Greeley, CO · Weld County
Roll-Off Dumpsters in Greeley — and Straight Answers About the Rules
10 through 40 yard containers across Greeley and Weld County, at one flat price that already includes the disposal. Greeley licenses the companies that haul here and names dumpsters in its own permitting rules — so when you call, you get the section number and the right phone desk, not a shrug. Locally owned since 2013.
- On your own driveway, no city permit
- One flat price, disposal included
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- Same-day where the schedule allows
Fully insured· Disposal in the price· Weld County since 2013
Why Greeley Dumpster Rental
Why the phone gets picked up in Greeley
Nobody books a roll-off during a good week. There is a kitchen sitting in boxes on the dining room floor, a roof half stripped with weather coming, or a house on the north side that one person lived in for fifty years and four siblings now have a month to empty. What none of that wants is a hauler who says one number down the phone, prints a different one on the invoice, and leaves the container parked square across the mailbox on his way out.
Our first truck went on the road in 2013, and 13 years on the rule behind it has not shifted: name the real cost, then turn up on the day we said we would. Marcus Hale still takes most of the morning calls and still works the dispatch board himself, and no driver on this fleet backs a box in without walking the drop on foot first.
We run out of 514 14th Ave — our yard here in Greeley, a few blocks north-west of downtown and about half a mile from Island Grove — which means nothing has to be routed up from another market when you want a box on the drive this afternoon. It is already on our lot. The city grid does the rest of the work. Numbered streets run east and west, numbered avenues run north and south, and the avenue numbers climb as you head west out of downtown — 23rd, 35th, 47th, 59th. North of the old grid the east–west streets are lettered instead, which is why the county building sits on O Street and the museum village on A Street. Give us a cross street and an avenue and we know exactly where you are.
The more useful thing about working in Greeley is that somebody is in charge, and you can quote the section number. Greeley is a home rule city and the seat of Weld County, and it regulates refuse hauling as a licensed trade in its own municipal code. § 8-368 provides that “all refuse haulers who collect, transport or remove refuse, garbage or ashes within the city shall be required to have a license”; § 8-369 sets vehicle standards — a packer truck, or a tight metal lining with a flame-proof tarpaulin; § 8-370 requires every vehicle description to be filed with the finance director; and § 8-371 declares the City “the sole agency for the collection and disposal of refuse,” acting through “city-licensed operators.” Read together those sections say something short and genuinely useful: Greeley does not run the trucks. It licenses the people who do. There is no municipal truck coming for a basement’s worth of material, and there never was. Anything you want to ask the City is one number — Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311.
Second, the City names dumpsters directly, which almost no city does. Its own permitting guidance states that “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage,” and that desk is Public Works Permits, 970-350-9881, at 2835 W. 10th Street, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. On private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no Public Space permit is in play at all, and that is where the overwhelming majority of our containers go. Two more provisions are worth knowing by number. § 12-269(a) allows trash containers on the right-of-way “for one 24-hour period within a seven-day period” — that is the weekly curbside rule for a household cart, not a free pass for a roll-off. And § 12-269(b) puts the obligation squarely on the property owner: “all refuse and debris remaining as a result of the demolition or repair of any buildings or the erection and completion of any buildings shall be removed following substantial completion of the work.” That sentence is most of the reason a container exists.
Third, this is the county seat, and that concentrates a remarkable amount of machinery inside the city limits. Weld County covers 3,984.94 square miles — Colorado’s third largest county, 378,426 people, more than 80 percent of the state’s oil and gas and $2.38 billion in agricultural sales — and the administration, the building department, planning and the right-of-way permit desk are all at 1150 O Street in Greeley, on (970) 400-4000, with planning on (970) 400-6100. A contractor working in Briggsdale or Keenesburg sorts the paperwork here. So does the household hazardous waste, and that is the single most useful fact on this page: Weld County Household Hazardous Waste at 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley, (970) 400-2217, open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., free to every Weld County resident, capped at 200 pounds a household each visit, with nothing over five gallons, nothing leaking and nothing bagged. Paint, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals and automotive fluids cannot go in a container — and there is a free place for them, three days a week, a short run from most addresses in this city. It does not take electronics or appliances.
