Dumpster Rental in Greeley, CO

Roll-off containers for Greeley homes and jobsites

Greeley is the Weld County seat and a home rule city wholly inside Weld County. One city, one county — but the county in question is the one that runs the whole eastern half of this service area, and its offices are here. Weld County administration is at 1150 O Street, the county switchboard is (970) 400-4000, and the county’s northern household hazardous waste facility is at 1311 North 17th Avenue. If you live anywhere in Weld County, some of your answers are in Greeley whether you live here or not.

Greeley is home rule, which under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution means it draws its powers from its own charter and can legislate in local matters beyond state statute. A home rule city of this size is the single most likely place in this service area to have its own hauler requirements, container rules and right-of-way permit process. We could not verify what the City of Greeley requires, and we are not going to assume Johnstown’s ordinance travels, because it does not: Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35 governs Johnstown’s public property and nothing else. Greeley311 is (970) 351-5311 and City Hall is at 1200 11th Avenue; the city’s site is the place to start. Ask them about a street placement, then call us.

The county side is where a Greeley page can be genuinely specific. Weld County provides no residential waste collection — its health department’s role is described as interacting with compost and solid waste facilities through complaints, site inspections and investigations. What it does run for residents is the two household hazardous waste facilities and a seasonal disposal voucher. The Greeley facility at 1311 North 17th Avenue is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; the Dacono facility at 5500 Highway 52 runs Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9 to 4. Both are free to Weld County residents, capped at 200 pounds per household per visit, with nothing in containers over five gallons, nothing leaking and nothing in plastic bags; business waste is by appointment and is charged. Electronics and appliances are not accepted at either. The number is (970) 400-2217. There is also a seasonal one-ton landfill voucher, one per Weld address.

Greeley is also where the county’s two defining industries are most visible. Weld County ranks first in Colorado and eleventh in the United States for total agricultural sales — about $2.38 billion in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, across 3,881 farms and 1,987,213 acres, with 545,480 cattle and calves and top crops of forage, corn for silage and wheat. And the county produces more than 80 percent of Colorado’s oil and gas according to federal energy data, which is what makes Colorado the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the country. The regulator is the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission on (303) 894-2100. We are a roll-off business and oilfield waste is a regulated stream handled by specialist companies — it is not what goes in our containers. But the density of wells, flowlines and gathering lines in this county is a very good reason to take Colorado 811 seriously before you dig, because a rural property may have lines across it the owner has never seen.

The climate numbers everyone quotes for this market come from here too: the Greeley–Weld County Airport NOAA station records a 1991–2020 normal of 15.34 inches of precipitation a year and a mean temperature of 47.1 °F, with an average last spring frost around 12 May and first fall frost around 8 October. Fifteen inches is roughly a third of what the southeastern United States gets, and the growing season starts in May rather than March. Spring cleanup season here begins late and ends with a hard October frost.

And in September 2013, the South Platte and the Cache la Poudre flooded low-lying neighborhoods in Greeley and Evans, forcing evacuations in the early hours of 13 September. That is the flood people here mean.

What we know about working in Greeley

Start with what is settled. On private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. On a public street inside the city, ask the city; Greeley is home rule and we did not verify its container rules. On a county road outside the city, Weld County Public Works is on (970) 400-4000, and the county requires permits for construction activities within county rights-of-way, with language reaching occupation of them — but the county’s material does not name dumpsters, so the honest line is that the language is broad and a call is warranted. If you want the hauler-licensing question answered at county level, Weld County Planning and Development Services is (970) 400-6100; the county’s waste page refers the question there rather than answering it, and we could not establish whether unincorporated Weld licenses or franchises haulers at all. We will not claim it does or does not.

The fire code here is the county’s most surprising structural fact and it is worth restating on the county-seat page. Weld County enforces no fire code. Its own ordinance says the International Fire Code “shall apply only when adopted by a local fire district and shall not be enforced under this Building Code.” That is why the county’s 2024 code package, effective 15 June 2026, contains no IFC. Inside the City of Greeley the city’s own adoption governs — which we did not verify — and on unincorporated ground the fire protection district is the authority. Whichever it is, the container rule is five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines: 2024 IFC § 304.3.5 at 1.5 cubic yards, § 304.3.4 at 1.0 cubic yard with a noncombustible exception, and every roll-off is far above both.

