sorting that saves you money at the scale.
A container on private property, whether a driveway, a yard or a job site, is the normal and straightforward route in Chapel Hill. No Town permit is attached to it.
The street is a different answer, and it is a firm one. The Town makes it unlawful to place, deposit or leave trash, refuse, litter, garbage or waste material of any kind on the right-of-way of any public street, sidewalk, highway or alley, and the only two things it authorizes there are the weekly residential cart and yard waste set out for collection. The Town's streets and sidewalks rules cover construction work in the roadway, driveways and sidewalk openings, and none of them creates a container permit. So the realistic answer is that there is no published route for a dumpster in a Chapel Hill right-of-way. An unpublished administrative route may exist for an unusual site, and your account manager can chase that with the Town before you commit to a date, but nobody should plan on a curb drop.
Two Town rules land on the customer rather than on us, and both are worth knowing. Anyone who has leased a container for use on private property counts as its owner for the Town's purposes, which means securing the container so access to it stays under control, and labelling it to show that cardboard may not be put in it. Cardboard is barred from public and private containers alike here, which fits neatly with the county's own recycling requirement.
The Town also makes clear that material from land clearing, so trees, logs, stumps, shrubbery and underbrush, is not collected by the Town and is the responsibility of the contractor or builder, falling back on the property owner if the contractor leaves it. That is exactly the gap a roll-off fills. Your account manager will confirm which pieces of this apply at your address before delivery.
Framing, drywall, roofing, flooring, carpet, cabinets, doors, siding, brick and block are all normal Chapel Hill loads. Two separate sets of limits apply.
The first is state law. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality keeps used oil, yard trash, large appliances, antifreeze, aluminum cans, whole scrap tires, lead-acid batteries, oil filters, recyclable rigid plastic containers, oyster shells, discarded computer equipment and televisions out of landfills statewide. One line matters more here than almost anywhere: fluorescent lights and mercury thermostats are barred from unlined landfills, and in North Carolina every construction and demolition landfill counts as unlined. Chapel Hill debris goes to a construction and demolition landfill, so old tubes and thermostats have to come out first.
The second is the county's own refusal list at the gate. The Orange County Landfill takes no household trash, no furniture, no mattresses and no building cleanouts, refuses asbestos shingles, and will not take metal plumbing fixtures or metal pipe in a construction load, because those belong in the scrap metal stream.
Hazardous waste, liquids, paint, solvents, fuel and asbestos stay out of any standard container. If you are unsure about an item, ask your account manager before it goes in.
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.
Chapel Hill construction debris is weighed in at the Orange County Landfill at 1514 Eubanks Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27516, which the county owns and operates. It is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the gates closing at 3:45 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon with the gates closing at 11:45 a.m. The Solid Waste Administration Office nearby takes questions on 919-968-2788.
Two operating facts shape your schedule. Every load must be tarped on the way in, and the tarp comes off before the scale. Hydraulic dump vehicles have to be inside the gate fifteen minutes before closing and everyone else thirty minutes before, so a late-afternoon pickup on a full container is a next-day haul rather than a same-day one.
The fee structure is where sorting pays. Construction and demolition waste is charged at $45 per ton with a one-ton minimum, clean wood waste at $30 per ton, and cardboard, scrap metal and large appliances at no charge at all. Put the cardboard and the metal in the mixed container instead and more than a third of a cubic yard of it doubles the tip fee on the whole load.
One thing Chapel Hill customers often assume wrongly: the county's own waste and recycling centres are not an option for a job. They are open to Orange County households only, capped at sixty cubic feet of construction debris per visit, and the county states plainly that a contractor working for a household may not use them. Your account manager confirms the destination and the sorting plan before your container is collected.
1514 Eubanks Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27516
County owned and operated. Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to noon, gates close earlier. No household trash.
Chapel Hill orders are usually scheduled within one to two business days, with delivery arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. A few days of notice helps if the recycling permit on your building permit is still moving.
Five habits that keep a Chapel Hill job on track:
Remember the Saturday cut-off too. The landfill gates shut at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday and the site is closed Sunday, so a container filled late in the weekend is usually emptied the following week.
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Prime Dumpster covers all of Chapel Hill, from the blocks nearest campus out to the newer subdivisions on the east side and the corridor along Eubanks Road, and the same routes carry us through Carrboro, Hillsborough and the rest of Orange County. Give us the Chapel Hill address and the scope and we will set delivery, pickup and disposal around your permit dates.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will size the container, lay out the sorting the county expects, and give you a clear 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.
Chapel Hill 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 weight of the load and the county scale charge move the final figure, and a mixed load that should have been sorted can double the disposal side. Your account manager confirms tonnage and overage rates at booking.
For anything past a couple of loads, the container is cheaper here. The county's residential drop-off sites cap you at sixty cubic feet of construction debris and shut out contractors outright, so a real project means repeated trips to the landfill scale, with fuel and a day of your time on top.
Yes. A three-seat couch uses roughly a fifth of a 10-yard container, leaving space for a bed frame, a dresser and a dozen cartons. Note that the county landfill refuses furniture and mattresses in a construction load, so tell your account manager if soft goods are going in.
No hazardous waste, liquids, paint, solvents, fuel or asbestos. North Carolina also bars used oil, yard trash, appliances, tires, batteries, electronics and televisions from landfills, and fluorescent tubes and mercury thermostats cannot go to a construction and demolition landfill at all.
The 10-yard container starts lowest, at $399 to $499. Whether it is actually cheapest depends on the load. Chapel Hill demolition debris full of brick and block reaches the weight allowance half full, and sorting the cardboard, clean wood and metal out separately usually saves more than the size choice does.
Three days normally prices like five in Chapel Hill, because the delivery, the haul and the county tip charge are the real cost. Weight and sorting are the variables. Ask your account manager what tonnage is included and what each extra ton costs before the container arrives.
Wood, drywall, shingles, flooring, carpet, cabinets, doors, siding, brick, block, PVC pipe and uncontaminated soil are all accepted from a Chapel Hill job. Cardboard, clean wood and scrap metal are allowed too, but the county wants them separated for recycling. Check anything unusual with your account manager first.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 |
| Phone: | 984-250-9450 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
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