Fourth, the housing is old, and that shapes more jobs here than anything else. The median Greeley home was built in 1985. Roughly 46 percent of the stock predates 1980, about 17 percent predates 1960, and 7.2 percent went up in 1939 or earlier — with nearly 29 percent built between 1960 and 1979, the ranch belt that is hitting sixty now and needs the kitchen, the bathrooms, the roof, the sewer lateral and the lower level all at once. The city is 60.9 percent owner-occupied with a median household income of $69,881, so a great many of these jobs are done in stages by the people who live there. It also means lead paint and asbestos are front-page questions here rather than footnotes, and we raise them on the phone rather than after the fact.
Fifth, the calendar. The average last spring frost is 12 May and the first fall frost 8 October, so outdoor demolition and landscaping start in May rather than March. The University of Northern Colorado’s year ends in early May — 8,807 students as of Fall 2025 in a city of about 115,073 that is 39.1 percent renter-occupied against 22.1 percent county-wide — so leases turn in the same fortnight. And the City’s own Annual Spring Clean-Up runs two days in early May, residents only with photo ID, and its published exclusion list refuses “construction or demolition debris (including dirt, concrete, masonry, plywood, and similar materials)” along with bagged loads, which “will be turned away.” The Clean-Up line is 970-350-9336; ask them for this year’s dates. Past all that it is street knowledge: which rear alleys behind the older blocks will take a 20 and which will not; that hail is the anchor job, on the seven to nine hail days a year that put this corridor at the top of NOAA’s list; and that the City’s own adopted residential code publishes a 30-inch frost line, so basements are ordinary and a clear-out here is a vertical stack rather than one room.
More on how the company started — or skip ahead to the list of what we haul.
- Trading since2013
- Boxes on the yard10 to 40 yd³
- Usual turnaroundToday or tomorrow
- Places we run to17
What we haul
Dumpster rental services in Greeley and Northern Colorado
Eleven ways to fill a container and one way of pricing them. The figure quoted down the phone is the figure on the invoice, and the disposal is already sitting inside it.
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 →Junk Removal Dumpsters
Empty a lower level, a garage or a rental unit at whatever pace suits you.
Learn more →Estate Cleanout Dumpsters
Unhurried container work for a family emptying a house somebody lived in for decades.
Learn more →Demolition Debris Removal
Porches, sheds, garages and interior strip-outs, with swaps that keep a crew moving.
Learn more →Concrete & Heavy Debris
Dedicated cans for slab, block, brick and footing spoil, loaded flat and low.
Learn more →Yard Waste & Brush Removal
Green material kept in its own load, because composting here is closer and cheaper.
Learn more →Choose your size
Five sizes, sized for real projects
Describe the pile and we will name the box. Nine calls in ten get sized correctly inside two minutes, because the opening question is not how much room the debris takes up — it is what it weighs. Broken concrete, block, brick and mortar, a basement floor taken out, a retaining wall pulled over, an apron replaced, spoil out of a 30-inch footing trench: every one of those is a weight job long before it is ever a volume job, and dense material belongs in a small can without exception. Roofing behaves identically, and in this city it is the conversation we have more than any other. A hail tear-off is counted in squares and layers, it reaches lawful payload with the box still looking part used, and it never goes in a 30 or a 40. On a house from the sixties or seventies there is often a second course still nailed to the deck, which quietly doubles the tonnage on a roof that read as one can. What genuinely earns a 30 or a 40 is the opposite animal — a basement and a garage taken back to the walls, or a multi-room remodel of furniture, cabinets, carpet, insulation and trim — because that debris eats space and weighs almost nothing. The 20 sits between them and leaves this yard more often than the other four put together. Two local figures move the math. The residential code the City adopted publishes a 30-inch frost line, so houses here were built with a floor underneath them and the ordinary clear-out runs vertically rather than along one hallway. And this is dry country — the 1991–2020 normal at Greeley–Weld County Airport is 15.34 inches a year — so what threatens an open container is not a soaked load. It is wind. An open box is a sail, chinook downslope events have produced recorded Front Range gusts of 137 mph, and Weld publishes a 115 mph basic residential design wind. Load it under the rails and put a tarp over it.
10 Yard Dumpster
Slab, block, brick and footing spoil — it reaches payload with the box still half empty.
View this size → 15yd³15 Yard Dumpster
One single-layer hail tear-off, or one room of an older house taken back to the studs.
View this size → 20yd³20 Yard Dumpster
The box that leaves our yard most: a basement and a garage cleared in one fortnight.
