Lakewood and the west metro
Yard Waste Dumpster Rental in Lakewood, CO
Branches, shrubs, sod and the stumps you finally pulled — in one container, gone this week, not hauled off one trailer at a time.
- Licensed & insured
- Same-day in many areas
- Flat-rate pricing
- Lakewood & the west metro
Yard Waste Dumpster Rental across the west Denver metro
Yards here make debris in bursts. Heavy winds or snow bring limbs down; a landscaping redo pulls out beds, shrubs, sod and mulch all at once; spring and fall cleanups fill bag after bag. In Lakewood nobody comes for it: the City runs no trash service, and the free option is narrow — one voucher per household for a load of clean woody debris at Jefferson County's Tincup Ridge SLASH yard in season, and the SLASH yards take no lumber, stumps or loose leaves. A container on the driveway takes all of it, the week it happens.
Two things shape the job. Clean green waste is worth keeping clean: household trash, plastic containers, treated lumber or chemicals mixed in turn a simple load into one nobody wants, and green waste goes to local recycling and composting facilities only when it is clean. And yard waste is bulky and light until it is not: soil, sod, wet leaves and stumps are heavy. We size for the mix.
At a glance
What you get with yard waste dumpster rental
- Tree branches and limbs, leaves, grass clippings, bushes, shrubs, hedge trimmings, soil, sod, mulch, weeds, roots and small stumps
- A 15 or 20 yard for most homes; a 10 for small cleanups and tree trimming
- Same-day or next-day in many areas when possible, depending on availability
- No bags, no trailer trips, no landfill runs
- Green waste directed to local recycling and composting facilities whenever possible
- Landscapers and contractors: scheduled service for ongoing yard waste
Storm cleanup, tree work and landscape redos
Storm cleanup is the big one. Heavy winds or snow can leave branches, damaged shrubs and scattered debris across a yard in an afternoon, and a 20 yard on the driveway takes the whole pile in one go.
Landscape and tree jobs are the planned version — shrubs and plant beds out, a tree trimmed or removed, branches and logs, fall leaves and spring maintenance, a rental home tidied or a house readied for sale. Landscapers and contractors can set up scheduled service for ongoing yard waste removal, and for mixed jobs we can recommend the right container setup.
Soil, stumps and the weight line
Branches, brush and hedge trimmings are light. Soil, sod, wet leaves, stumps and roots are not. A 20 of brush is nowhere near its weight allowance; a 20 heaped with dirt is well over it. Tell us the mix and we will size it — usually a 15 or 20 for the green waste and, if there is a lot of soil, a 10 alongside. One kind of material per load keeps the options open: clean limbs and prunings have more places to go than a mixed load, and soil and stumps travel in their own loads to a site that takes them.
Suitability
Is yard waste dumpster rental the right call?
The fastest way to get this right is to check the two lists below against what is actually in your pile.
Good fits for this service
- Storm limbs, branches and brush
- Bushes, shrubs and plant-bed removal
- Leaves, grass clippings, sod, mulch and weeds
- Small stumps and roots, cut to fit
- Soil, within the weight limit
Send these somewhere else
- Treated and pressure-treated lumber
- Household trash mixed in with the green waste
- Fertilizers, chemicals and other hazardous materials
- Plastic containers and planters
Sizing
Which container for yard waste dumpster rental?
Every size below runs on this service. Match the material first, then the volume.
- 10 Yard Dumpster — Small yard cleanups and tree trimming.
- 15 Yard Dumpster — Landscape projects and seasonal cleanup.
- 20 Yard Dumpster — Tree removal and storm cleanup.
- 30 Yard Dumpster — Large property clearing or commercial landscaping.
| Size | Dimensions | Capacity | Weight included | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Yard Dumpster | about 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high | about 3 pickup truck loads | 1–2 tons | Small kitchen and bathroom remodels, garage and single-room cleanouts, roofing projects with shingles, and concrete, tile, asphalt and rock within the weight limit. |
| 15 Yard Dumpster | about 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 4–5 pickup truck loads | 2–3 tons | Multi-room and garage cleanouts, kitchen and bathroom remodels, flooring and carpet removal, roofing projects, yard cleanup and landscaping, and small deck or fence removal. |
| 20 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 6 pickup truck loads | 3–4 tons | Whole-home cleanouts, kitchen and bathroom remodels, multi-room renovations, roofing projects, large landscaping jobs and light demolition with mixed construction debris. |
| 30 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high | about 9 pickup truck loads | 4–5 tons | Multi-room and full-home renovations, estate and move-out cleanouts, office and retail remodels, light demolition and construction debris, and community or property cleanups. |
| 40 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high | about 12 pickup truck loads | 5–6 tons | Construction and demolition projects, commercial renovations, full-home remodels, warehouse and office cleanouts, commercial roofing jobs and large community or property cleanups. |
Yard waste — the local specifics
Every city runs its own program, and none of them is built for a whole yard at once. Lakewood has no City yard waste collection that we found; its woody debris program gives each household a voucher for one free load — up to a $24 value — at Jefferson County's Tincup Ridge SLASH yard, 101 Rooney Rd, open Fridays to Sundays in season, and the county's SLASH yards take tree limbs, prunings and pine cones but not construction materials, lumber, stumps or detached leaves. Denver residents must remove tree stumps and any branches over four inches in diameter or four feet long themselves, and Denver's large-item pickup takes no unbundled branches, stumps, dirt or sod. Westminster runs tree-limb recycling on set Saturdays from March to November, with no construction materials. A container is for the pile that is bigger, heavier or sooner than any of that. The what can and cannot go in guide explains what has to stay out of a green load and where it goes instead.
Talk to a real person
Need yard waste dumpster rental in Lakewood?
Call (720) 370-8548, describe the job in a sentence, and you will have a flat price and a delivery window before you hang up.
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Answers
Yard Waste Dumpster Rental — your questions answered
Do I need to bag or bundle the brush?
No. Load it as it comes — no bags, no bundles. The only things that matter are keeping it below the top edge and keeping household trash and chemicals out of it.
Can I put dirt in a yard waste dumpster?
Yes — soil, sod and mulch are accepted. Soil is heavy, so it goes in a smaller box or its own load within the weight limit. Tell us it is part of the job when you book and we will plan the loads.
Can I put a whole tree in?
Cut to fit, yes — limbs, logs, branches and small stumps are fine. Keep everything below the top edge. Big stumps and root balls are heavy, so tell us about them.
How fast after a storm can you deliver?
Same-day or next-day in many areas, depending on availability — call early in the day. If the week after a storm is busy, we tell you honestly when to expect the container.
Do you recycle green waste?
Whenever possible. Clean green waste can go to local recycling and composting facilities rather than a landfill. Treated lumber, plastic or household trash in the box spoils that.
Service area
Yard Waste Dumpster Rental across the west Denver metro
We run roll-off containers out of our yard on Kendall Street to every town below. Many orders go out same-day depending on availability; distance and route timing decide the rest. Street placement and hauler rules differ from city to city, and each page says so plainly. If your town is not listed, call anyway.