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At Prime Dumpster we arrange roll-off containers across Tempe, Arizona, from the student rental blocks either side of Apache Boulevard to the industrial and light manufacturing bays south of the airport. Tempe is landlocked and almost fully built out, which makes it a renovation and redevelopment market rather than a ground-up construction one: infill, tenant fit-outs, roof replacements and whole-house remodels on sixty-year-old ranch stock.
The thing worth knowing before anything else is that Tempe actually regulates this, and it regulates it on the container as well as on the hauler. The city code says only contractors licensed by the city may collect solid waste inside Tempe, and then says in plain terms that containers belonging to companies without that permission may not be placed for use anywhere in the city. That is unusual and it is the reason to settle the arrangement properly rather than take a cheap number from whoever answers the phone first.
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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 |
Size sets the opening figure and material weight moves it most. Tempe's older housing gives up a lot of dense material: slab patios, block walls, clay tile roofs and terrazzo. A clean load of any of those reaches a container's tonnage ceiling with the walls barely half filled.
The second factor in Tempe is time on site, and it is specific to Maricopa County. The county's environmental health code requires refuse collection no less often than once a week unless a formal variance plan has been approved, which means a container sitting through a slow three-week phase of a job is not simply a scheduling preference. It is something to plan around. Your account manager will build the collection pattern into the quote rather than leaving it to be discovered later.
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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Let the material decide first. Tempe lots are generous by valley standards and most of them take any size in the range, so access is rarely the constraint.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the dense-material container, and in Tempe it earns its keep more often than elsewhere. Concrete, block, clay tile and terrazzo all hit a weight limit long before they fill a container, so a patio demolition or a tile tear-off belongs here rather than in something larger.
The 15-Yard Dumpster covers a single bathroom, a garage clear-down, a light roof tear-off or a carport conversion.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the one Tempe homes book most. A whole-house cleanout, a kitchen plus two rooms, a flooring strip or a full interior remodel all fit, and the walls stay low enough to load over by hand.
The 30-Yard Dumpster suits a large addition, an infill rebuild or a serious demolition, where framing lumber, drywall and roof decking build volume faster than weight.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is the commercial size for tenant fit-outs and the industrial bays south of the airport. It takes large demolition and plant clearing, and the driver needs a straight approach, a level drop point and clear height overhead.
A container on private property, in a driveway or inside a fenced job site, is the normal arrangement in Tempe and no city street permit attaches to it.
What Tempe does regulate tightly is who may collect. The code states that only contractors licensed by the city may collect solid waste within Tempe boundaries, and the city defines solid waste widely enough to take in everything a renovation generates. It also defines construction waste and debris as a class of its own, covering dirt, rock, concrete, asphalt, sand, construction and demolition debris, lumber, railroad ties, carpet rolls, plaster and roofing materials. There is no construction exemption anywhere in the chapter. Reading the whole of it, the word exempt does not appear once.
Two consequences follow, and both are practical. First, the licensing side runs through the city's Public Works Department, carries a bond, an annual per-vehicle fee and a city audit right over gross receipts, runs on the city's fiscal year from the start of July, and is not transferable. Second, and this is the part that reaches you directly, the code says containers belonging to companies without that permission may not be placed for use inside the city at all, and that the city may impound a container whose owner cannot be identified or contacted. Every container must carry a company name and phone number on it. So the identity of the company whose container sits on your lot is a city compliance question, not just a commercial one, and your account manager confirms it is in order before anything is scheduled.
The city's own permission is written helpfully from our point of view. The container article states that garbage containers, including roll off containers and compactors, may be supplied by a licensed contractor. The product is named in the permission rather than argued into it.
For the street, Tempe has a real and unusually sensible route. The streets chapter bars obstructing a right-of-way, and then allows temporary obstructions in writing from the City Engineer for construction purposes, where an undue hardship would otherwise result or where safety requires it. There is no fixed day count: the rule is that the obstruction may not stay longer than is needed to accomplish its purpose. That is a more flexible position than a thirty-day cap, and the application goes through the City Engineer rather than a separate licensing counter. Your account manager will point you at the right desk.
One more duty is worth raising at quote stage because it lands on the customer. Tempe requires building owners and contractors, on completion of construction, to remove at their own expense all waste that resulted from the building work, naming lumber scraps, shingles, plaster, brick, stone and concrete. A city that writes that down expects a container on site.
Ordinary construction, demolition and household debris is acceptable in a Tempe container. The firm limits come from the city code, the county's rules and the receiving site.
