Dumpster Rental in Easton, MA

Roll-off containers for Easton homes and jobsites

Easton borders Brockton on the west, and it is in Bristol County — the third county in our service area, after Plymouth and Norfolk. The town sits in the north-eastern corner of Bristol where three counties meet, which is a neat summary of what makes this region administratively awkward. Nothing about your rubbish is governed by the county in Massachusetts; everything is governed by the town, and here you have three counties’ worth of towns inside a twenty-mile circle.

Easton is also the handsomest place we work. The Ames family built the shovel works here from 1803, made the tools that dug the transcontinental railroad, and then spent the proceeds commissioning H.H. Richardson: the Ames Free Library and Oakes Ames Memorial Hall in North Easton are among the buildings that made his name, and the old railroad station now holds the historical society. Stonehill College sits on Washington Street with its own campus calendar and its own clear-out cycle. Borderland State Park takes up a large piece of the northern edge. Around all of that is a town of villages — North Easton, South Easton, Eastondale, Furnace Village, Easton Center — rather than one continuous built-up area.

The building stock runs from genuine early housing near the villages, through the Ames-era workers’ housing, to a very large amount of late twentieth-century and recent subdivision work on what was farm and woodland. On the outer roads, septic systems and private wells are the normal arrangement rather than the exception, and that changes where a container can safely be set down. Everything, old or new, sits over four-foot footings because the frost line is 48 inches, and a full basement follows almost automatically. The result is that an Easton cleanout produces the same thing an old Brockton two-family does — a cellar full of forty years of accumulation — just spread across a bigger lot.

Easton has no municipal transfer station.

What we know about working in Easton

The absence of a town facility is the practical starting point: for anything larger than the household stream, the route out of Easton is a container to a permitted processor. The second practical point is the ground. On the outer roads a long unpaved drive over a septic field is common, and in March and April, when the frost is leaving 48 inches of soil, a surface that carried a car all winter will not carry a loaded roll-off truck. Tell us where the tank, the field and the well head are, and if there is a paved apron anywhere we will use it. We put protection boards under the rails on any finished surface. On the historic side of town, the North Easton village buildings are close-packed and the approaches are narrow, and we would rather scout a set-down than guess at it. For an older building coming apart anywhere in Easton, the sequence is: licensed asbestos survey under 310 CMR 7.15 first, demolition dust notification on form AQ 06 under 310 CMR 7.09 where it applies — ten working days, exempt under twenty dwelling units — and only then the container. Asbestos-containing material cannot go in any box of ours at any time, and the owner-occupied single-family carve-out does not cover taking off more than a hundred square feet of exterior cementitious shingles, which is exactly the situation on some of the older siding jobs here. Dig Safe on 811 before any excavation, and the fire chief’s permit under 527 CMR 1.00 for any container over six cubic yards left overnight, ten feet clear of combustible walls.

• CountyBristol County
• Distance from our yard8 miles south-west of our Montello Street yard
• Main routesBelmont Street west out of Brockton toward the North Easton line
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Belmont Street west out of Brockton is the short line to the North Easton end, around twenty minutes. For South Easton and Eastondale we take Route 24 south and come off at Route 106 heading west, and Route 138 south from the Stoughton side serves the western half of the town. Route 106 west through West Bridgewater covers the southern corner. None of these are long runs but Easton is spread out, so which village you are in matters more than the mileage. Before we book: the address and village, whether the property is on septic and where the field and well sit, the drive surface and width, overhead clearance, and whether the load is demolition debris, household clear-out or brush.

Routes we run: Belmont Street west out of Brockton toward the North Easton line, Route 24 south to the Route 106 exit, then west into South Easton and Eastondale, Route 138 south from Stoughton for the western side of the town, Route 106 west through West Bridgewater for the southern end.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Easton

