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At Prime Dumpster, we arrange delivery of roll-off containers across Southfield, Michigan, in sizes from 10 to 40 yards, for office-park refits, apartment turnovers along Northwestern Highway, and the steady run of 1950s and 1960s home renovations in the neighborhoods off Twelve Mile and Evergreen. Construction and demolition loads are the bulk of what moves through this market, and Southfield writes its own rules about where a container may sit.
What you pay turns on container size, what you load, how long you keep it, and the disposal charges that apply to the load. The section below sets out the price bands, the one local approval that catches almost every placement in the city, and the materials that will not be accepted.
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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 Southfield quote more than anything else.
Container size sets the floor. Bigger containers cost more, but guessing small is the expensive mistake, because a second haul costs more than the next size up would have.
Weight sets the ceiling. Plaster, brick, shingles and old concrete from a Southfield teardown reach a weight allowance long before they fill the walls of a container. Your account manager will tell you what tonnage is included before you commit.
Placement affects the job, not the price. Southfield asks for the position of every container to be approved before it is dropped, which is a scheduling matter rather than a fee.
Material mix is the last variable. A clean load of concrete or clean fill is handled differently from a mixed renovation load, and splitting the two across separate containers is often cheaper than one mixed haul.
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 the size from the debris, not the room count. Here is how the five containers are normally used on Southfield jobs.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is where heavy Southfield debris belongs. Concrete, brick, dirt and asphalt belong here, because dense debris hits its weight limit with the container barely half full. It also suits a single bathroom strip-out.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a garage clearing, a kitchen remodel, or a small roof tear-off on a ranch house. It carries noticeably more than a 10-yard without the cost of stepping up again.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the workhorse for Southfield homes. Whole-house cleanouts, a basement finish, flooring across several rooms, and most reroofing jobs land in this size.
The 30-Yard Dumpster fits a major renovation, a new build, or an office suite stripped back to the shell. Pick it when the volume is high and the material is mixed.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is for commercial demolition and large industrial clearances, where the limiting factor is space to put the debris rather than weight.
A container on private property, such as a driveway or a job-site lot, needs no street permit in Southfield. That is where most residential containers go.
Southfield then adds something most Michigan cities do not. The city code says no dumpster may be placed on any property in the city until its location has been approved by the city planner or the city traffic engineer, who look at access for service vehicles and the effect on adjoining properties. The code defines a dumpster as any container over one cubic yard, so every size we rent is inside that rule, and the approval reaches private ground as well as public. There is no published form or fee attached to it, so the practical step is a call to the city before the delivery date is fixed.
Two further points are worth knowing. A container placed in a single-family residential zone needs a special use approval from the city council or the zoning board of appeals, which is a slower route than a phone call. And the city's screening rule, which normally demands a six-foot obscuring wall on three sides, expressly does not apply to a dumpster used temporarily during the construction of a building, provided it is removed or moved to a screened spot before the final certificate of occupancy issues. A renovation container is therefore exempt from the wall that a permanent bin would need.
For a container in a public alley or public place, the code allows it so long as it does not interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic. Street and right-of-way work is handled by the Engineering Division, which publishes its permit applications and checklists online. City Hall is at 26000 Evergreen Road and the main number is 248-796-5000. Your account manager will confirm which approval your address needs before the truck is scheduled.
One more Southfield rule shapes service times rather than paperwork: no dumpster within 500 feet of a residential building may be emptied between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Everyday renovation and household debris gives no trouble at all. Wood, drywall, flooring, cabinets, roofing, furniture, carpet and packaging all load normally.
Hazardous material is the hard line everywhere in Michigan. Liquids, fuels, solvents, oil-based paint, pesticides, pool chemicals, asbestos and anything under pressure stay out of a container, whatever the receiving site. Southfield's own code separately bars burying waste, burning it in the open, and letting waste scatter from a container onto a street or a neighboring lot.
