Dumpster Rental in Randolph, MA

Roll-off containers for Randolph homes and jobsites

Randolph is a Norfolk County town of around twenty thousand people, seven miles north of the yard, and it is the single best illustration in our service area of why you cannot write one set of rules for Massachusetts. Brockton runs contractor curbside collection with pay bags for overflow. Whitman sends its residents an annual trash bill. West Bridgewater runs a transfer station on a sticker. Randolph does something different again: a drop-off Recycling and Yard Waste Center at 6 Carlino Way, open on alternate Saturdays only, from April to mid-November, with a 50 dollar annual yard waste permit — 25 dollars for seniors and veterans — per-item fees for electronics, televisions, tyres and propane, and no commercial or hazardous waste accepted at all.

Read that twice, because the implications are large. If your Randolph project falls outside the alternate-Saturday window, or is commercial, or is construction debris, or is simply more than a car boot can hold, the municipal route does not exist for you. That is not a complaint about the town. It is a budget decision that 351 Massachusetts municipalities each make for themselves, with no county authority above them doing solid waste at all.

The town itself was set off from Braintree in 1793 and was a serious boot-making place by 1850, which left it a stock of nineteenth-century frame housing near the centre alongside the much larger post-war build-out that followed. Stetson Hall dates to 1842, the Turner Free Library to 1875, and the Blue Hills reservation and the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at Ponkapoag sit on the northern edge. Practically, that means we see two kinds of job: older houses with plaster, knob-and-tube and full basements coming apart room by room, and mid-century capes, ranches and split-levels on their second or third round of kitchens, baths and roofs. Both sit over 48-inch footings and both have a cellar full of things nobody has looked at since the 1980s.

What we know about working in Randolph

Plan around the Saturday. The Carlino Way centre is genuinely useful for household recycling and for yard waste if you hold the annual permit, but it is a drop-off on alternate Saturdays between April and mid-November, it is not a construction and demolition outlet, and it takes nothing commercial. So a kitchen, a bathroom, a roof, a cellar clear-out, a landlord turnover or a deck teardown is a container job by default. Yard waste is worth a separate word because Massachusetts has banned leaves from disposal since 1991 and yard waste generally since 1992: it cannot be landfilled or burned as rubbish, it has to be composted or otherwise diverted, and that is a statewide rule rather than a town preference. If your spring clear-out is bigger than the permit and the Saturday can absorb, we will take it as a clean green load and route it accordingly, but it has to stay clean — leaf and limb only, no bags of household rubbish mixed in, or the whole load loses its destination. For placement: much of Randolph has decent drives and reasonable aprons, and the older centre streets are tighter. We put boards down on any paved surface. Under 527 CMR 1.00 any container over six cubic yards left overnight needs a permit from the fire chief, with ten feet from combustible walls and openings, ten feet from a hydrant and twenty feet from an intersection. If a project involves excavation, call Dig Safe on 811 first; if it involves demolition of an older building, the asbestos survey under 310 CMR 7.15 comes before the container, not after.

• CountyNorfolk County
• Distance from our yard7 miles north of our Montello Street yard
• Main routesRoute 24 north to the Route 139 exit, then west into the middle of Randolph
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Route 24 north to the Route 139 exit is our usual run and puts a truck in the middle of Randolph in about twenty-five minutes. Main Street north through Avon is the surface alternative and is often no slower off-peak. Once we are in the town, Route 139 carries us east and west, and for the north-western corner we sometimes come across on Route 27. Traffic on the Route 24 northbound exits in the morning is the main variable, so we prefer to book Randolph deliveries early or mid-afternoon. Before we book we want the address, whether the box is going on the drive or in the street, drive width and surface, overhead clearance, whether the load is clean green waste or mixed debris, and whether anything commercial is involved.

Routes we run: Route 24 north to the Route 139 exit, then west into the middle of Randolph, Main Street north through Avon and on toward the Randolph line, Route 139 east and west across the town for anything off the centre, Route 24 north to Route 27 west when the northern exits are backed up.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Randolph

On a private driveway in Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph