Frequently Asked Questions

One flat number, agreed on the phone before delivery, covering the container, the agreed rental period, pickup and disposal with a stated tonnage allowance. We don't quote a bare container rate and add fees afterward — call and we'll price your specific job on that call.

Delivery, an agreed number of days with the container on your property, and pickup once you're done, all covered by the quoted price. If your job runs long, call and we'll talk through extending it before the standard period runs out.

Every rental includes a tonnage allowance sized to the container. A load that comes in heavier — common with concrete, roofing tear-offs or debris that's picked up rainwater — is charged per ton over that allowance, which is exactly why we ask what's going in the box before we quote a size.

In most cases, yes. Call before the agreed period ends and we'll extend it rather than have the container picked up mid-job.

The container and the disposal drive the price, not the label on the job. A 20 yard for a house cleanout and a 20 yard for a commercial swap-out are priced the same way — base rate, rental period and tonnage allowance.

It depends on whether your debris is dense — concrete, roofing, brick — which hits the weight allowance fast, or bulky and light — furniture, drywall, general cleanout junk — which fills the box before it gets heavy. Our size comparison page and dumpster size guide work through both scenarios, and we'll confirm the right one on the phone.

In most cases, yes, if we catch it early. Call and we'll swap the container before it's too full to move safely, rather than after.

Generally yes — a 10 or 15 yard container suits a single room, garage or basement, while a 20 yard fits a typical remodel and 30 to 40 yard containers are sized for whole-house cleanouts, new construction or larger demolition jobs. See our size comparison page for the full breakdown.

Yes. Every service we run — residential, commercial, construction, roofing, estate cleanouts and the rest — uses the same five container sizes, 10 through 40 yard. What changes between services is the sizing logic and what needs to stay out of the load, not the equipment itself.

That's normal, and it's exactly what the phone call is for. Describe the rooms, the square footage or the job in general terms, and we'll get you close — then confirm or adjust once the driver sees it in person.

It depends on where the container sits. A dumpster placed entirely on your own driveway generally needs no city permit. Placement that touches a public street or right-of-way is what triggers Clifton's rules: under the city's Chapter 209 ordinance, a container on the street cannot sit within 5 feet of a neighboring driveway, cannot take up more than a third of the street width, cannot be placed more than 24 hours before work starts or stay more than 24 hours after it finishes, and must be covered and reflectorized for night visibility. Anything beyond a simple driveway placement — or any work that touches the street itself — needs a City of Clifton Right-of-Way Permit ($75 application fee, reviewed by the City Engineer with sign-off from Public Works and the Police Traffic Division). Questions on a specific address can go to Clifton Public Works, 307 E 7th St, Clifton, NJ 07011, (973) 470-2239, dpw@cliftonnj.org, Monday–Friday 7:30am–3:30pm. We can usually keep a container entirely on the driveway, which avoids the extra paperwork altogether.

Only if the placement touches a county-maintained road rather than one of Clifton's own city streets. New Jersey has a genuine three-tier structure: Clifton's own municipal government handles its city streets and issues its own Right-of-Way permits, Passaic County's Board of County Commissioners maintains and permits work on county roads specifically, and NJDOT covers state highways. For most residential and commercial jobs in Clifton, it is the city's own process — not the county's — that applies, and we will tell you honestly which office fits your address before you book.

Each of the eleven towns we cover — Passaic and Paterson (cities); Little Falls, Lyndhurst, Bloomfield, Montclair and Nutley (townships); Woodland Park, Elmwood Park and Rutherford (boroughs) — is a full, independent New Jersey municipality with its own local government, not a branch office of Clifton or of any county. We have not catalogued a fee or process for each of the eleven individually; if your job needs street placement outside Clifton, confirm directly with that town's own clerk or public works office before you book, rather than assume Clifton's Chapter 209 process carries over.

Yes, separate from any city or county permit. Commercial solid waste haulers operating in New Jersey are required to hold NJDEP A-901 licensing — a state background-disclosure and approval process — along with vehicle waste decals from the NJDEP Vehicle Registration Unit. That is a state-level layer that sits above Clifton's own municipal registration and street-placement rules, not a substitute for them.