Because Greeley is a county seat with real old housing as well as new, the pre-1978 and pre-1989 questions come up more here than in the new subdivisions along the interstate. Colorado is not authorized by EPA for the lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule — the federal agency administers it here directly, so a firm doing compensated work that disturbs paint in pre-1978 housing certifies with EPA, not with a state agency. Asbestos is an air quality matter under CDPHE’s Air Pollution Control Division, Regulation 8, Part B. In a single-family home the trigger levels are 32 square feet, 50 linear feet of pipe, or the volume of a 55-gallon drum — far tighter than the commercial numbers, and Colorado applies them to single-family homes explicitly, which many states do not. Notification runs ten working days, an inspection by a certified asbestos building inspector is required before renovation or demolition, and any demolition requires notification regardless of size. Buildings constructed after 12 October 1988 with documentation are exempt from the survey requirement. The asbestos line is 720-507-5136. Asbestos-containing material never goes in a rented container, and the nearest landfill refuses friable asbestos outright.

On the box itself: electronics have been banned from Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303, and the county’s own household hazardous waste facilities do not take them either, so they need a dedicated recycler. Waste tires go to a tire route rather than a landfill, and state rules require registration to transport ten or more. There is no Colorado yard-waste landfill ban — the landfills serving Weld accept yard waste and tree branches, and A-1 Organics composts on 970-454-3492. Everything else is set facility by facility in each landfill’s approved operating plan, which is why we ask what is going in.

One more county-level fact that earns its place on a Greeley page: a Colorado landfill is authorized by the county, not simply by the state. Under C.R.S. § 30-20-102, an operator must first obtain a Certificate of Designation from the governing body having jurisdiction, and the Weld County landfills operate under Certificates of Designation issued by Weld County. It is a distinctly Colorado structure, it is the reason disposal capacity here is a county matter, and it attaches to disposal facilities rather than to trucks. We make no claim about our own status in either direction on a web page — ask us on the phone.

• RegionWeld County
• Distance from our yardEast of the yard, the Weld County seat and the biggest city we run to
• Main routesUS 34 east from the interchange straight into the city
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Greeley is a straight run east of the yard on US 34, and it is the biggest city we serve, which means the delivery problems are more varied than anywhere else on this list. The older grid west and north of downtown has narrow drives, mature street trees and older service drops, and overhead is the usual constraint — a hoist needs better than twenty feet of clear air above the rails to stand a box up, and a wire across the apron will stop us where a tight turn would not. The mid-century neighborhoods generally have a single-width drive with the garage close to the house, which is where the five-foot fire separation from the eave line decides the placement. The newer outer subdivisions are easy geometrically and risky underfoot: new sod, shallow irrigation lines, and streets on a base course that has not taken a final lift. Commercial work along the corridors is a different job again — parking lot placements need a clear swing for the hoist, a surface that will take the point load of the rails, and a spot that does not block a fire lane or a service door. A 20-yard container wants roughly sixty feet of straight approach and about eleven feet of working width; a 30 or a 40 wants more of both. Tell us the surface and the last hundred feet when you call (970) 427-0341.

Routes we run: US 34 east from the interchange straight into the city, Colorado 257 north and east through Windsor, the Weld county road grid east from Milliken, US 85 for the south side of the city and the Evans line, the county roads north for the Lucerne side.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Greeley

Start with the question that decides everything else: which government are you standing in. Greeley makes that easier than most of this service area, and it is worth saying plainly: Greeley is a home rule city lying wholly inside Weld County — and as the county seat, the desk everybody else in the county ends up calling too. One town, one county, one permit desk. That is not the normal case here. Five of the municipalities we serve — Johnstown, Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont — straddle a county line, and on those the answer to a permit question changes with the street. In Greeley it does not. You can stop at two desks: the town for anything inside the town limits, and Weld County for anything outside them.