Items that need a different route rather than a container include tires, car batteries, refrigerant appliances, fluorescent tubes, televisions and computer monitors. Southfield is a member community of the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County, which runs drop-off recycling and household hazardous waste collection events for residents of its nine member communities. That is a residents' service, not a commercial disposal route, so a contractor clearing a site should plan a separate arrangement for those items.
If you are not sure whether something is acceptable, tell your account manager what it is before loading. Declaring an awkward item in advance is far cheaper than having a full container refused at the gate.
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.
Southfield is a member of the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County, alongside Farmington, Farmington Hills, Milford, Milford Township, Novi, South Lyon, Walled Lake and Wixom. The authority describes itself as an intergovernmental municipal solid waste authority formed in 1989, and it is based at 20000 W. 8 Mile Road in Southfield itself. Its published number is 248-208-2270.
The authority runs recycling drop-offs and hazardous waste events for member residents, and it describes its wider work as delivered through public and private partnerships. Because the operator of the processing site is not stated on the authority's own pages, no facility card appears below. Southfield is not a member of the separate authority that serves the twelve communities around Royal Oak and Troy, so that transfer station is not where a Southfield load goes.
Oakland County itself does not run a disposal site or a hauler program. On the County's own waste page its role is the county solid waste plan, materials management planning, a household hazardous waste program and public information, and it states plainly that recycling programs in Oakland County are managed by the local communities. So the destination for a Southfield container is set by the hauler's own arrangements rather than by a county facility, and your account manager confirms the receiving site when the load is quoted.
Most Southfield deliveries can be arranged inside one to two business days. Booking earlier buys you room to settle the placement approval and to clear the drop zone properly, and early bookings are usually cheaper.
Five things speed the job up:
Keep the evening rule in mind when you plan the last day of a job. A container near housing cannot be emptied after 6:00 p.m., so a late Friday finish usually means a Monday pull.
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Prime Dumpster covers the whole of Southfield, from the Northwestern Highway office corridor and the Civic Center area to the residential streets around Lathrup Village, Magnolia and Beverly Hills. We coordinate delivery, service and the final pull around your work schedule rather than ours.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will size the container, settle the placement question with you, and give you a firm price 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.
Expect $399 to $499 for a 10-yard container and $699 to $899 for a 40-yard, on a standard five-day rental. Debris weight and the disposal charge on the receiving end move the figure within those bands. Your account manager settles the tonnage allowance and the rate above it before delivery is scheduled.
For anything beyond a car boot load, a container wins. Self-hauling means repeated trips, a minimum charge each time you arrive, fuel, and your own hours behind the wheel. One container on the driveway handles a whole renovation in a single movement, and the debris never leaves the property until it leaves for good.
Yes. A three-seat couch takes up roughly a fifth of a 10-yard container, leaving plenty of room for a bed frame, boxes and smaller furniture. Bulky household items run out of space long before they trouble a weight allowance, so volume rather than tonnage is the limit on that kind of load.
Out go liquids, fuels, solvents, oil-based paint, pesticides, pressurized cylinders and asbestos. Tires, car batteries, refrigerant appliances, fluorescent tubes and electronics need a separate route rather than a container. Tell your account manager about any of these before the container is loaded, because a refused load costs a second haul.
The 10-yard container has the lowest base price at $399 to $499, but the cheapest job is not always the smallest container. Heavy Southfield debris such as plaster and old concrete can pass a 10-yard weight allowance quickly. Separating dense material into its own container often costs less overall.
A three-day rental normally costs the same as the standard five-day period, because containers are priced by job rather than by day. Weight drives the final bill far more than duration does. Ask what tonnage the Southfield price carries, and what a ton beyond it adds, before the container lands.
Lumber, drywall, flooring, roofing, cabinets, doors, furniture, carpet, cardboard and general renovation debris are all acceptable. Clean concrete, brick and soil are accepted too, and keeping them in a separate container usually costs less than mixing them. When an item is unusual, check it with your account manager before it goes in.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Southfield, Michigan 48075 |
| Phone: | 586-340-0104 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
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