Dumpster Rental in Greece, NY

Roll-off containers for Greece homes and jobsites

Greece is the largest town in Monroe County with 96,926 people at the 2020 census, and it is the closest big town to our Hague Street yard. Head north-west and the city line disappears behind you without much ceremony — the streets keep going, the housing changes character gradually rather than suddenly, and then you are in a town that runs its own building department, its own highway department and its own rules. That change of jurisdiction is invisible from the sidewalk and it is the single most useful thing we tell customers on the first call.

The town stretches from the city edge all the way to Lake Ontario, and it changes as it goes. The streets nearest Rochester are the oldest — pre-war and immediately post-war houses on modest lots, much of it built when the city spilled outward in the 1940s and 1950s. The middle of the town is the classic post-war county suburb: ranches, capes, split-levels and colonials with attached garages, full basements underneath all of them, and driveways wide enough to take a container without an argument. The northern end runs out to the lakeshore, Braddock Bay and the parkway, where you find older cottage stock, newer waterfront building and a lot of ground that stays wet into spring.

What we carry out of Greece reflects that spread. The post-war middle of the town produces remodels: kitchens, baths, basement finishing, deck tear-outs, garage clear-outs and a steady volume of roofing. Those houses are now fifty to seventy years old, which is exactly the age at which the original roof has been replaced twice, the original windows once, and the original kitchen is on its second or third life. The older streets near the city line produce cleanouts and estate work. The lakeshore end produces storm and water damage, and it produces it on the town’s own weather schedule — the lake-effect gradient across this county runs from roughly 70 inches of snow a year south of the city to over 120 inches along the lakeshore, and Greece sits on the wrong half of that.

Being outside the city line changes real things. The City of Rochester’s lead ordinance does not apply here, and neither does the City’s right-of-way obstruction permit at § 104-24 — Greece has its own arrangements for anything in a town right-of-way, and you get the answer from the town, not from Rochester. What does carry across the line is state and federal law, and county infrastructure. The EPA lead-safe work practice rules still cover pre-1978 housing. New York’s asbestos rule still applies. Mill Seat Landfill in the Town of Riga is still county-owned and still commercial accounts only. And the Monroe County ecopark is still the place a resident takes what a container cannot. Greece is a short run for us and often a same-day one. Call early and we usually make it. One practical note about a town this large. Greece runs from the city line to the lake and from the Charlotte side across to the Ogden boundary, and the drive time between one end and the other is real. When we quote a same-day delivery here we need the address rather than the town, because the northern lakeshore streets and the Ridge Road corridor are two different runs from our yard. Ridge Road, NY-104, is the reference line for most of it: north of Ridge tends to run toward the lake and the older cottage and waterfront stock, south of Ridge is the postwar middle of the town, and the two produce different loads out of the same size container.

What we know about working in Greece

Greece is a town, not part of the city, and that is where a Greece job starts. The building department, the permit questions and anything involving a town right-of-way are the Town’s business, and the City of Rochester’s codes — the lead ordinance at Chapter 90 and the right-of-way obstruction permit at § 104-24 — do not reach out here. What does reach out here is everything above the town. The EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting rule covers pre-1978 housing anywhere, and window replacement and demolition are always in scope regardless of square footage, which matters on the older streets near the city line. New York’s asbestos rule, 12 NYCRR Part 56 administered by the Department of Labor, requires a survey before demolition, renovation, remodeling or repair, with a narrow carve-out for the owner of a one- or two-family dwelling who contracts for but does not direct or control the work — and buildings whose original construction commenced after 1 January 1974 are outside the survey requirement, which covers a good share of the middle of this town but not the older end. On the disposal side, county infrastructure is the same on both sides of the line. Mill Seat Landfill in the Town of Riga is county-owned and states plainly that it accepts commercial accounts only, no residential customers, so a homeowner cannot simply drive a load out there. The Monroe County ecopark at 10 Avion Drive takes household hazardous waste by appointment and electronics, appliances, fluorescent lights, propane tanks, scrap metal, textiles and rechargeable batteries walk-in — for Monroe County residents only. Sizing: the post-war stock here fills a 20 on a basement and garage clear-out, a 30 on a whole-house cleanout or a large remodel, and a 10 on anything with concrete, block or foundation spoil in it, because weight ends those jobs early. Two practical winter notes. Most Monroe County towns ban overnight on-street parking through the winter months, and the months and hours vary from town to town, so we put the container on your driveway rather than the street and we bring plywood for it. And in March and April, when the frost comes out, town boards in New York can temporarily exclude heavier vehicles from town highways under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1660(a)(11) — effective the moment the signs go up, with a carve-out for delivery and pickup. Start with our guide to choosing a dumpster size in Rochester.