View this size → 30yd³30 Yard Dumpster
A whole-floor remodel, a lifetime of storage, or a May turnover. Shingle never rides in it.
View this size → 40yd³40 Yard Dumpster
Bulk with no weight in it — and it wants more room to land than anything else we run.
View this size →How it works
Four steps and nothing to sign
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Tell us the job
Two minutes, and a cross street and an avenue is enough to place you on this grid. You hang up with a flat number that has the disposal inside it.
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We set it down
The driver walks the approach first, puts mats under both rails, and keeps the box the five feet clear of combustible wall that Section 304.3 asks for.
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Fill it flat and low
Use the days in your window. Heavy on the bottom, nothing standing proud of the rail, and tarped — wind is the risk here, not rain.
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Say the word
Ring or text and we pull it. Metal, cardboard and electronics come out on the way, and the rest goes to a gate permitted to take it.
Local knowledge
What makes hauling in Greeley different
Surface, wind, and a city that keeps a permit counter
Almost everything that goes wrong on a delivery goes wrong at the surface under the wheels. Greeley sits at 4,676 feet near the confluence of the Cache la Poudre and the South Platte — nearly a mile up, but flat river-bottom and irrigated plain at the foot of the range rather than mountains, so our approaches are a city grid and section-line county roads rather than switchbacks. What the ground is doing at depth under your driveway is not something we will put in writing: that is a geotechnical question, and nobody has been out to survey it. The Colorado Geological Survey does map a potentially swelling-clay corridor along the Front Range with Greeley named at its northern end, and notes that those clays can expand up to twenty percent by volume when they get wet — which is a reason to keep a heavy box on concrete rather than on soft ground, not a claim about your address. The surface is what we do deal with, and it has three moods in this city. Dry, it will carry a loaded container as well as ground anywhere in the country will. Soft — after an irrigation set, after snowmelt, after one of the cloudbursts that deliver a good share of the year in a couple of afternoons — and several tons riding on four small pads will cut in and stay cut in. Frozen, it is fine right up to the thaw. Which is why turf, a verge or a soft gravel pad does not count as a bearing surface here: mats go under the wheels and both rails, the box goes on concrete instead of grass, and now and again the answer is a smaller box loaded flat and low. Allow us roughly 60 ft of straight run, 11 ft of width and 20+ ft of open sky for the arm, plus clearance around the walkout, the meter and the service drop. Then wind, which is the weather risk that actually governs placement here: recorded chinook gusts of 137 mph and a published 115 mph residential design wind for Weld. An empty box walks off down the block and a heaped one posts itself along the street. Weight it, cover it, and keep the load under the rails.
Then the part a national guide gets wrong at this address — and in Greeley it is unusually easy to state, because the City wrote it down. Private ground — your driveway, your yard, your parking lot — engages no Public Space permit whatsoever, and that is where nearly every box we set ends up. Should any part of the container come to rest on public ground, the City has already answered in its own words: “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage.” That is Public Works Permits on 970-350-9881, 2835 W. 10th Street, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Do not confuse it with § 12-269(a), which allows trash containers on the right-of-way “for one 24-hour period within a seven-day period” — that is the curbside cart rule. On the fire side the City adopted the 2021 International Fire Code at § 22-454, effective 1 January 2023, and makes no amendment to Section 304, so the model rules apply as written: under Section 304.3 a dumpster must not be stored inside a building or placed within five feet of a combustible wall. Every roll-off we place is far over the threshold, so the five-foot rule applies to all of them. The same section is where the 40-gallon lid rule lives, and the rule that materials liable to spontaneous ignition — oily rags above all — belong in a listed disposal container rather than loose in a box. Greeley runs its own fire department with seven stations, and placement questions go to the Fire Prevention Bureau on (970) 350-9510. Outside the city limits the answers change and we will say so: Weld County at 1150 O Street, (970) 400-4000 for a county road, the local fire district rather than the county for anything about a container against a structure, and Garden City is a separate town with a government of its own. Before a shovel goes in for a footing, a fence line, a stump or a service, ring Colorado 811 on 811 or 800-922-1987. The statute, C.R.S. § 9-1.5-103, sets the notice at two business days excluding the day you give it; Colorado 811 asks for three; take the three. Mark the dig in white before you call. Putting a container down is not excavation. Digging to make room for one is. Read the permit and placement guide, or who to call for what.
