Roll-off boxes
Every other entry in this section is a vehicle that arrives and leaves. A roll-off is a container that is delivered and left, which makes it the only one that changes what is happening on your site while nobody is watching.
A box on your yard is an accumulation point
For non-hazardous volume a roll-off is simply a convenience. For hazardous waste it is a regulated accumulation container, and everything that applies to a drum applies to it: it must be labeled, closed when waste is not being added, marked with an accumulation start date, inspected, and moved within the time your generator category allows. A covered box left open to rain is a bigger problem than it looks, because the water becomes part of the waste and the weight becomes part of your bill. The scheduling question follows from the same fact. A box that is sized generously so it needs collecting less often is also a box that sits accumulating for longer, and the cheapest haulage interval is not always the compliant one.
What goes this way
The streams roll-off boxes handles, and what each one is under the rules — with acceptance decided by a profile rather than by a name on a drum.
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Non-regulated
Bulk non-hazardous industrial waste
Packaging, scrap, dunnage and general plant volume.
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Non-regulated
Construction and demolition debris
Unless lead paint, asbestos or contaminated media are in the scope.
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Contained-in
Contaminated debris and solids
Where the box is a regulated accumulation container with a clock attached.
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Scheduled
Turnaround and outage waste
Placed for a campaign and swapped on a planned frequency rather than on request.
When this is not the right route
The cases where roll-off boxes is not what you want, and what to use instead.
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The material is packaged in drums and ready to leave now
Go to Dry Van Tractor/Trailer -
It is bulk loose solid going out in a single movement
Go to End Dump Trailers
What you get back
The records roll-off boxes produces, and what each one is evidence of — because the liability for a waste stays with the generator from the moment it is created until it is destroyed.
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The exchange record
When each box was placed, exchanged and removed. For hazardous waste that record is your accumulation evidence, because a container on your yard has a clock on it exactly as a drum does, and days on site is the number an inspector will work out.
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Weight tickets per pull
What left in each box, which is also where rainwater in an uncovered container shows up as weight you paid to move.
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Disposal confirmation
Per load, with the manifest where the contents traveled as hazardous waste.
Who sends us this
The facility types that usually need roll-off boxes, each with its own page on what that process produces and under which codes.
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- Non-regulated
Manufacturing
- Non-hazardous industrial volume
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- Non-regulated
Shipbuilding
- Construction debris and packaging
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- K050
Refineries
- Heat exchanger bundle cleaning sludge
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- Non-regulated unless contaminated
Military
- Construction and demolition debris
Before you ask for a price
What generators ask about roll-off boxes, answered from the rules rather than from marketing copy.
For non-hazardous waste, as long as is practical. For hazardous waste the accumulation clock applies exactly as it does to a drum, so the answer depends on your generator category rather than on the haulage schedule.
Almost always worth it. Rainwater becomes part of the waste, adds weight you pay to move, and for hazardous material raises a containment question that an open box does not answer well.
Big enough to be efficient, small enough that it is emptied within the time you are allowed to accumulate. Those two pull in opposite directions and the compliant answer wins.
Describe the stream. We will tell you the route.
A description of the process and a rough quantity is enough to start. A Certified Hazardous Materials Manager reads every request, and sometimes the answer is a different service than the one you asked about.