• RegionMonroe County
• Distance from our yard4 miles north-west of our Hague Street yard
• Main routesHague Street north to Lyell Avenue, west to Mount Read Boulevard and north across the town line
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Greece is one of our shortest runs. Lyell Avenue west to Mount Read Boulevard and north across the town line covers most of the southern half in about fifteen minutes. Ridge Road West, NY-104, carries us the full width of the town for anything in the middle. For the western end we go out on NY-531 and turn north on Long Pond Road, and for the lakeshore and the Braddock Bay end the Lake Ontario State Parkway is the natural approach. Dewey Avenue north out of Maplewood serves the Barnard side. Because it is close, same-day is realistic here more often than not. At booking we want the address, the driveway width and surface, whether the box will block a garage or a side door, what is overhead, and the nature of the load. A roof tear-off, a basement finish, a garage clear-out and a whole-house cleanout are four different sizes, and on a post-war Greece lot the driveway is nearly always the right answer rather than the street.

Routes we run: Hague Street north to Lyell Avenue, west to Mount Read Boulevard and north across the town line, Ridge Road West, NY-104, straight west from the city edge and across the whole town, NY-531 west out of Gates and north on Long Pond Road for the western half, the Lake Ontario State Parkway for anything on the lakeshore and Braddock Bay end, Dewey Avenue north from Maplewood for the Barnard and North Greece side.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Greece

On a private driveway in Greece the placement question is mostly not a permit question at all, and that surprises people. A container that sits entirely on your own driveway or private property is generally outside the City of Rochester’s right-of-way permit requirement at City Code § 104-24, and the towns around the city take the same broad view of private ground. The moment any part of the box, or the room the truck needs to set it down, touches the sidewalk, the tree lawn or the street, the answer changes. Inside the city line that means a written right-of-way permit from the City Engineer. § 104-24(A) puts it plainly: no person shall “place or suffer to remain materials of any kind or any goods, wares, merchandise, equipment, machinery or other article or obstruction in the right-of-way without a permit in writing from the City Engineer, except while in the process of actively loading or unloading.” Read the rest of that section before you plan a street placement, because § 104-24(C) requires the obstruction to be barricaded and lit at night, the City Engineer sets the conditions and the timeframe, a permit can be revoked without notice under § 104-24(B), and everything has to be off the right-of-way by the time it expires under § 104-24(D). On a Rochester street in December the sun is down before five o’clock, so we put reflective marking on every street placement as a matter of course. Current fees and the application process come from the Department of Environmental Services rather than from any web page, ours included. Outside the city the same call goes to the town’s own public works or engineering office, because street rules follow the address. Winter tightens all of it: the City limits any vehicle to twelve hours in one spot under § 111-16 and can prohibit parking along designated snow routes by declaration under § 111-73, and most Monroe County towns ban overnight on-street parking through the winter, with the months and the hours differing town by town. A container in the street is governed separately from all of that, by the § 104-24 permit, but the simplest answer in Greece is nearly always the driveway. The driveway has a rule of its own, and it is a fire rule. New York’s fire code is the Fire Code of New York State, adopted at 19 NYCRR Part 1225, and it carries the International Fire Code requirement that a container over the size threshold not be placed inside a building or within five feet of combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines. Five feet is the stable number and we work to it. The capacity threshold itself tightened in the 2025 code cycle, so if the only workable spot is tight against the building, check with your local code enforcement officer before we deliver. We keep every container five feet off the siding, the soffit line and any door or window, clear of exits, fire-apparatus access and hydrants, and no flammable or combustible liquids go in it. There is no statewide per-dumpster fire permit in New York, and Rochester does not appear to require a fire-department permit for a temporary container; what it does require, for a street placement, is the right-of-way permit above. When you pick the spot, look up as well as around. Rochester’s mature street canopy has the electrical service drop running underneath it, and a spot that is wide open at eye level can be closed at twenty feet.