The status is not decoration either. A home rule municipality draws its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and can legislate in local matters beyond what state statute prescribes; a statutory town works from state statute. The home rule places are the ones most likely to have written their own hauler licensing, container ordinances and right-of-way permits — Johnstown, which is home rule, has done exactly that, and we quote its ordinance below because it is Johnstown’s and it is written down. We have not read Greeley’s code, and we will not print a Greeley rule, fee, tier or turnaround that we have not read. Ask Greeley directly on (970) 351-5311. Start at greeleyco.gov. Be wary of anybody who answers that question for you without naming the section.

What does not change at a town line is everything above it and below it. I-25 is CDOT’s, and so is every US and state route through this market — US 34, Colorado 60, Colorado 56 and Colorado 66 among them — whichever municipality they run through. Outside the town limits the section-line grid belongs to Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000. Nor does the statutory locate call change, nor Colorado’s disposal bans, nor the fact that Weld County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county. And because Colorado has no statewide residential building code, every code sentence needs a jurisdiction attached: Weld County’s 2024 package takes effect 15 June 2026, Larimer County’s 1 January 2026, and what Greeley has adopted on its own timetable we did not verify. Give us the address and we will tell you which owner you are dealing with before we load a truck.

Now the part most of our competitors skip. Start with the line that is safe everywhere: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. Not the municipality’s and not the county’s. On your own driveway in Greeley the constraints we know of are the fire clearance, your covenants, a landlord’s consent and whether the approach will carry a loaded truck, and the driveway is where we would rather set the box in any case.

If any part of it will sit in the street, the sidewalk or the verge, that is right-of-way, and inside an incorporated place the right-of-way belongs to the municipality rather than to the county. Greeley runs its own permit counter, so ask there before the truck comes. We did not verify Greeley’s ordinances, and we will not print a fee, a tier or a turnaround for Greeley that we have not read. What we can show you is what the sequence looks like where it is written down. A few miles away, Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35 provides that “no person shall place, store or maintain a dumpster on any public property unless expressly authorized in writing by the Town,” with placement in violation “considered a nuisance,” and § 11-23 requires a Town right-of-way permit for work of any kind in the public right-of-way. That is Johnstown’s ordinance and it stops at Johnstown’s town line. Different government, different paperwork, same truck. Ask Greeley directly on (970) 351-5311. Start at greeleyco.gov. Outside the town limits the county is the desk: Weld County Public Works on (970) 400-4000. And whether or not permission is involved, call Colorado 811 before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled.

The driveway carries one rule of its own and it is a fire rule. There is no statewide fire code doing this job in Colorado, so the edition depends on who adopted it, and the one we can name is the 2024 International Fire Code as adopted by the Town of Johnstown. In that edition § 304.3.5 keeps dumpsters and containers of 1.5 cubic yards or more out of buildings and at least five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines, with no exception; the adjacent § 304.3.4 applies the same five feet from 1.0 cubic yard, with an exception where the container itself is noncombustible. Both sections exist and neither one is “the” threshold, which is where most of the copy on the internet goes wrong — along with a “ten feet from the building” rule of thumb that is nobody’s code at all. It does not matter here anyway: every roll-off we run is many times over both figures, so the answer never changes. Five feet, always, and it is measured from the eave line, not just from the wall. On a Greeley lot with a deep eave and a narrow side yard that is a real measurement, and we take it before the rails come off the truck. And note where you take that question out here. Weld County enforces no fire code at all — its ordinance says the International Fire Code shall apply only when adopted by a local fire district and shall not be enforced under the county’s Building Code — so on unincorporated Weld ground the fire protection district is the authority, not the county, and district lines do not follow town lines. Front Range Fire Rescue takes placement questions for Johnstown and Milliken on 970-587-4464.

Last, the approach. To swing a box off the rails we want about 60 feet of straight, roughly 11 feet of working width and 20-plus feet of clear overhead. What fails that test in Greeley is rarely the highway; it is almost always the last hundred feet. This is flat, irrigated high plains rather than mountain country — our own ground out at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet — so a truck here runs a section-line grid and a four-lane interstate instead of switchbacks, and the things that go wrong are different ones. In the newer subdivisions it is fresh sod, a shallow irrigation line beside the drive and a street still on base course without its final asphalt lift. On acreage it is a quarter mile of gravel lane that carries a pickup all year and ruts badly under a loaded truck in a spring thaw. In the older grids it is a low service drop and a mature shade tree over the only flat spot — a gap that looks wide open at eye level can be closed at twenty feet. Walk it, look up, and tell us what you see.

