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At Prime Dumpster, we provide roll-off dumpster rentals across Martinez, California, and the northern Contra Costa waterfront in sizes from 10 to 40 yards. This is the county seat, a hillside town of narrow Victorian-era streets above a working industrial shoreline, so the jobs here run to seismic and foundation work, kitchen and bath renovations in century houses, hillside landscaping, and construction on the newer ground south of Highway 4.
Four things set your price: the size you take, how heavy the load is, how long you keep it, and the disposal charge at whichever gate takes the material. Below you will find our ranges, the City permit that applies to the public way, and a straight explanation of how collection is arranged in Martinez, because it affects how a container gets arranged here more than in most cities.
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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 |
Three things move a Martinez, California quote, and the first is geography.
Access on the hill streets. Above the downtown grid the streets are steep, narrow and often without a shoulder, and a lot of the driveways are short and pitched. The container that suits the debris is sometimes not the container that can be set down safely, and that is better settled before delivery than discovered by a driver on a slope.
Weight on foundation and hardscape work. Seismic retrofits, retaining walls and old patios produce concrete, brick and soil, and all three are priced by weight at the gate. A smaller container kept to one dense material almost always costs less than a larger one carrying a mix.
How collection is arranged. Martinez runs residential and commercial collection through a franchise rather than an open market, and that shapes what we can arrange and how. It is not a reason to avoid the question, and your account manager raises it with you up front rather than after a deposit.
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 for the material, then test it against the street. Prime Dumpster carries five sizes across the East Bay.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the one for concrete, brick, tile or soil, and its short body is the realistic choice on a narrow hill street or a pitched driveway.
The 15-Yard Dumpster handles a garage clearing, a bathroom strip-out or a deck removal where the debris is mixed but the volume is contained.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the usual pick for a whole-house clearing or a remodel across several rooms, and it needs a flatter, wider spot than the 10.
The 30-Yard Dumpster suits a gut renovation or new construction producing framing, roofing and finish material together, and generally wants a job site rather than a driveway here.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is the largest container we run, suited to commercial demolition and high-volume light debris on the flatter industrial ground near the shoreline.
Send your account manager the project description plus the street and the slope, and they will tell you what will genuinely fit.
On private property, including your own driveway or a fenced job site, the Martinez municipal code sets out no container permit.
The public way is different and the City names the route. Occupying any part of the street or sidewalk needs an Encroachment Permit from Engineering, which is published alongside the City's site development, grading and transportation permits. The City of Martinez is at 525 Henrietta Street and answers on 925-372-3500.
The code also carries a general prohibition worth knowing. It is unlawful to deposit solid waste, or to let an accumulation of it stay, in or upon any public right-of-way or on any premises at all except in an approved disposal area, an approved collection station, or an authorised container. Read plainly, that makes a properly authorised container the compliant answer rather than the problem.
Then there is the part of the rules that is about us rather than you, and we would rather be direct. Martinez collects and transports solid waste through a City franchise, and the code's own definition of solid waste adopts the state definition, which names demolition and construction waste expressly. The exemptions are narrow: hauling from your own home when it is not business waste and you are not in the hauling trade, or moving material that came from outside the city. There is no separate roll-off class to apply for. What that means in practice is that your account manager checks how the City's arrangement applies to your address and your project, and tells you the answer before anything is booked.
Two further City rules reach the customer directly. Every occupied property must subscribe to the City's collection service within seven days of occupancy, so a container does not replace that bill. And collection activity is confined to six days a week, excluding Sundays, between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. in residential and commercial districts, which shapes delivery and pickup windows.
A Martinez container takes ordinary building and household debris. The limits come from California's rules and from the City's own prohibitions.
Hazardous waste, liquids, paint, solvents, fuel and asbestos stay out of every standard container, and the Martinez code says so directly: nothing hazardous, explosive or highly flammable may go into a solid waste container. The same section makes it an offence to put general waste into a container marked for recyclables, which matters if a site has more than one box.
