Construction bin rentalFrom $650, before HST

A bin holding one material and nothing else is a different product from a bin holding everything. The receiving facility prices them differently, and that is what drives the decision.

Clean inert material — concrete, brick, block, soil with nothing else in it — can be crushed and reused. A facility charges less to take it. Mixed construction debris has to be sorted or landfilled, and it costs more. On a breakout specifically, Concrete disposal works through what the slab will weigh.

The catch is that "clean" is all or nothing. One sheet of drywall in a bin of clean concrete reclassifies the whole load at the gate, where the facility inspects what comes off the truck. The charge lands on the bin, not on the sheet that caused it.

What counts as contamination is stricter than most people expect. Timber, drywall, plastic sheeting, insulation and general rubbish all break a clean load. Soil with concrete is usually acceptable, but that is worth asking about rather than assuming. Earth dug out of the ground raises a separate question again, because the province regulates where it ends up: Soil and fill disposal covers that. Which produces the counter-intuitive answer. On a job generating both kinds at once, two bins can cost less than one. The clean concrete goes in its own container and is tipped — unloaded at the receiving facility — cheaply; the mixed material goes in another. The full fee list sits on Rental agreement and fees.

Running two bins is less awkward than it sounds. They do not both need to be on site at once. A clean concrete bin can come and go during breakout, while the mixed bin stays for the rest of the job.

Which settles the combination question rather than leaving it to the gate, and the answer is firm. Concrete and soil do not travel together, and nor does anything else dropped into a container sold as clean. A load found mixed is not collected at all, and a bin already filled that way carries a charge on top, named on the fee list and quoted for the job. That is deliberately severe: the alternative is the whole container reclassified as garbage at the gate.

What may go in the mixed container is broader than most crews expect, and the exceptions are mostly not Big Bin’s rules at all — they are the receiving facility’s. Paint, solvents, batteries, propane cylinders, tires, electronics and asbestos each run on their own stream at a regional waste site, with their own limits or their own refusal, whoever hauled them there.

A delivery needs more room than the bin ends up occupying. On a working site that is easy to get wrong, because the space looks free on the day you order.

What a delivery needs from the ground — the straight run, the overhead room, the surface — is the same on any site. What changes on a build is everything around it.

The part specific to a build is timing. A bin cannot go where a trade needs to work next week, and moving one after it is down is a truck visit rather than a shove. Think about the delivery route for materials as well: a bin placed for the strip-out can block the run for the framing package.

There is also the question of who else needs the ground. A container sitting for the length of a job occupies that space for weeks. On a tight site that is often the space a delivery wants, or where the scaffold goes up.

And the constraint moves as the job does. A placement that works during strip-out can be the wrong one once the scaffold is up or the driveway is being poured. It is worth walking the sequence before the first delivery rather than after the third.

Start from the container. The largest is 7' × 20' × 7'6" — height, then length, then width — and all three are listed on Bin size guide. Mark that outline on the ground, then keep walking: a delivery wants more room than the box ends up occupying, and the facts table gives the figures.

Putting the container on the street instead of the site is a municipal question, at a fee the city sets. Applying is the site’s job as things stand: the permit stays with whoever is renting, and the company does not file it — an arrangement the business may change later, and has not. Settle it before the delivery is booked rather than on the morning. How a truck places a container is on Roll-off bins explained.

A bin on a build is billed as a cycle, not as a rental period. The truck delivers, the crew fills, the truck takes the load away and disposes of it. On a job that runs, those three steps repeat.

So a six-month build is not a single rental with a long tail. Each fill is its own haul and is billed as one, which is why a per-haul figure tells you more than a daily rate.

A build usually buys two differently-priced products without noticing. Strip-out, demolition and fit-out waste is billed on a tonnage: the container and its two truck trips, an amount of weight included, and a rate for every tonne beyond it — so the advertised figure holds only while a load stays under that amount. Clean concrete and clean fill are billed as one complete haul, with no tonnage in the figure and a fill line where the allowance would be.

That matters most on a site running breakout beside strip-out, because the two containers standing next to each other are not on the same bill at all. On the tonnage half, a cheap base with a thin allowance can work out dearer than a fuller one on dense material.

Ordering opens at 6:00 AM on weekdays, which is when site decisions get made.

The pricing page sets out how both shapes fit together: What a bin costs. What repeat buyers get is on Bin rental for contractors. And Get a quote starts one.