Two more layers reach every job we run, and neither of them starts at a local counter. The first is what may lawfully go in the box. Solid waste in this state is CDPHE’s, under the solid waste regulations at 6 CCR 1007-2, and the structure is not the one people bring with them from the Southeast. A Colorado landfill is authorized by a Certificate of Designation issued by the county under C.R.S. § 30-20-102, with state review — a county instrument, and one that attaches to disposal facilities rather than to haulers. Beyond the statutory bans, what a landfill will take is set facility by facility in its own approved operating plan rather than by a statewide list, which is exactly why we ask what is going in the box before we quote a job instead of after.

The bans themselves are shorter than newcomers expect and they run the opposite way from the Southeast. Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban. The landfills serving this area accept yard waste and brush, and A-1 Organics composts green material on 970-454-3492 if you would rather route it that way. What is banned outright is electronics, kept out of every Colorado landfill since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 — no televisions, monitors or computers in the container. Waste tires are refused at the gate by the local operators, and state rules require registration to transport ten or more, so tires never go in our boxes. Paint, solvents, fuel, automotive fluids, batteries, propane cylinders and pool chemicals stay out as well; those are a household hazardous waste run, not a container load.

Asbestos is the hard stop. We do not accept asbestos in our containers. In Colorado it is an air quality matter rather than a solid waste one, which surprises people: the CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division runs it under Regulation 8, Part B. In a single-family home the trigger is 32 square feet or 50 linear feet — far tighter than the federal commercial numbers — notification runs ten working days, the permit fee is published at $60 to $180, and a demolition requires notification regardless of size. The asbestos line is 720-507-5136. None of that is our filing to make, but all of it sits ahead of the container and we would rather book around it than deliver into a stop-work order.

The other date is 1978, which puts a job under the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule — and here Colorado is the opposite of most states people move from. Colorado is not authorized by EPA to run the RRP program, so a firm working on pre-1978 housing certifies with EPA directly rather than with a state agency. How often that bites depends on where you are standing: in Johnstown, only about one home in ten predates 1980 and the median year built is 2007, so RRP is concentrated in the old core rather than spread across the market. Then, before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled, call Colorado 811 on 811 or 800-922-1987. The statute is C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5, and the notice period is two business days, not counting the day of notice. Be aware that Colorado 811’s own homepage says three business days while the statute and the site’s interior pages say two — give yourself the longer of the two and you are safe either way. White-line the dig area first. Setting a box on a driveway does not trigger the call; your project does — footings, fence posts, a stump, a sewer lateral. Our permit and placement guide walks the whole sequence in order.

The ground under Greeley decides most of the rest, and almost every instinct carried in from a wetter market is wrong here. This is irrigated high plains: our own ground at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet, and precipitation across this market runs about 15.34 inches a year on the 1991–2020 normals at Greeley — roughly a third of what the Southeast gets. We are not going to tell you what the soil does underneath, because we did not establish it for this ground and it is not the sort of thing to guess at in print. What we will tell you is how the surface behaves under a truck, because that is what we deal with. A loaded 20 yard box is several tons carried on four small contact points. Dry, this ground takes it. Wet — after an irrigation set, a cloudburst or a spring thaw — it ruts, and a quarter mile of lane that carries a pickup all year will not carry us. So the driveway is the surface and the lawn is not, plywood or timber mats go under every wheel and under both rails on every placement, all year round, and after a wet stretch we would rather move a date than tear up two hundred feet of drive.

The houses match the climate rather than the map. Basements are ordinary here, which changes a cleanout more than it changes a price: stairs mean hand-carrying, and a smaller box parked close to the walkout beats a bigger one parked out of the way. Both counties publish a 30-inch frost line, so footings, water services and sewer laterals sit at least that deep, and a trench that would be shallow somewhere warmer is a real excavation here. Spoil is the densest material that comes off a residential site, which is why a footing repair or a sewer lateral is a 10 yard loaded low conversation rather than a 20 yard one. The season starts later than newcomers plan for as well: the average last spring frost is around 12 May. One adjacent question comes up often enough while a house is open to be worth answering, and we will answer it the way EPA does rather than by naming a number off a map that gave us two different readings: “Homes with elevated levels of radon have been found in all three zones. All homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.”