An old city in a brand-new county, and houses with a downstairs
Greeley began as the Union Colony in 1870, organized by Nathan Meeker, agricultural editor of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, and named for him. Membership cost $160; more than three thousand people wrote in and about seven hundred were selected. The colonists dug their first ditch the summer they arrived — the ten-mile town ditch, Greeley Number 3, finished on 10 June 1870 — and by 1888 the colony’s three main ditches watered 90,000 acres. The town incorporated on 15 November 1885. What sits on that ground now is 49.09 square miles and about 115,073 people, the seat of a county of 378,426, with the University of Northern Colorado at 501 20th Street, Aims Community College out at 5401 W 20th Street, JBS USA headquartered here and the Greeley Stampede at Island Grove every summer.
And the housing is the part that matters to us. The median Greeley home was built in 1985; roughly 46 percent of the stock predates 1980, about 17 percent predates 1960, 7.2 percent dates from 1939 or earlier, and nearly 29 percent went up between 1960 and 1979. The city is 60.9 percent owner-occupied with a median household income of $69,881. That is an old city sitting inside the newest, fastest-growing county in Colorado, and it puts two rules on the front page rather than in a footnote. Lead is the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule for housing built before 1978, and the reversal worth knowing is that Colorado is not an EPA-authorized state, so firms certify with EPA directly. Asbestos lands under air quality in this state, with CDPHE’s Air Pollution Control Division running it through Regulation 8, Part B. On a single-family house the thresholds are 32 square feet of surface, 50 linear feet of pipe covering, or a 55-gallon drum by volume; a certified inspector goes in ahead of the work; notification runs ten working days in front of it and is required for any demolition whatever the quantity; and the published single-family fees are $60 to notify and $180 for a thirty-day permit. Buildings put up after 12 October 1988 are exempt where documentation confirms no asbestos-containing materials were used. The number is 720-507-5136, and we do not accept asbestos in our containers, ever. Both obligations sit with the party doing the work rather than with us — but they change the schedule, so tell us if they apply. The oldest housing is where you would expect: the Monroe Avenue Historic District, designated by the City on 13 December 1999 and published as “9th Ave. from 11th St. to 16th St., roughly”; the Downtown Greeley Historic District, designated 25 November 2002 and published as “7th to 10th Streets between 8th and 9th Avenues, and including the Weld County Courthouse, Lincoln Park and Greeley High School”; and Glenmere, whose Fairacres subdivision was developed from 1919 by lumber dealer Frank M. Weller. If your property is designated or sits inside one of those districts, check with the City before exterior work or demolition — Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311. And these houses have a downstairs. The City adopted the 2021 International Residential Code at § 22-76 and the 2021 International Building Code at § 22-31, both effective 1 January 2023, and its own adopted Table R301.2(1) specifies a 30-inch frost line. Once footings, water services and sewer laterals are going thirty inches down regardless, digging the extra for a basement costs comparatively little — so basements here are the norm rather than the exception. The clear-out that matters is therefore the lower level plus the garage, and both of those mean material gets carried up or across before it ever reaches the box. That is the case for a 15 or a 20 set close to the walkout rather than a 30 parked out at the curb. See the estate cleanout checklist and the lead and asbestos guide.
Who actually decides what a landfill takes, and what never rides with us
The state rules live with CDPHE at 6 CCR 1007-2, and the architecture of them catches people out. Colorado publishes no master schedule of materials a landfill has to refuse. Past a couple of statutory bans, every facility writes its own accepted and prohibited list into an approved operating plan — which is exactly why we ask what is in the load while we are quoting, instead of reciting a state list at you. Sitting above that is the certificate of designation. Under C.R.S. § 30-20-102, anyone owning or operating a solid wastes disposal site has to get that certificate from the governing body with jurisdiction first — the county — with the state reviewing. It attaches to the ground the site stands on, never to a truck. The outright bans are few, and worth knowing by name. Electronics have been shut out of Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 by C.R.S. § 25-17-303, so a television, a monitor, a tower or a printer needs a recycler — and the county hazardous waste site will not take one either. Waste tires sit under 6 CCR 1007-2, Section 10, which stops anyone moving ten or more without registering with the state, and they are turned away at the gate regardless. Tires never travel with us. Yard waste is the one that runs backwards from what people expect: this state has never imposed a landfill ban on it at all. The gates serving this county list branches and green material among what they take. That is not an invitation to bury brush in the corner of a mixed remodel box — a clean green load has a better and cheaper road ahead of it, with permitted composting nearby and A-1 Organics at Eaton on 970-454-3492. It just means the reason is economics, not statute, and we would rather say so than repeat somebody else’s state law at you.