On a private driveway in Easton the placement question is not a city one, it is a state fire code one, and that surprises nearly everybody. 527 CMR 1.00, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Fire Safety Code, Table 1.12.8.5 lists “rubbish containers > 6 cubic yards” as a permitted activity, with the head of the fire department as the issuing authority. Every roll-off we run is over six cubic yards, so a permit from the local fire chief applies to a container left overnight anywhere in Massachusetts, on private property as much as on public. The exemption is narrow: §1.12.8.5.1 excuses a container delivered and removed within a single business day, and §1.12.8.5.2 requires the container to be marked with the name and emergency telephone number of the company, which ours are. The placement rules Massachusetts fire departments publish under NFPA 1 Chapter 19 are stricter than the national ones most guides copy: at least 10 feet from combustible walls, openings or overhangs — not the 5 feet in the International Fire Code — no closer than 20 feet to an intersection, no closer than 10 feet to a hydrant, and where the box sits beside a building, the top of it at least 5 feet below any window. It must not block egress or fire-apparatus access, or sit under a fire escape, and no flammable or combustible liquids go in it. Because the permit is issued locally, the answer follows the address rather than the county: it is the fire department covering Easton you are asking, and it is a short call. In Brockton that is Fire Prevention on 508-583-2933. For a container that has to sit in the public way there is no published City of Brockton container permit — the DPW publishes a Street Opening Permit and a Public Works Construction License, which cover street openings and driveway cuts rather than obstructions — so start with DPW Engineering on 508-580-7139 and ask. Sidewalks, hydrants and fire lanes stay clear either way. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run, and both are state rules rather than local ones. The first is asbestos, and Massachusetts splits it between two agencies. MassDEP holds the air-quality side: 310 CMR 7.15 requires a licensed inspector to survey any building with suspect asbestos-containing material before demolition or renovation, and the separate construction and demolition dust notification is 310 CMR 7.09, form AQ 06 — ten working days ahead, exempt under 20 dwelling units, $100. Licensing of asbestos contractors, supervisors, workers and inspectors belongs to the Department of Labor Standards under 454 CMR 28.00, not to MassDEP. The owner-occupied single-family carve-out does not cover taking down more than 100 square feet of exterior cement-asbestos shingle, which is a real trap on an older Easton siding or roofing job. We cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. Anything built before 1978 also carries lead paint, and the Massachusetts Lead Law sits on top of the federal RRP rule, administered by the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program on (800) 532-9571. The second rule is the disposal ban list, which is the longest in the country: 310 CMR 19.017 bans leaves, yard waste, metal, asphalt pavement, brick and concrete, clean gypsum wallboard, cathode ray tubes, mattresses and textiles among others, from transfer as well as from burial, and both the generator and the hauler are liable. That is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote, and it is not fussiness. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Dig Safe on 811 or 888-344-7233, as M.G.L. c.82 §40 requires, with enforcement by the Department of Public Utilities Pipeline Safety Division on (617) 305-3537. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, drop-off and bulk-item details are published by the City of Brockton.

The ground is the other local variable, and here it is the frost line that decides both the container size and the approach. Massachusetts sets a 48-inch frost depth statewide, so footings in Easton reach four feet regardless of what sits on top — and once the hole is that deep, a full basement costs almost nothing more, which is why the pre-war housing here is essentially all full-basement. Two practical consequences follow. A cleanout starts a floor lower than a sizing guide written for the south would assume: the basement and the attic are the job, and what comes up the bulkhead stairs is storm windows, paint tins, furniture, a workbench and thirty years of boxes. And frost heave, the spring thaw and plain groundwater keep the heavy work coming — footing and foundation spoil, broken concrete and brick out of a cellar floor or a front walk, plaster off a gutted two-family, and wet basement contents after water has come in. All of that is heavy for its volume, so it rides in a small container, often in two hauls rather than one big box. Access moves with the season as well: snowbanks and the plough windrow narrow a drive that took a 30 yard in October, and on the gravel and dirt approaches out on the rural edges we would rather move you a day than leave ruts through soft spring ground. Where it all ends up is the part people assume and get wrong. There is no landfill and no municipal transfer station in Brockton. A mixed demolition load is perfectly legal in one box — you do not have to sort it on the job site — but it has to go to a permitted C&D processing facility held to the state Minimum Performance Standard, 20 percent diversion through 2025 and 2026, rising to 25 percent by 2030, and the one thing to keep out of the load is clean gypsum wallboard, which has to be removed before transfer. Clean metal and clean wood are worth separating for the same reason. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in a container: Brockton residents take those to the Recycle Depot, 300 Oak Hill Way, Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 3:00pm, which handles paint and household chemicals 1 April to 31 October only and runs a free Paint Swap Shed — it is residents-only, and it takes no construction debris. Every town around us answers this differently, because Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns and no county layer above them doing waste, so the answer changes at the town line rather than the county line.

Sizes we deliver to Easton