The vintage of the housing is the part that surprises people who know this corridor only from the interstate, and it cuts the work in two. In Johnstown, whose mailing address our yard uses, the median year built is 2007 and 71.8 percent of the housing went up in 2000 or later; only about one home in ten predates 1980, concentrated in the old Parish Avenue and Main Street core from the sugar and dairy era, where pre-1978 lead paint and older asbestos are live questions. Everywhere else the jobs are new-build cleanup, first remodels and hail roofs. The growth behind that is real and it is fast: Johnstown went from 17,303 people at the 2020 census to 22,433 by the 2025 estimate, a 29.5 percent gain that put it tenth in the nation for growth among places of 20,000 or more in 2024–25, with 528 single-family permits in 2025. Weld County as a whole went from 328,981 to 378,426 over the same five years. Those are Census numbers, and they are why new-construction cleanup is a steady service line here rather than an afterthought.

Then the weather, and here there is one hazard that matters more than all the others put together. Hail is the anchor job. This corridor takes seven to nine hail days a year and is the most hail-prone stretch of the United States. Roof tear-off is what this market buys containers for, and it does not arrive evenly — it arrives in bursts, in the week after a storm, when every roofer in the corridor calls on the same morning. If you have just been hit, call early; that is the honest advice. Wind is the second one. Chinook downslope windstorms come off the mountains hard enough that Front Range gusts have been recorded as high as 137 mph, and the design wind speed in Weld County is 115 mph. An empty container is a sail and a loose tarp is a kite, so we weight what we cover and we would rather set a box against a windbreak than out in the open. Weld County has more recorded tornadoes than any other county in the United States. Watches and warnings for both counties come from NWS Denver/Boulder on 303-494-3210. An open container left uncovered through a heavy storm fills with water and grit, and that is weight you pay us to haul. Tarp it, or ask us for one.

Where all of it ends up is the local detail we like best, because the lawful routes out of a Greeley project close one at a time and none of them close because we say so. Neither county collects residential waste, so there is no county truck to compare us with. A municipal cart, where a town provides one, is a cart on a schedule and is not built for shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete or framing lumber. Electronics may not go to a Colorado landfill at all. Tires are refused at the gate. And beyond the statutory bans, each landfill’s own approved operating plan decides the rest. The one place the Southeast’s habits genuinely do not transfer is green waste: Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban, so clean woody debris has more than one lawful route here — the landfills take it, and A-1 Organics composts it on 970-454-3492. Keep it in a load of its own and you keep that choice. Everything else rides to a permitted facility in one of our boxes, which is the argument for a container stated by somebody other than us.

Collection in Greeley is the city’s own business on its own limits. It is not Weld County’s and it is not Johnstown’s, and we are not going to publish Greeley’s cart rules, bulky-item rules or collection day from memory. Ask Greeley directly on (970) 351-5311. Start at greeleyco.gov. What is constant right across this market is the part that matters to us: no residential cart program anywhere here is built for construction and demolition debris. Shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete and framing lumber are ours to handle whichever side of a municipal line the house sits on.

Underneath the town sits the county, and the county layer surprises people who have moved in from somewhere with a weekly truck. Weld County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county. What exists instead is drop-off: Weld County runs two household hazardous waste facilities — 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley and 5500 Highway 52 in Dacono — free to Weld County residents, capped at 200 pounds a visit, on (970) 400-2217, plus a seasonal one-ton landfill voucher, one per Weld address. None of that is a curbside service and none of it takes job debris. Two things then travel with the load rather than with the address. The first is where it ends up, which is a facility permitted to receive that class of waste — a concrete tear-out and a roof tear-off do not go to the same gate. The second is what the load weighs, because disposal is charged by the ton, and that is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote it. Your side of that is telling us honestly whether the load is light and bulky or heavy and dense, since that is the difference between one haul and two. See the Colorado disposal and recycling rules for the rest.

Sizes we deliver to Greeley