Locally the picture closes in from three directions. One: the City does not collect it for you. Under § 8-371 Greeley is “the sole agency for the collection and disposal of refuse,” and it fills that role through “city-licensed operators” rather than a municipal truck — a household or a business arranges its own service. Two: the City’s own clean-up will not take construction debris. The Annual Spring Clean-Up runs two days in early May, residents only with photo ID, and the published exclusion list refuses “construction or demolition debris (including dirt, concrete, masonry, plywood, and similar materials)” and turns away bagged loads and enclosed trailers. It takes appliances, furniture, mattresses, scrap metal and a small number of tires; it does not take the output of a bathroom gut or a roof tear-off. The line is 970-350-9336, and the City’s own site is greeleyco.gov. Full detail in what the City will not take. Three: the free route that does exist is the county’s. Weld County Household Hazardous Waste, 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley, (970) 400-2217, open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., costs a Weld County resident nothing, and takes up to 200 pounds a household on each visit — no container over five gallons, nothing leaking, nothing in a bag, and neither electronics nor appliances. Paint, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals and automotive fluids all belong there rather than in a container. For clean green material the City runs the GROW Center on 970-673-3718, which takes grass, leaves, plants, limbs, branches and untreated lumber — painted, stained or nailed-together construction lumber is not clean wood and is not a GROW load. One more operational habit worth more than most advice on this page: the tarp goes on before the truck leaves your driveway. Full detail in what can and cannot go in a dumpster in Colorado.
What it weighs at your end, what the ticket says at ours
Masonry rubble — concrete, block, brick, mortar — is the heaviest thing we carry, and there is no published table we are willing to send you to for it. So take the following as a rule of thumb read off our own scale tickets rather than as a sourced figure: something in the region of 2,400–2,800 lbs per cubic yard. Whatever the exact number turns out to be, the consequence is the same, which is that a heavy load hits lawful transport weight while the container still looks part used. Material like that wants a 10 yard twice over rather than a 30 once — see concrete and heavy debris. Around here that means a basement floor broken out, a foundation repair, an apron replaced, a retaining wall pulled and old footings lifted. There is a Colorado complication stacked on top of the weight, and it is the frost line. The residential code the City adopted puts it at 30 inches, so footings, water services and laterals all begin deeper than a customer expects and every trench yields correspondingly more spoil. In a city whose median house dates from 1985, replacing a sewer line or repairing a foundation is routine recurring work rather than an unusual event. Dug ground neither settles nor compresses: two yards of it will move the scale ticket further than a whole room of cabinets. The roof is the other weight job, and in this market it is the main event. Tear-off gets counted in squares and layers and never in roof area, and on a sixties or seventies house a second course is commonly still sitting on the deck. Shingle is dense enough that a hail tear-off runs out of payload well before it runs out of room, which is the whole reason roofing never goes in a 30 or a 40 here. See roofing dumpsters and the hail tear-off guide.
The second half of the job is what becomes of the load once it leaves, and there it is sorting rather than any statute that sets the bill. There is no yard-waste landfill ban in this state — the gates serving this county take branches and green material — but a clean load of it still travels better and costs less on its own, and there is composting capacity a short run up the highway. Flattened corrugated and scrap metal come out of the box before anything else, because both have a buyer and neither should be paid for by the ton. Electronics come out because landfilling them in Colorado is unlawful under C.R.S. § 25-17-303, and the county hazardous waste site will not take them either, so they need a recycler of their own. Tires come out because they will simply be refused. After that: heavy underneath, light on top, everything below the rail so it can be covered, and insulation bagged before the wind gets to it — in a market carrying a 115 mph design wind and recorded chinook gusts of 137 mph, an open heaped container that nobody has secured is a liability rather than an untidiness. One last Greeley detail: § 12-272 of the municipal code makes it a violation for anyone other than the owner, occupant, lessee or tenant who placed a container to disturb it or its contents — the polite legal backing for asking the neighbors not to top up your box overnight. See yard waste removal, the yard waste and brush guide and the construction debris disposal guide.
