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11 service lines, five container sizes, and one phone number. Every page below says which rules we read and which ones we could not find.
It is the same steel underneath all of this: five container sizes, from a 10 yard built for dense material up to a 40 yard built for bulk. What differs between a shingle tear-off and a house clearance is the sizing logic — one reaches lawful payload with most of the box still empty, the other runs out of room while barely moving the needle on a scale — and the list of what is not allowed to go in at all. Those are the two things worth reading a service page for.
There is a third thing, and it is the reason this site reads differently from the others you will find. Inside the City of Saginaw we can tell you exactly why you are calling, with a section number: City Code § 50.06(C) and § 50.06(I) between them cover almost everything a household or a contractor rents a container for, and you can open the ordinance and check. Outside the city line we cannot, because the other sixteen communities on our list have refuse rules we were not able to establish, and we would rather say so than hand you the City's rules with somebody else's address on them.
Already know the answer? Call (989) 272-9034 and leave the reading to somebody else. Still weighing up whether the job is a junk removal or an estate clearance, or whether demolition material ought to travel on its own, the pages below put it in plain words. The FAQ page covers what comes up most on the phone, and the sizing guide works through the arithmetic.
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A container on your own driveway for a cleanout municipal collection was never built to take. In the City of Saginaw § 50.05 caps a household at 35 gallons, 50 pounds and 20 bags a week; outside the City we could not establish the local limit.
Learn moreContainers and swap-outs for shops, offices, restaurants and property managers across Saginaw County, on whatever cadence the job actually runs at.
Learn moreJobsite roll-offs for builders working under the Michigan Building Code 2021 — and, for houses, the Michigan Residential Code 2015. The split is real and it catches people out.
Learn moreTear-off containers sized for shingle weight rather than shingle volume, which is why a roof almost never belongs in the biggest box on the lot.
Learn moreFive container sizes, from the 10 yard upward, running into the City and the sixteen other communities on our list — every one of them a separate government.
Learn moreA page about availability rather than a promise. Call and ask what the board looks like today, and you will get a straight answer either way.
Learn moreThe container stays on your driveway and you load it on your own clock — no appointment window to sit through and no crew in the house.
Learn moreUnhurried container service for families clearing a long-held house, where the sorting matters more than the speed and nobody should be rushed.
Learn moreContainers for gut-outs, garages and small structures — and the notification question, which applies below the asbestos thresholds too, at $100 and ten working days.
Learn moreDedicated low-fill containers for concrete, block and tear-out, because dense material reaches the weight a loaded truck can lawfully carry with most of the box still empty.
Learn moreA container sized for bulk after a storm or a clearing job. In the City of Saginaw § 50.06(I) will not collect the result of contract work, and it names tree trimming.
Learn moreSizes
Weight, not volume, is usually what decides which one you want.
| Size | Dimensions | Capacity | What fills it first | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Yard Dumpster | about 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high | about 50-70 kitchen-size trash bags | Weight, with the box still half empty | Concrete, block, tile, dirt and roof tear-off. |
| 15 Yard Dumpster | about 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 80-100 kitchen-size trash bags | Usually weight, on a mixed load | Garage clearing, flooring tear-out and one heavy room. |
| 20 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 110-130 kitchen-size trash bags | Either, depending what goes in | Most remodels, and a house being emptied room by room. |
| 30 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high | about 170-190 kitchen-size trash bags | Volume, on bulky light material | Multi-room work and a full estate clearance. |
| 40 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high | about 230-250 kitchen-size trash bags | Volume, almost always | New construction and bulky demolition waste. |
How it works
A few minutes on the phone. What is coming out, what part of the property the box can stand on, what room a truck has to work in once it turns off the street, and whether the pile is dense or merely large. Nothing to fill in, nothing to wait on.
Dense material reaches the weight a loaded truck can lawfully carry with most of the box still empty, so the biggest container is usually the wrong answer for concrete or a roof tear-off. If a smaller box is the right call, that is what you will hear.
The driver walks the spot with you before anything comes off the truck and sets the container square. Plywood goes under the wheels and both rails on a driveway. We are not qualified to assess ground at your address and we will say so rather than guess.
Nothing should stand above the rail when you are done, and nothing should go in that Michigan bars from a landfill. That list runs item by item rather than as a blanket rule, and the banned-material guide works through it one entry at a time. Swap or early collection: one call.
Clean concrete, metal and clean yard material get routed for recovery where the facilities allow it. And if your question is really about what your own township requires, we will point you at that township rather than invent an answer.
Why us
No quote form, no booking screen, no account. You describe the job and you get asked about the surface, the approach and whether the load is heavy rather than bulky — the same questions the driver would ask on the day, which is why they get asked first. You will also get told which of the governments on our list covers your address, or that we could not establish it.
