What a roll-off container really costs in Pensacola, taken from price lists local haulers publish, the county's posted landfill rates, and the city franchise fee every in-city collection carries.
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Six boxes, about thirty seconds. You pick when to be called back, and that is when the phone rings.
Or call (448) 216-5186Escambia County's landfill in Cantonment charges $45.06 a ton for solid waste and $27.62 a ton for yard trash, each with an $11.64 minimum. Clean fill, dirt and concrete with no rebar or wire are accepted at no fee. Uncovered commercial loads pay $35.12.
Haulers collecting waste inside Pensacola need a non-exclusive city franchise and pay $1.50 per cubic yard of container capacity each time a container is collected, or $3.00 for compactors. A construction site using a non-franchised hauler faces a stop work order.
ECUA, the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, lists $291.96 to deliver a commercial roll-off, a monthly rental, and $197.04 per pull for a 20-yard box up to $213.64 for a 40, each pull including the Escambia County franchise fee, plus disposal billed at actual weight from Perdido.
Every range below is what companies working in Pensacola publish for that job, gathered from the numbered price pages under the table. It spans what several of them show, so the figures move with the specifics of the property and with who does the work. Nothing here is a quote, and no business has set a price on this page. A real number comes from whoever looks at the job.
| The job | Range seen | Billed as | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small box, 10 to 12 yards, up to seven days | $325–$45012 | flat | One local list includes a single ton at this size; another bills per dump with fifty dollars for each extra week. |
| 15-yard box, up to seven days | $355–$50012 | flat | A room of flooring or a small kitchen. Included weight differs by hauler, so get the ton figure before booking. |
| 20-yard box, up to seven days | $425–$55012 | flat | The usual size for a gutted room after a storm or a mid-size remodel. One list includes two tons. |
| Each ton of weight past the included allowance | $45–$6513 | per ton | The county's Perdido gate rate of $45.06 is the floor; one Pensacola hauler bills $65 for each ton over. |
Prices each of these companies publishes on its own site, read on the date shown in each listing. A published price can change without notice, so treat a number here as what was posted rather than what you will be told today.
A Pensacola dumpster quote is usually one number, and it is worth knowing what has been folded into it. Delivery, a rental window, some allowance of weight, the haul to the scale and the county's disposal charge are all in there. The invoice only changes when one of those runs past its limit: the box stays longer, the load weighs more, the truck cannot reach the box, or something banned turns up in it.
Two local haulers post prices for the common sizes, and they bracket the market. One sells boxes with a fixed tonnage allowance, a single ton on its smaller boxes and two on its twenty, plus a per-ton charge for anything over. The other sells by the dump, at a higher flat price per size, with a weekly charge if the box stays past its window, and a cheaper box reserved for clean concrete alone. Neither model is better in itself. The tonnage model rewards light loads; the per-dump model is simpler to compare, though it still carries weight limits of its own. The question to ask either way is what happens to the price if the box comes back heavier than expected.
Every load from a Pensacola box crosses a scale. At Escambia County's Perdido Landfill, solid waste is $45.06 a ton and yard trash is $27.62, and the county's Palafox Transfer Station charges $57.90. That gate rate is the floor under any overage charge; a hauler's per-ton rate past the allowance adds the truck, the driver and the trip on top of it. Clean concrete, dirt and fill with no rebar or wire are accepted at no fee, which is why a concrete-only box costs less than a mixed one and why one bag of trash ruins the savings.
A hauler collecting inside Pensacola must hold a city franchise and pays the city $1.50 per cubic yard of container capacity on every collection, so a twenty-yard box carries a thirty-dollar city fee each time it is hauled. It is not a line the customer usually sees, but it is part of why the quote is what it is, and it is the reason a cut-rate hauler without a franchise is no bargain on a job site the building official can shut down.
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority publishes a commercial roll-off schedule: a delivery charge, a monthly rental, and a per-pull charge of roughly two hundred dollars that includes the Escambia County franchise fee, with disposal billed separately at actual weight from Perdido and a requirement that the box be emptied at least every thirty days. It is built for businesses that keep a box for months, and it is a useful benchmark for anyone pricing a long renovation.
After a hurricane every hauler on the coast is booked at once. Rental windows shrink; one Pensacola hauler's price page carries a storm notice cutting its standard week to three days. Wet debris weighs far more than the same material dry, so allowances run out sooner. Book early, load fast, keep vegetation out of the box when the city is collecting it at the curb, and call for the haul as soon as the box is full.
On a driveway or private lot, local haulers say no permit is needed. A box in a city street or public right-of-way may need one from the City of Pensacola, so ask the city before delivery day.
The flat price, the weight included, the days included, the per-ton rate past the allowance and the charge for keeping the box longer, given together. With those numbers the invoice can be checked line by line, and the table above shows whether the quote sits inside what Pensacola haulers actually publish.
Job Sites In and Out of City Limits
Get a container that fits the job and the driveway, with the tons, the rental days and the price named before it is dropped, and the city franchise question settled first for any address inside city limits. If it has to sit on a city street, ask the City of Pensacola about a permit first.
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