- 13+Years running routes out of the county seat
- 17Districts, towns and county communities on the board
- 13Local guides written for this city
- 5Box sizes, from the 10 up to the 40
What customers say
Straight talk from Greeley and Weld County
I called three places and he was the only one who knew off the top of his head that a box on my own drive needs nothing from the city and a box in the street is a Public Space permit. Told me which desk, gave me the number, and had the 20 there Tuesday.
The city clean-up would not take any of it — it was all plaster, lath and old tile out of a 1940s bathroom. He said so on the phone before I wasted a Saturday driving over there, then sized it for weight instead of volume. That call saved me the whole weekend.
We turn nine units in the same fortnight every May and the alleys behind those blocks are tight. They staged by building, swapped on the schedule we set, and not once did a driver leave a can where the trash truck could not get past it.
Farmyard clean-up, well out past the city limits, and I expected to be told to sort it out myself. Instead I got a straight answer about who the fire district was and where the paint and the old fuel had to go instead of the box. Nothing came back rejected.
Customer words are printed as they were given to us. Any star rating or review count appearing elsewhere on this site stands as illustrative until live syndication is switched on.
Service area
Dumpster delivery across Greeley and Weld County
Trucks go out from the yard here in Greeley every working day. Open your area for the placement notes, the landmarks, and the one answer that actually changes between them — which government you are standing in. Or take the whole service area in one page.
Dumpster Rental FAQs
How fast can you deliver a dumpster in Greeley?
Usually same day if the call lands before nine, and first thing next morning if it does not. The trucks are ours and they sit at 514 14th Ave here in the city, so nothing waits on a dispatcher three states away. What is worth planning around is the rush, because it is predictable. Hail comes first — northeastern Colorado averages seven to nine hail days a year, and one storm can put an entire neighborhood of roofs into replacement inside a fortnight. And early May is the busiest fortnight of the Greeley year, because three calendars land on top of each other: the average last frost is 12 May, so outdoor demolition and landscaping begin then rather than in March; the University of Northern Colorado’s academic year ends in early May, and in a city that is 39.1 percent renter-occupied the leases turn over inside the same fortnight; and the City runs its own two-day Spring Clean-Up in that same window — residents only, photo ID at the gate, and construction and demolition debris refused outright. Mid-August is the second turn. Winter costs us days out of the routing rather than days off the calendar, since snow and ice on a drive change where a box can safely be set down and picked back up. Tell us your dates in advance and we will hold the slot.
What does a flat rate actually include?
The drop, the pull, an agreed number of days on site, and a stated tonnage allowance with the disposal already paid inside it. Nothing gets added underneath for fuel, for the environment or for administration. Two things and only two things move the figure: going through the tonnage allowance, or holding the box past the agreed period. You are told both limits on the phone, before the truck is loaded, not afterwards on an invoice.
Do I need to be home for delivery or pickup?
No, and a fair number of customers never are. Text a photo of the spot and go to work. What we need is a way in, a patch clear of parked cars and low branches, and your say-so to be on the property. Flag it at booking if the approach is a narrow drive, a rear alley behind one of the older blocks, a long pull down to a walkout, a gravel pad, or a turn tight enough that the truck has to swing wide — those change the schedule, not the price. Above all, tell us if anything underfoot is soft. Irrigated ground, a spring thaw and loose gravel will each hold a loaded truck for roughly as long as it takes to regret it. Out on county ground with a well and a septic system, mark the tank, the field and the well head so nothing gets set over them. Inside a homeowners association, say so on the first call: the association governs placement there, and it is far easier settled before the truck rolls than after. And say if the building is standing empty, because on an unattended job the hazard here is wind rather than rain, and we will walk you through keeping the load low enough to cover and weight.
Will the dumpster damage my driveway?
