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At Prime Dumpster, we arrange roll-off container delivery from 10 to 40 yards to homes, job sites and businesses across Dearborn, Michigan. The work in this part of Wayne County is mostly renovation of a dense, older housing stock: brick bungalows and two-family homes being gutted and rebuilt in the neighborhoods off Warren Avenue, roof and porch replacement in East Dearborn, basement and kitchen work near Ford Road, and commercial construction and tenant fit-out along Michigan Avenue and Schaefer.
Dearborn has two rules you want to know before you order rather than after. The City treats anything a Type II landfill can take as solid waste, which quietly pulls construction and demolition debris inside its collection rules, and its own weekly commercial service is capped at an amount no renovation will fit into. Below are our price ranges, what those rules mean on your job, what Michigan keeps out of a landfill, and how fast we reach the 48126 ZIP code.
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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 |
Four things move a Dearborn number.
Weight comes first in a city of brick houses. Chimney brick, plaster and lath, old concrete steps and tear-off shingle are all dense, so a container of that material reaches its weight allowance while the walls still look half empty. Tell us the material and we size for weight rather than for volume.
Where the container sits comes second, and it matters more here than in a lot of towns. Dearborn lots are narrow and many houses sit close to the street. A driveway placement keeps the job simple. Anything touching public ground brings a permit, a police sign-off and three inspections into the schedule, which is covered below.
Third is what the City will and will not take itself. Dearborn's own weekly commercial collection stops at two 96-gallon carts, so a renovation is outside it from the first day. That is the gap a container fills.
Fourth is the haul. Loads from this part of Wayne County run south toward the county's public Type II landfill, which is open on weekdays only for disposal. Your account manager confirms the destination and the disposal cost before delivery.
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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Work out the volume first, then the weight, then whether the truck can reach the spot. We run 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard containers.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the dense-material size. Brick, concrete, plaster and soil belong in it, because the weight limit arrives long before the container looks full.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a garage cleanout, a single-room strip or a small roof tear-off, and it is the easiest size to fit on a narrow Dearborn driveway.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the size most households here choose. It takes a full-house cleanout or a renovation running across several rooms.
The 30-Yard Dumpster suits a gut remodel, an addition, a garage teardown or new construction with a lot of framing and drywall waste.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is our largest and it is built for commercial demolition and industrial clearing.
On a tight city lot, two smaller containers sometimes work better than one large one. Your account manager will look at the access with you and pick.
On private property, in your driveway or on the construction pad, Dearborn asks for no placement permit. That is the simple route and it is what we aim for.
Public ground is a different story and the process has a step most people do not expect. The instrument is a Temporary Obstruction of Public Property Permit, and before the Permit Office will even take the application you have to get written approval from the City of Dearborn Traffic Safety Department at 16099 Michigan Avenue, which signs the application itself. The contact there answers on 313-943-2246. You also submit three copies of a scaled site plan showing the buildings on the lot, the barricades you will use and any re-routing of vehicle or foot traffic those barricades make necessary, and the City then requires three separate inspections: one after set-up, one when the obstruction comes out, and a final. The property owner signs an affidavit giving permission, which asks for the owner's state identification or driver number and date of birth.
The fee is $100 for a temporary construction, obstruction, special land use or tent permit on the fee list the City publishes. Permit and Plan Review is at 16901 Michigan, Suite 6, and answers on 313-943-2150, and the City lists the form on its permits page.
On the collection side, Dearborn licenses rather than excludes. Nobody may run a business collecting, transporting, delivering or disposing of solid waste generated in the city without a waste hauler permit, which the city clerk issues on application. That duty also reaches you: no one may dispose of waste generated in the city except through the City's own service or a duly licensed hauler, with a narrow exception for carrying waste from your own property to a transfer station yourself. Your account manager will confirm what we can arrange at your address before anything is booked.
Ordinary renovation and cleanout debris is fine. Three sets of limits apply, and Dearborn's own list is unusually specific.
Michigan's statewide rules come first. The state environmental agency keeps thirteen categories out of a landfill or treats them as special wastes: asbestos, deposit beverage containers, yard clippings, empty drums, hazardous waste, bulk liquids, lead acid batteries, low-level radioactive waste, medical waste, waste containing PCBs, scrap tires, septage and used oil. Yard clippings have to be composted or taken to a composting facility, and only diseased, infested or invasive-species material may be landfilled. Drums must be full of solid waste or crushed. Bulk liquids from a business have to be solidified first. Tires are accepted only if cut in half or shredded, and used oil must be recycled in Michigan. The agency publishes the whole landfill prohibited materials list.
