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At Prime Dumpster, we arrange roll-off container delivery across New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the wider South Coast in five sizes from 10 to 40 yards. The building stock here is old. Whole blocks are nineteenth-century triple-deckers, mill housing and converted industrial space. So the work runs to plaster removal, roof and porch replacement, siding, apartment rehab and mill conversion, plus commercial construction along Route 18.
Massachusetts changes how a load is handled, not just who hauls it. There is no active demolition landfill in the state, so debris is sorted at a processor rather than buried. Several common building materials are barred from disposal outright. What that means for sizing and cost is set out below.
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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 New Bedford quote, and the state sorting rules are the one most people do not expect.
Weight comes first, and the local housing makes it bite. Plaster and lath is dense and heavy. One floor of it can take a 10 or a 15-yard unit to its tonnage allowance while the walls are barely covered. Brick, fieldstone and layered old roofing do the same. Lumber, cabinets, carpet and clutter are light for their volume, so a 20 or a 30 is the better buy on a full rehab.
Sorting comes second, and in Massachusetts it is a legal requirement rather than a preference. Asphalt pavement, brick and concrete, clean gypsum wallboard, metals and recyclable cardboard are all barred from disposal, with no exception for sending them through a transfer station on the way. The duty falls on whoever transports the material as well as on whoever generated it. A load that arrives sorted costs less to handle than one that has to be picked apart, so separate containers for clean masonry, clean wood and general debris is the normal arrangement here, not an upgrade.
Access comes third. The dense street grid, narrow drives and on-street parking often decide which unit fits at all. On a triple-decker with no off-street parking, placement is the first question, and your account manager works through it before quoting.
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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Material decides first, access a close second. On the older streets the answer is often a smaller unit swapped twice rather than one large one.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the dense-material unit and the one that fits a narrow New Bedford driveway. Plaster, brick, fieldstone, concrete and soil belong in it.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a garage clearing, a single bathroom, or one floor of plaster, and it is often the largest unit a triple-decker lot will take.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the common choice for a kitchen and bathroom together, a full apartment clearing, or a mid-size roof, and it handles furniture comfortably.
The 30-Yard Dumpster suits a whole-building rehabilitation or a commercial strip-out, where the volume is high and the debris mostly light for its bulk.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is built for mill conversion, demolition and large construction packages, and it needs a yard or a cleared site rather than a city street.
Tell your account manager what the material is and where the unit can sit, including driveway width and any overhead wires, and they will size it to whichever limit you reach first.
On private property, the answer in Massachusetts depends on the local Board of Health rather than on a statewide rule, and New Bedford is a city where that distinction matters. A container on your own driveway or inside a fenced site is not covered by any permit in the City's ordinances. Across the City's health, streets, licensing and zoning chapters there is no temporary container permit of any kind. The zoning chapter carries a screening standard, but it governs the permanent trash point of a new development, not a job-site container.
What Massachusetts does have is a Board of Health permit regime that varies from one community to the next, and New Bedford has a Board of Health rather than a health department by its own deliberate choice. The City's ordinances set up a board of three members, one of whom must be a doctor of medicine and none of whom may sit on the city council, appointed by the mayor with council confirmation for three-year terms. The council went as far as rescinding its acceptance of the state law that would have replaced the board with a department.
So the Board of Health is the office to ask about a container on private ground in New Bedford, and it is the right office even though the City's ordinances are silent. Massachusetts boards of health commonly publish dumpster rules that sit outside the code altogether, and they differ sharply between neighboring communities on screening, setbacks, permit terms and whether construction debris is even within scope. We settle that for your address and your material before a container is scheduled rather than assuming a neighboring town's answer applies.
The street is governed by the general rules instead. New Bedford's ordinances carry a broad obstruction and permit regime for its public ways, and they bar depositing litter on any street, sidewalk or public place except in authorized receptacles. The City's own definition of litter includes construction material by name. A driveway or private-lot placement avoids all of that, which is why it is our first choice. City Hall is at 133 William Street, and your account manager will confirm the current Board of Health contact and the placement position for you.
This is where Massachusetts is genuinely different, and it is worth reading before you start filling anything.
Several ordinary building materials are barred from disposal outright, not just from a landfill. The list covers asphalt pavement, brick and concrete, clean gypsum wallboard, metals, and recyclable cardboard. The ban reaches transfer for disposal too, and it binds the transporter as well as the generator. A twenty percent by volume action level applies, so a load is judged on how much it holds rather than on whether any is present.