When we tell you the City will not collect your demolition material, we give you § 50.06(C) and the ordinance date. When we cannot establish a rule for your township, we say that too, rather than borrowing the City's and hoping. Both halves matter.
A container almost always runs out of lawful payload before it runs out of room. Concrete, block and shingle tear-off hit what a loaded truck may legally carry on the road with the box looking half used, which is how a job that reads like a 30 turns out to be a 10.
Plywood goes under the wheels and both rails as standard. Firm dry ground carries a loaded container; ground softened by a wet week or moving through freeze and thaw does not. We are not qualified to assess the ground at your address, and we will tell you that instead of reassuring you.
We do not publish a delivery guarantee, because we are not going to make one we might not keep. Call and ask what the board looks like today and you will get a straight answer, including when the answer is no.
Clean concrete, scrap metal and clean yard material get routed for recovery rather than buried where that is possible. Michigan's landfill bans are item by item, not a blanket rule, and the ones people assume are often not the ones that apply.
Talk to a real person
Describe the job in a sentence. Call (989) 272-9034 and you will hear which container fits it and what has to stay out of the load.
Call and ask what the board looks like today
Answers
Roll-off container rental. The service lines on this page are not different trucks or different steel; they are different versions of the same four questions — what the material is, how much of it there is, where the box is going to stand, and how a truck reaches that spot. What genuinely changes between a roof tear-off and an estate clearance is the sizing logic and the rules about what has to stay out of the load, and that is what these pages are for.
Because a loaded container has to be lifted onto a truck and driven on a public road, and that fixes a ceiling on weight that extra height does nothing to raise. Concrete, block, tile, soil and shingle reach that ceiling with a good deal of empty wall above them. So dense material goes in a small box filled part way, and a bulky household clearout goes in a big one. Reaching for the largest container is the single most common mistake on a dense load.
Usually, for general renovation and household material. Where you can keep clean concrete, scrap metal and clean yard material separate on site, it is worth doing, because clean single-material loads can be routed for recovery rather than buried. Whether any particular material belongs in any particular load is a conversation to have before the box arrives rather than something a web page should settle, so describe what you actually have when you call.
The law and the facility, not a sentence on this website. Michigan's landfill restrictions are item by item rather than one list: some items carry no stated ban at all, a couple are conditional, and households and businesses are not treated the same. EGLE publishes the current position, and a hauler has a statutory duty to inform customers about landfill-banned wastes annually, which is a fair indication of how often people are told something general and wrong. Tires are a worked example: there is a separate registration requirement in Michigan where more than ten scrap tires will be picked up, and ten is a low number on a cleanout.
Inside the City of Saginaw, yes, and you can read it yourself. City Code § 50.06 lists the material the City's own collection will not take, and two of its subsections do nearly all of the work: § 50.06(C) covers stones, bricks, plaster, shingles, lumber, demolition materials, building materials, concrete, sand, gravel, and earth, and § 50.06(I) covers material resulting from contract work. § 50.05 caps a household set-out at 35 gallons, 50 pounds and 20 bags a week. Chapter 50 is current through Ordinance O-274, passed 22 September 2025 and effective 2 October 2025. None of it requires anybody to rent anything; it states what the City will not collect, and what you do about that is your decision.
We do not know, and we are not going to borrow the City's and hope. Those section numbers are City of Saginaw ordinances and they stop at the city line. For the sixteen other communities on our list we were able to establish the county, the kind of government, the 2020 Census population and a straight-line distance, and nothing further — no refuse ordinance, no container rule, no fee. We could not find one is not the same statement as there is none, so call that township or village office. Saginaw Charter Township is the clearest case of why it matters: it is a separate government of 41,679 people, much of its mail reads Saginaw, and it enforces a different edition of the fire code than the City does.
Yes. Shops, offices, restaurants, property managers and site crews run containers on whatever cadence the work actually produces material at, rather than on a cadence that suits a billing cycle. A swap-out on a live site gets treated as more urgent than a new delivery, for the obvious reason that a full container stops a crew working. Call and ask what the board looks like today.
Check it yourself
Not one of these is us. Every rule quoted on this site comes from one of them, and where a page says we could not find a rule, this is where we looked.
Service area
We run containers out of 3102 Sawyer Dr to seventeen communities in Saginaw County. They are grouped below by what kind of government each one actually is, because in Michigan that is the difference between a city hall, a township board and a village that sits inside a township — and it decides who you have to call about your own address. If yours is not listed, call anyway; we most likely still get there.
The only jurisdiction in this list whose refuse rules we were able to read and quote.
A township board, not a city hall. We could not establish container or refuse rules for any of these, and we do not publish ones we could not read.
Two cities and two villages. A village sits inside its township, so a village address has two governments over it at once.