Every residential drop gets boards under the wheels and rails, which spreads the load rather than letting it stand on four small pads. What the ground does at depth beneath your slab is not something we will answer — that needs a geotechnical investigation, nobody has surveyed your driveway, and anybody answering it off a website is guessing at it. The surface is a different question, and the surface here has three moods. Dry, it takes a loaded container as well as ground anywhere. Soft — after an irrigation set, after a thaw, after one of the cloudbursts that drop a good share of the year in two afternoons — and several tons on four small pads will cut in and stay cut in. Frozen, it holds fine until the moment it does not. A loaded 20 yard box is several tons: concrete is the right answer and turf is not. Either way we photograph the condition as we found it. Older concrete with hairline cracking gets extra boards, and so does new flatwork, which settles under a point load rather than simply scuffing. A gravel pad is fine while it is dry, but for a day or two after heavy water we would sooner come back than cut ruts across it. The placement guide has the whole of it.
Do I need a permit for a dumpster in Greeley?
Your own driveway or your own property engages no Public Space permit at all, and that is where the overwhelming majority of our containers end up. Public ground is what changes the answer — and unlike most places, Greeley has written its answer down. The City’s published permitting guidance states that “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage.” That desk is Public Works Permits, 970-350-9881, at 2835 W. 10th Street, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., with applications through the City’s online portal. We do not publish the fee, because it is set in the City fee schedule rather than in the code and we will not print a number we cannot stand behind — ask the desk. One provision people find and misread: § 12-269(a) allows trash containers on the right-of-way “for one 24-hour period within a seven-day period,” which is the weekly curbside rule for a household cart, not a free pass for a roll-off. Another runs the other way: § 12-269(b) requires that “all refuse and debris remaining as a result of the demolition or repair of any buildings or the erection and completion of any buildings shall be removed following substantial completion of the work.” On the fire side there is a real number rather than a rule of thumb. The City adopted the 2021 International Fire Code at § 22-454, effective 1 January 2023, and the Greeley Fire Department confirms it: “the City of Greeley and the Western Hills Fire Protection District have adopted the 2021 International Fire Code.” Greeley makes no amendment to Section 304, so the model rules apply as written — under Section 304.3 a dumpster must not be stored inside a building or placed within five feet of a combustible wall. Every roll-off we run is far over the threshold, so the answer is stable: five feet, always. Placement questions go to the Fire Prevention Bureau on (970) 350-9510. Outside the city limits it changes: on a county road it is Weld County at 1150 O Street, (970) 400-4000; the county adopts no fire code of its own, so that question goes to the local fire district; and each of the separate towns around us runs its own counter — we will tell you which one you are in and give you its number rather than assume Greeley’s rules travel. Before anything gets dug, call Colorado 811 on 811 or 800-922-1987: C.R.S. § 9-1.5-103 puts the notice at two business days minimum, excluding the day you give it; Colorado 811 asks for three; and the dig area gets marked in white before the call goes in. Requirements and fees are revised from time to time, so check with the desk before you book — or work through our permit and placement guide first.
What can I not put in the dumpster?
Wet paint, solvent, adhesive, motor oil, fuel, tar, pesticide, pool chemicals, automotive fluids, anything containing asbestos, propane and any other pressurized cylinder, batteries of every type, medical waste, and appliances holding refrigerant. Three Colorado rules deserve knowing by name. Electronics cannot be landfilled in this state at all, and have not been able to since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 — a television, a monitor or a tower needs a recycler instead. Waste tires fall under 6 CCR 1007-2, Section 10, nobody may move ten or more of them without registering with the state, and the gate refuses them anyway. They never travel with us. And yard waste carries no Colorado ban whatsoever — there is no statewide landfill prohibition, and the gates serving this county list branches and green material among what they accept — so anything you have read elsewhere about brush being barred from a container belongs to some other state. We keep it as its own clean load regardless, because the composting route is nearer and costs less. The good news on everything else is that there is a free local route: Weld County Household Hazardous Waste, 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley, (970) 400-2217, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., free to every Weld County resident at 200 pounds per household per visit, nothing over five gallons, no leaking containers and no plastic bags. It does not take electronics or appliances. Asbestos does not ride with us under any circumstances. In Colorado it is handled as air quality under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B, triggered on a single-family house at 32 square feet, 50 linear feet or a 55-gallon drum by volume, with a certified inspection ahead of the work, ten working days of notice, and notification due on any demolition whatever its size. The line is 720-507-5136. Beyond that list, an ordinary cleanout or renovation is fine. Rules do get revised, so ask before it goes in the box.
Still weighing it up?
Two minutes on the phone will beat twenty minutes of reading. Describe the job and we will size it, price it flat and put it on the board.
(970) 888-6911Helpful 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.
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