Detritus/Services/Commercial waste collection
Waste & recyclingAll 50 states + DC
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Recurring trash pickup for retail, restaurants, offices, and property portfolios. Front-load dumpsters, rear-load service, carts, and compactors, with recycling collected beside the trash, on one agreement.
Last reviewed October 26, 2026.
This page is for buildings that produce waste every week: stores, restaurants, offices, and property portfolios. The container stays. A truck empties it on a schedule and sets it back. A project that needs a container delivered and hauled away when the work is done is a roll-off rental. That service, sized by weight rather than by a weekly route, is on dumpster rental, with the sizing logic in the dumpster size guide.
A portfolio is the harder version of the same job. Each location has its own enclosure, its own volume, and often a different local hauler. The buyer still wants one agreement, one service record, and one invoice. Who we serve describes that facilities pattern. Waste broker vs hauler describes who owns the trucks and who owns the miss.
A front-load truck lifts the container from the front, empties it, and sets it back. Commercial front-load containers commonly run from 2 to 8 cubic yards. Two public schedules publish dimensions for those sizes, and they do not match. A “6 yard” on one route is not the box on the next. The quote has to name the container the local hauler will actually place.
| Cubic yards | Republic Services | City of Ann Arbor |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 ft L × 3 ft 1 in W × 3 ft 3 in H. 12 bags of 32 gallons. | 6 ft L × 3 ft W × 3 ft H. |
| 3 | Not on the published 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-yard chart. | On the rate schedule. Dimensions are not in the published size note. |
| 4 | 6 ft L × 4 ft 2 in W × 4 ft 2 in H. 24 bags of 32 gallons. | 6 ft L × 4 ft 2 in W × 5 ft H. |
| 5 | Not on the published 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-yard chart. | On the rate schedule. Dimensions are not in the published size note. |
| 6 | 6 ft L × 5 ft 7 in W × 5 ft 8 in H. 36 bags of 32 gallons. | 6 ft 6 in L × 5 ft W × 6 ft H. |
| 8 | 6 ft L × 6 ft 8 in W × 6 ft 2 in H. 48 bags of 32 gallons. | 6 ft L × 5 ft 6 in W × 6 ft 8 in H. |
Republic Services, Commercial Waste & Recycling Dumpsters, checked October 26, 2026. The page states that exact dimensions, products, capacities, weight, and availability vary by location. Bag counts use Republic’s 32-gallon bag. City of Ann Arbor, Commercial Trash Services, rates valid through June 30, 2027. Neither set is a Detritus specification, and neither is a national price.
Headcount is a weak way to pick a size. A restaurant and an office with the same number of people do not fill a container at the same rate. Size from how full the container is on pickup day, and from whether the enclosure can take the next size up. Republic publishes employee-count guidance with its chart. This page does not repeat it.
Rear-load is the same idea with a different truck. The container stays, and the truck loads it from the back. Use it where a front-load truck cannot reach the container with its forks: an alley, a tight enclosure, a dock the front loader cannot square up to. Carts cover the sites that do not fill two yards, or that cannot fit a dumpster. Ann Arbor’s published business carts are 96 gallons, serviced from one to seven times a week. Cart size is a local-hauler fact, not a single national spec.
A compactor uses a ram so the same waste takes fewer hauls. Ann Arbor publishes vertical compactors from 2 to 8 cubic yards on a weekly lift schedule, and 20-, 30-, 35-, and 40-yard compactors billed per lift. A roll-off that is hauled on a repeating schedule, rather than removed at the end of a project, sits in the same program. Detritus coordinates those hauls on the agreement. Stationary and self-contained compactors, and cardboard balers, are on compactors and balers. The side-by-side of front-load, roll-off, and compactor service is on front-load vs roll-off.
Frequency and size are one decision. A 4-yard container emptied twice a week and an 8-yard emptied once a week can move similar volume and cost different amounts, and the enclosure may only accept one of them. Published city schedules price the same container from one lift a week through six or seven. Ann Arbor prices 2-yard through 8-yard dumpsters at one to seven lifts a week. Its overload/surplus fee is $162.69 when the material does not fit inside the container. Those figures are that city’s published fees, valid through June 30, 2027. They are not a Detritus rate.
Example from the City of Ann Arbor's published schedule, valid through June 30, 2027. It is not a Detritus quote, offer, or price guarantee. Pricing depends on location, container size, service frequency and local disposal costs; only a written Detritus quote is binding.
The useful record is how full the container is when the truck arrives, not a national average.
Add a lift per week or step up a size. An overloaded container is how a cheap schedule becomes an extra fee.
Drop a lift or step down a size. Paying for air is the other way a schedule drifts.
A recycling container that is full of trash is no longer a recycling container. Right-size each stream on its own.
A line-by-line reading of published local fee lines, including extra debris, locks, distance, overage, and disposal, is on the commercial dumpster cost guide. The Ann Arbor overload fee above is one city’s published charge. It is not a Detritus rate, and it is not what a given site will pay.