Hazardous material stays out of every container: fuels, solvents, wet paint, pesticides, pool chemicals, pressurized cylinders and anything carrying PCBs. Tempe's own code separately bars hazardous waste, septic and cesspool contents and its listed non-collectible items from city containers, and the same logic applies to a rented one.
The city's non-collectible list is a useful checklist for a valley job because it names the awkward items directly: tires, paint, motor oil, gasoline, car parts, batteries, propane tanks, computer parts, medical waste and liquid waste. Each needs its own route.
Asbestos cannot go in a standard container. Tempe's ranch-era housing and its older commercial buildings can both turn up pipe lagging, resilient floor tile, textured ceiling coating and roofing felt, so a suspect material needs testing before anything is loaded.
Liquids are out, including water standing in an old evaporative cooler sump or a drum. Water adds weight and nothing else.
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.
Tempe is a market where the honest answer involves naming no facility, and the reason is worth setting out rather than glossing over.
The city's code refers to a city compost and inert facility that charges a per-ton rate, so such a site exists. The city's own website does not serve automated requests at all, which means there is no city-published address, hours or phone to give you.
At county level, Maricopa County Environmental Services runs six transfer stations of its own and publishes full details for each. They are genuinely public and genuinely county-operated. They are also at Aguila, Cave Creek, Arlington, Morristown, New River and Goodyear, thirty or more road miles out from Tempe, and they exist to serve unincorporated rural county areas where there is no municipal collection. None of them is where a Tempe container is tipped, so listing one here would be padding rather than help. Construction and debris landfills in the county sit under the county environmental health code and under state oversight from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, whose waste programs division is on West Jefferson Street in Phoenix.
What that means in practice is straightforward. Your account manager confirms the actual destination for your specific load at booking, tells you what it charges by weight, and tells you whether keeping clean concrete or clean untreated lumber in its own container changes the number. In this valley it usually does.
There is one county rule behind all of this that is easy to miss and worth repeating. Maricopa County's environmental health code sets a minimum collection frequency of once a week, with any variance needing an approved plan from the county and from the state. On a job where the container would otherwise sit untouched for two weeks, that rule is the reason the collection pattern gets agreed up front.
Most Tempe containers can be scheduled inside one to two business days. Private-property placements are the norm, so the timing usually depends on the truck and on confirming the arrangement rather than on any city process.
What makes a Tempe booking move quickly:
A desert note that costs real money. Monsoon season turns an uncovered container of drywall and insulation into a much heavier container overnight, and summer heat makes an early-morning delivery slot worth asking for. Both are easy to arrange if they are raised at booking.
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Prime Dumpster covers Tempe itself along with Guadalupe, Ahwatukee, the Papago Park industrial strip and the valley communities immediately around them. Tempe's boundary is complicated, so the exact street address matters more here than the postal town.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will size the container, agree the collection pattern against the county's weekly rule, settle the destination and give you a firm number 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.
For the standard five days a 10-yard runs $399 to $499 and a 40-yard $699 to $899. Weight-based disposal is charged on top, at the rate of the receiving site. Your account manager confirms the tonnage allowance, the overage rate and the destination when the container is booked.
Past one pickup load, renting wins in Tempe comfortably. The county's own transfer stations are thirty or more miles out and take cards only, so self-hauling a renovation means long round trips, fuel and a charge at each visit rather than one weighed load.
Yes, with room to spare. A three-seat couch takes roughly a fifth of a 10-yard, and a bed frame, a dresser and boxed goods fit around it. Household furniture runs out of volume long before it reaches a weight limit, so a 10-yard suits most clear-downs.
Fuels, solvents, wet paint, pesticides, pool chemicals and pressurized cylinders stay out, and so do liquids. Asbestos-bearing material cannot go in a standard container. Tempe's own list also separates tires, motor oil, car parts, batteries, propane tanks, computer parts and medical waste.
The 10-yard carries the lowest base price at $399 to $499, and on a Tempe job with block, concrete or clay tile in it the 10-yard is usually the correct container anyway. Keeping dense material in its own load beats one mixed container that runs past its tonnage.
Three days and five days normally settle at one figure in Tempe, because the job rather than the calendar drives the price. Weight is what moves the bill. Ask your account manager to confirm the included tonnage and the overage rate before delivery is scheduled.
Lumber, drywall, roofing, flooring, cabinets, fixtures, doors, windows, furniture, cardboard, brick, block and clean concrete are all acceptable in an Arizona container. Clean concrete and clean untreated wood are worth keeping as separate loads. Check anything borderline with your account manager first.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Tempe, Arizona 85281 |
| Phone: | 602-854-4085 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
| Monday-Saturday | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
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