California handles household hazardous material, electronics, batteries, paint and used oil through separate routes rather than the trash, so those need to come out before the container is filled. The City also keeps the power to add materials to the prohibited list by resolution, in order to hit state diversion targets, so the list is not frozen.
There is an upside in Martinez worth planning around. The City's own definition of recyclable material expressly includes brick, stone, wood, soil, construction and demolition debris, and asphalt or concrete in reusable condition. That does not change who may collect it, but it does mean clean, separated material has a genuine recovery route rather than a landfill gate, and separated loads usually price better. Ask your account manager which materials are worth keeping apart on your job.
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.
Martinez has a landfill inside its own city limits, which is unusual, and the City also keeps the right to say where material goes.
The nearest receiving site is Acme Landfill on Waterbird Way in Martinez, which California's own facility register lists as active and permitted under a private operator. Because it is privately operated we name it by location and give no card for it, and the same goes for the other active landfill in the county, which is run by a company that also rents containers and so is not named here at all. The county's Health Services Environmental Health Division is the local enforcement agency for both.
Two rules sit on top of that. The City may designate the disposal area for waste collected in Martinez, and it may direct a collector to use a particular transfer or processing station. And title changes hands: once material is removed from the premises where it was produced, the code makes it the property of the City or, for recyclables placed in a recycling container, of the collector who owns that container. That is worth knowing if you expected to pull something back out of the container after it was collected.
Contra Costa County publishes no municipally operated site that takes a container load, so we do not send Martinez customers to a public gate and we do not name one. Your account manager confirms the receiving site, the gate requirements and any separation worth doing before delivery.
Most Martinez rentals can be scheduled within one to two business days, with delivery arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. Allow longer where an Encroachment Permit is needed for the street, and allow a call first if the address is commercial, so the City's arrangement can be checked.
Five things that make a Martinez delivery go well:
Winter is the wet season rather than the snow season here, and a soaked hillside driveway or an unpaved pad can rut badly under a loaded container. Plywood or a gravel pad under the rails saves the surface and keeps the pickup on schedule.
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Prime Dumpster serves the whole of Martinez, from the downtown and the Victorian streets on the hill above it out through the Alhambra Valley and Vine Hill areas to the industrial shoreline and the newer neighborhoods south of Highway 4, and we work across northern Contra Costa on the same schedule.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will size the container to the material and the street, check whether your drop spot needs an Encroachment Permit, and be straight with you about how the City's collection arrangement applies.
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.
Our ranges run from $399 to $499 for a 10-yard up to $699 to $899 for a 40-yard across a five-day period. Weight and the gate charge at the receiving site move the final number most, and dense foundation material moves it fastest. Your account manager settles the Martinez allowance and the overage rate as the order goes in.
For a Martinez remodel or foundation job, renting is the cheaper route for almost everyone. Self-hauling concrete or brick up and down the hill streets in a pickup means many trips, a gate fee each time, and a vehicle not built for the weight. A single Martinez container does it in one haul.
Yes. A three-seat couch takes about a fifth of the 10-yard, leaving a Martinez bedroom clearance room for a mattress and a dresser. Upholstery from a Martinez clearance runs you out of room long before tonnage.
Hazardous waste, liquids, paint, solvents, fuel and asbestos all stay out, and the Martinez code bars anything hazardous, explosive or highly flammable from a container by name. Electronics, batteries and used oil go through California's separate routes. Tires need their own handling.
The 10-yard container starts lowest at $399 to $499, and on the narrow hill streets it is often the only size that can be placed safely. It is also the right answer for concrete and soil, where a larger container reaches its weight allowance long before it looks full.
A three-day rental usually costs the same as a five-day one, because the price is built around the haul rather than the calendar. On a Martinez hillside job the contents matter far more than the days. Ask your account manager for the Martinez allowance and the overage rate before you load.
Ordinary construction and household debris is accepted: lumber, drywall, roofing, flooring, cabinets, carpet, furniture, cardboard and general cleanout material. Clean concrete, brick and asphalt are accepted as well and often have a recovery route here rather than a landfill. Check anything unusual first.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Martinez, California 94553 |
| Phone: | 415-426-1126 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
| Monday-Saturday | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
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