Trash, cardboard, mixed recycling, and organics are different streams. They can ride the same agreement as separate containers or carts. Cardboard is usually its own container because it is bulky and, where a mill buys it, it is a different ticket from trash. Organics belong in their own container where the jurisdiction requires food-waste collection. This page does not restate those local rules, and it does not publish a rebate.
Contamination is the failure mode. If trash goes in the recycling container, the load is not a recycled load, and the hauler’s rule for that load is local. Do not treat a second container as recycling until the stream stays clean. Ann Arbor provides recycling carts and dumpsters to businesses on its franchise. That arrangement is local. It is not how every market bills recycling.
Detritus does not own a yard. That is deliberate. Local haulers perform the collection. The network includes haulers such as Republic, GFL, New South Waste, and Arrow. It is not a complete list of partners, and it is not a ranking. Detritus holds the customer agreement, including when the hauler is not the same company in every city.
Account rates apply across the locations. The invoice can be one bill, or split by entity, region, or cost center. Your accounts payable team sees the structure you asked for. The service record under it stays per site: container, frequency, hauler, and the misses. One customer’s national program ran through 45 local providers in 22 cities, on one contract, one rate card, and one invoice. That record is on past performance. It is a published operating record for a national program, not a front-load case study.
A retail remodeling contractor in the South was already getting portable toilets from us at a project site and needed regular trash service there too. We set up an 8-yard front-load container with a local hauler on a fixed service day, picked up every other week, and put it on the same account and invoice as their restrooms and roll-offs. It's been running for close to a year.
Detritus has 7,700+ providers on record and delivered work in 5,908 cities in 2025, in all 50 states. Those figures are operating records, explained in the coverage whitepaper. A site the current hauler does not serve is placed with another provider on the same agreement. You do not start a new vendor cycle because one city is outside a route.
A frequency change, an extra container, a compactor haul, or a new address goes to the same place as a new order: email, the customer app, or your own system. How an order is sourced, priced, dispatched, and billed is that path. The change stays on the existing agreement. A missed pickup opens as an exception. A named account manager owns it through resolution, and the hauler’s record carries the miss. This page does not state a clock time for that response. Questions to ask before you award the work are on how to evaluate a site services partner.
Front-load and compactor service is one part of a multi-location agreement. Roll-off, septic, and the rest of the site-services program are on site services and waste for multi-location businesses.
A site list, what each location throws away, and how often it has to be collected. We come back with coverage and a price. Single-site project containers book through Dumpster Rental Dogs. This page is the recurring program.
Retail, restaurants, offices, and property portfolios that need trash picked up on a repeating schedule. A construction project that needs a container delivered and hauled away is roll-off rental, which is a different page.
A front-load dumpster stays on site. The truck lifts it from the front, empties it, and sets it back on a set schedule. Commercial sizes commonly run from 2 to 8 cubic yards. Republic Services publishes 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-yard containers. The City of Ann Arbor also lists 3- and 5-yard containers. Dimensions for the same yard size are not the same from one publisher to the next, so the quote names the container the local route uses.
When the front-load truck cannot reach the container with its forks. Alleys, tight enclosures, and some docks are the usual cases. Rear-load is still recurring collection: the container stays, and the truck empties it on a schedule. A roll-off is hauled away. Project roll-offs are on the dumpster rental page. A roll-off that is hauled on a repeating schedule is part of this service.
As often as the container fills. Published city schedules price the same dumpster from one lift a week through six or seven. The City of Ann Arbor, with rates valid through June 30, 2027, prices 2-yard through 8-yard dumpsters at one to seven lifts a week and charges an overload fee of $162.69 when the material does not fit inside the container. Example from the City of Ann Arbor's published schedule, valid through June 30, 2027. It is not a Detritus quote, offer, or price guarantee. Pricing depends on location, container size, service frequency and local disposal costs; only a written Detritus quote is binding. If the lid will not close, add a lift or step up a size. If the container is routinely half empty, drop a lift or step down. Those dollar figures are one city's published fees, not a Detritus rate.
Yes, as separate containers or carts on the same agreement. Cardboard, mixed recycling, and organics, where a local rule requires organics, are different streams from trash. They have to stay separate. A cart is the usual choice when the volume is too small for a dumpster or the enclosure will not fit one. Ann Arbor's published business carts are 96 gallons.
Yes. Detritus holds the customer agreement, including when the hauler is not the same company in every city. Account rates apply across the locations, and the invoice can be consolidated or split by entity, region, or cost center. One customer's national program ran through 45 local providers in 22 cities on one contract, one rate card, and one invoice.
Send the site, the container, and the frequency by email, in the customer app, or from your own system. The change stays on the existing agreement. A missed pickup opens as an exception, and a named account manager owns it through resolution. This page does not state a clock time for that response.
No. Detritus does not own a yard. Local haulers perform the collection. Haulers in the network include Republic, GFL, New South Waste, and Arrow. That is not a complete list, and it is not a ranking. Detritus quotes the work, keeps the service record, pays the hauler, and bills you.
Provider counts, cities served, and the national-program figures are Detritus operating records already published on the coverage whitepaper and past performance. This page does not publish Detritus prices. Guides that explain the rest of the site are listed on resources.