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Dumpster Rental Guides for Greeley & Northern Colorado
Real answers from 13 years of hauling containers around Greeley and Weld County — sizing, costs, which desk you actually ask before a container touches a public street, what the City’s own clean-up refuses to take, what a 1985 median year built means for lead and asbestos, what to do after a hailstorm takes a roof off, and how to clear a project without paying for a second haul.
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13 guides written by people who drive the trucks
No filler, no listicles. Every one of these answers a question that comes across the desk at our yard on 14th Avenue most weeks, and the ordinances, section numbers and phone numbers in them are the City of Greeley’s, Weld County’s and Colorado’s rather than somebody else’s. Where a rule belongs to another town, we say so and tell you to ask there.
Sizes
What Size Dumpster Do I Need in Greeley, Colorado?
National size charts assume a house built in the last twenty years. Greeley's median home was built in 1985, and old houses give up heavy debris. Here is how we size containers here.
Cost
What a Dumpster Rental Costs in Greeley, CO
Seven things set what a container costs in Greeley. Five of them you control. Here is each one, plus the two figures we will not print and why.
Regulations
What Can and Cannot Go in a Dumpster in Colorado
Colorado has no single statewide banned-materials list. It has two hard bans, a free hazardous waste facility in Greeley, and a set of rules that are set facility by facility.
Permits
Dumpster Permits and Placement Rules in Greeley, CO
Greeley names dumpsters directly in its own permitting guidance, which is rarer than it sounds. Here is which permit applies, which does not, and who answers the phone.
Local Guide
Who Do I Actually Call? Greeley, Weld County and the Towns
In Greeley, somebody is in charge, and you can quote the section number. Here is the City desk, the county counter and the state number for every question a container raises.
Local Guide
Construction Debris Disposal in Weld County
Weld County runs to nearly four thousand square miles, and every permit counter that touches a construction job sits in Greeley. Here is which government is in charge of your address, and where the load goes.
Sizing Guide
Hail, Roof Tear-Offs and Dumpster Sizing in Greeley
Seven to nine hail days a year, and a housing stock where half the roofs are on their third covering. Roofing fills a container by weight long before volume, which is why the answer is a 15 or a 20 and never a 30.
Local Guide
Lead Paint and Asbestos in Older Greeley Homes
Greeley's median home was built in 1985, and nearly half the city predates 1980. That makes lead paint and asbestos ordinary questions here, not exotic ones. Here is what triggers each rule and who answers the phone.
Local Guide
Greeley's Spring Clean-Up: What the City Will Not Take
The City's own two-day clean-up is cheap, useful and worth using. It also refuses, by name, exactly what a remodel produces, and it turns away bagged loads at the gate.
Cleanouts
Student Move-Out and Rental Turnover in Greeley
Greeley runs on two calendars, and the second one belongs to landlords. Here is how the May and August turns work, and why the City's own clean-up cannot help you with them.
How-To
Driveway Protection and Dumpster Delivery in Greeley
A roll-off is rolled off a tilted truck bed, not lowered. Three moments do the damage, and all three are manageable. Here is what goes under the wheels, and why a 1968 Greeley driveway is a different question.
How-To
Estate Cleanout Checklist for Greeley Homes
Greeley is 60.9% owner-occupied with a median build year of 1985, so an estate here is usually one family's forty years. Five local traps, a three-pass method, and the container that fits.
Local Guide
Yard Waste and Brush Removal in Greeley
There is no Colorado landfill ban on yard waste, so a container is lawful. The real question is whether your pile is green waste or construction debris in a leafy disguise.
Helpful Local Resources
Every office below answers something we cannot — a code edition, a permit, a disposal rule, a locate. A good half of what people ask us on the phone is really a question for one of these desks, so here they are with the reason you would ring each one.
- City of GreeleyThe city that licenses refuse haulers, permits containers in the Public Space, and answers on one number — Greeley 311.
- Greeley Municipal CodeTitle 8 Chapter 11 on refuse haulers, § 12-269 on containers in the right-of-way, and § 22-454 adopting the fire code.
- Weld CountyThe county seat is here — administration, the building department and right-of-way permits are all on O Street in Greeley.
- Visit GreeleyThe city’s own guide to downtown, Glenmere Park and the parks and districts we work in.
- University of Northern ColoradoThe campus that sets the rhythm of the rental year here, and the May and August turnover that comes with it.
- Historic Greeley Inc.Preservation in the Monroe Avenue and downtown districts, from the Southard-Gillespie House.
- CDPHE6 CCR 1007-2 governs the landfill. Regulation 8, Part B governs asbestos — as air quality, not solid waste.
- Colorado 811Locates before the shovel. White-line the area, then allow the three days they ask for rather than the two the statute sets.
- US EPAWhere a pre-1978 lead certification is actually issued, since this state never took the program over.
- ECMCColorado’s oil and gas regulator, which matters on rural Weld County ground.
- CDOTState highways through Weld County, including the US 34 and US 85 corridors.
- National Weather ServiceHail reports, wind warnings and the Denver/Boulder desk on 303-494-3210.
- US Census QuickFactsPopulation, housing age and tenure for Greeley and Weld County.
- Colorado Geological SurveyThe swelling-clay corridor that runs south from this city, mapped by the people who mapped it.
Services
Or skip the reading and pick a container
Residential Dumpster Rental
Basements, garages and thirty years of storage out of a house that predates 1980.
Learn more →Commercial Dumpster Rental
Shops, restaurants and contractors inside the limits, where the City is the permit desk.
Learn more →Construction Dumpster Rental
Mixed C&D in one box, swapped next day anywhere the county seat reaches.
Learn more →Roofing Dumpster Rental
Counted in squares and layers, because hail is the job this county buys containers for.
Learn more →Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
Ten through forty yard boxes, out of the yard on 14th Avenue every working day.
Learn more →Same-Day Dumpster Rental
Ring before nine and there is usually an afternoon slot still on the board.
Learn more →Talk to a real person
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