Two materials carry a narrower ban that works in your favor. Treated and untreated wood and wood waste are banned from landfills only, and whole tires are banned from landfills only with shredded tires acceptable. Since there is no active demolition landfill in Massachusetts, wood from your job is heading to a processor rather than a landfill in any case.
The usual exclusions apply as everywhere: liquids, paint, solvents, thinners, fuel, motor oil, antifreeze, pool chemicals and pesticides stay out, along with appliances holding refrigerant, fluorescent tubes, batteries, televisions and computer equipment.
Asbestos deserves particular care in New Bedford because of the age of the housing. Pipe and boiler lagging, floor tile adhesive, shingle siding and textured finishes are all realistic places to find it in pre-war stock, and it needs a licensed abatement contractor and its own disposal route rather than a loading decision. Test before demolition, not during it.
If an item sits on the edge of any of those lists, raise it with your account manager before it goes in. The sorting rules here make that call worth more than it is in most states.
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.
Massachusetts handles building debris differently from almost anywhere else. There is no active demolition landfill left in the state. The only disposal capacity is five combustion plants, all company-run, and the state's sixteen large debris processors are private too.
The practical consequence for your job is that a New Bedford container goes to a processor to be sorted rather than to a hole in the ground. Wood, metal, cardboard, gypsum and clean masonry each come out of the stream and go somewhere different, which is exactly why the state bars so many of those materials from disposal in the first place.
That also explains why a sorted load is cheaper here than a mixed one. When the material arrives already separated, the processor does less work, and when it arrives mixed, somebody has to do that work and it lands on the invoice. On a plaster-and-lath rehabilitation with a metal strip-out and a roof tear-off, three containers is often cheaper in total than two.
Because every processing and combustion facility serving this part of Massachusetts is company-run rather than publicly operated, no receiving facility is named by address here. Your account manager confirms which processor your load is going to, what it will accept, and the rate that applies, before the container is delivered. That is a firm answer for your job rather than a general one.
One more thing. The transporter shares the duty on banned materials, so how a container is loaded matters to us as well as to you. We would rather settle it at the quote.
Most New Bedford orders can be scheduled inside one to two business days, with the container arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. Access is the usual limiting factor rather than the haul.
Five things that keep a New Bedford delivery on schedule:
One timing note worth knowing: where a Board of Health question arises, it is answered during the booking rather than on the day of delivery. Give your account manager the address and the material in the same call and the whole thing moves in one step.
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Prime Dumpster serves the whole of New Bedford, from the historic waterfront and the North and South Ends through the West End and out to the industrial park and the airport, along with the neighboring South Coast communities. We also cover projects out toward Dartmouth, Fairhaven and Acushnet. Delivery, swaps and the run to the processor are arranged around your crew's working days.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will plan the sort that state rules require, settle the Board of Health and placement questions for your address, size the container to the material, and quote it on the call.
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 New Bedford 10-yard is $399 to $499 and a 40-yard $699 to $899 over the standard five-day period. Weight moves the final figure most, plaster being the local heavyweight, and how well the load is sorted affects the processing cost. Your account manager prices the New Bedford job on the call.
Renting wins here more clearly than in most places. Massachusetts has no demolition landfill, so there is nowhere convenient to self-haul building debris to, and the banned-material rules apply to whoever transports it. A container is loaded once and taken to a processor that is set up for it.
Yes. Allow roughly a fifth of a 10-yard unit for a three-seat couch, and a mattress, a dresser and boxes still go round it. Clearing a triple-decker apartment fills the space long before it fills the tonnage.
Asphalt pavement, brick and concrete, clean gypsum wallboard, metals and recyclable cardboard are barred from disposal under state rules and must be separated. Liquids, paint, solvents, fuel, antifreeze, pool chemicals, pesticides, refrigerant appliances, batteries, electronics and asbestos material all stay out as well.
The 10-yard at $399 to $499 is the lowest price, and on a narrow South Coast driveway it may be the only unit that fits. The lowest price is only the best price when the material suits the unit. Loaded with plaster, brick or fieldstone it reaches the weight allowance very quickly.
Three days normally costs the same as five, because the price is built around the haul and the tonnage rather than the nights the unit spends on your driveway. Tonnage and how well the load is separated are what change the total. Your account manager sets out the included tonnage and the overage rate before the unit is booked.
Lumber, plaster and lath, shingles, flooring, cabinets, doors, porch material, siding, furniture and general cleanout debris are all fine. Clean masonry, metal and cardboard must travel separately under state rules rather than in the mixed load. Run anything unusual past your account manager before it is loaded.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740 |
| Phone: | 351-240-0400 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
| Monday-Saturday | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
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