The City's own refusal list is second and it is longer than most. Dearborn treats as unacceptable waste anything from drums, barrels and explosives through gasoline, kerosene, turpentine, waste oil, batteries, solvents, paints, hydraulic oil, acids and sludge to asbestos, medical waste, ashes of any kind, radioactive material, farm machinery, tar, tires, vehicle bodies and, notably for a yard job, tree stumps or tree limbs over three inches in diameter.
Third is the universal set that applies to any container: no liquids of any kind, no propane or pressurized tanks, nothing hazardous. If you are unsure which group an item falls in, 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.
Loads from Dearborn run south to the Riverview Land Preserve at 20863 Grange Road in Riverview, about 13 miles away. It is a licensed Type II landfill owned and operated by the City of Riverview since 1968, and its own description of what it handles includes secure disposal of construction, demolition, commercial and tree wood material, with an on-site weight scale and ticket office. The City of Riverview publishes the details on its own Land Preserve page.
Two things about that site shape a schedule. Disposal runs Monday to Friday only, with the public window from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a slightly wider one for contract customers, and the landfill does not open at all for disposal on Saturday or Sunday. And since August the whole worksite has been a high-visibility site, so anyone stepping out of a vehicle there needs proper high-visibility clothing and will be turned back without it.
For household chemicals there is a separate public route through Wayne County, which runs four household hazardous waste collections a year for county residents and issues vouchers from its office at 3600 Commerce Court, Building E, in Wayne, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 734-326-5708. That is a residents-only service, so a contractor needs a different arrangement, and your account manager can point you to one.
Most Dearborn orders can be scheduled within one to two business days, with delivery arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. Add real time if the container has to sit on public ground, because the police sign-off and the permit are not ours to hurry.
Five things that keep a Dearborn delivery on track:
The weekend matters here. The landfill is closed for disposal on Saturday and Sunday, so a container filled on a Friday evening is realistically a Monday haul. In winter, snow and frozen debris add weight to an open container, which is worth allowing for on a tight load.
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Prime Dumpster serves Dearborn and the Wayne County communities around it, from Dearborn Heights and Inkster on its western side through Garden City, and south through Allen Park, Lincoln Park and Southgate toward the landfill. Detroit wraps around Dearborn's eastern and northern edges and we serve that side too. Every one of those cities licenses waste collection on its own terms, so your account manager checks the exact address before a delivery is confirmed.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will size the container to the weight rather than the look of the pile, tell you whether anything has to touch public ground, and give you a clear price with the disposal run in it.
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.
A container in Dearborn runs $399 to $499 at 10 yards and up to $699 to $899 at 40 yards on a five-day rental. Material weight drives the final figure more than anything else in a city of brick houses, along with the disposal charge at the landfill. Your account manager confirms included tonnage and overage rates.
A container wins for almost any Dearborn project. The county landfill is a 13 mile run each way, open weekdays only, so self-hauling means repeated trips in work hours plus a charge at the scale each time. One container clears the job without leaving your driveway.
Yes. A three-seat couch takes about a fifth of a 10-yard container, leaving room for a mattress, a chair and a stack of boxes. Soft furniture fills space rather than weight, so you run out of room long before the allowance.
Liquids, paint, solvents, fuel, waste oil, batteries, propane, asbestos and medical waste all stay out, and Michigan keeps tires, drums, yard clippings and used oil out of a landfill. Dearborn also refuses tree stumps and limbs over three inches across. Check anything borderline with your account manager.
The 10-yard container starts lowest at $399 to $499, and for brick, plaster or concrete it is also the right size. On a mixed job two containers often total less than one that goes over its weight allowance, because heavy debris and light debris price very differently.
Three days normally costs the same as the standard five-day rental, because we price the project rather than the calendar. What goes in and how much it weighs move the bill far more than the days on site. Ask your account manager for the extension rate if your dates could slip.
Lumber, drywall, plaster, roofing, flooring, cabinets, doors, fixtures, furniture and general household debris are all allowed. Clean concrete and brick are accepted within the weight allowance and are often cheaper kept in their own container. Your account manager will check anything unusual before the container is delivered.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Dearborn, Michigan 48126 |
| Phone: | 586-340-0104 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
| Monday-Saturday | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
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