Two more rules reach every job we run, and both come from the state rather than the town. The first is asbestos, and New York files it somewhere people do not expect: the rule is 12 NYCRR Part 56, Industrial Code Rule 56, enforced by the New York State Department of Labor — an industrial code rule, not an environmental regulation. § 56-5.1 requires an asbestos survey before demolition, renovation, remodeling or repair. The carve-out is narrow and it gets misread constantly: it covers “the owner of one and two-family dwellings who contracts for, but does not direct or control the work.” That is not the same thing as houses being exempt. The survey exemptions — agricultural buildings, structures whose original construction commenced after 1 January 1974, and buildings certified structurally unsound by a licensed engineer, architect or building inspector — carry a sting as well, because NYSDOL says a building that qualifies for one must still be assumed to contain asbestos and demolished as an asbestos project unless a survey documents that there is none. An exemption from the survey is a presumption of asbestos, and that costs more than the survey would have. Most of the stock in and around Greece went up long before 1974, and 9 by 9 vinyl floor tile and wrapped pipe insulation in the basement are ordinary here rather than exotic. We cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. Asbestos in New York moves under a separate NYSDEC Part 364 permit and has to be handled by a NYSDOL-licensed asbestos contractor. The second rule is lead, and around here it is the default condition of the job rather than an edge case. Anything built before 1978 falls under the EPA RRP rule at 40 CFR Part 745, and window replacement and demolition are covered regardless of square footage, so a window job in Greece is essentially always an RRP job. The City of Rochester has run its own lead ordinance since 2006 at Municipal Code Ch. 90, Art. III, tied directly to the certificate of occupancy, and the New York State Lead Rental Registry under Public Health Law § 1377 reaches rental property with two or more units built before 1980, with Rochester named among the state’s communities of concern. Paint scrapings, old window units and plaster off a pre-1980 rental are the debris of a regulated activity, and we would rather know that before the truck rolls than after. Before anything is dug, trenched, driven or a stump pulled, call UDig NY on 811. The notice window under 16 NYCRR § 753-3.1 is at least two but not more than 10 working days, so that call goes in the week before, not the morning of. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and refuse, recycling and right-of-way details are published by the City of Rochester.

The ground is the other local variable, and in New York it is not the tidy number people expect. New York publishes no statewide frost depth. Table R301.2(1) of the Residential Code of New York State, at 19 NYCRR Part 1220, leaves that cell for the municipality to fill in, and the State’s own guidance says “the local jurisdiction shall provide the minimum depth of footing below finish grade.” So the footing depth for a job in Greece is a question for the building department that covers you, not something you read off a national chart. What is not in doubt is the climate: the ground here really freezes, footings go well below grade, and that is why full basements are near-universal in this housing stock. A cleanout in Greece therefore starts a floor lower than a sizing guide written for the south would assume. The basement and the attic are the job, and what comes up those stairs is storm windows, paint tins, a workbench, furniture and thirty years of boxes. The housing itself is the second half of that. 53.7 percent of Rochester’s housing was built in 1939 or earlier, roughly nine houses in ten predate 1980, and this metro ranks eighth-oldest among large US metros. In the container that reads as stone and rubble foundations, balloon framing, plaster and wood lath instead of drywall, knob-and-tube wiring and cast-iron drain lines. Plaster and lath is dense, and it is the single commonest reason a container goes over payload while it still looks half full, which is why we would rather send a 10 yard twice than a 30 yard once on a gut job. Only 38.1 percent of city housing is owner-occupied, so inside the city line the typical residential job is a landlord turnover on a two-family up-and-down rather than a homeowner remodel, while out in the county towns it is more often a roof, a remodel or a landscape clear-out on a two-story detached house. Then there is the weather, which is the part of this market nobody else has to write about. 102.0 inches of snow is the 1991–2020 normal published by the National Weather Service in Buffalo, higher than any other US metro over a million people. January alone brings 27.4 inches across 17.6 snow days. The gradient inside the county is real: roughly 70 inches south of the city, about 90 in the city itself and over 120 along the lakeshore east of it, with about half of the annual total falling as ordinary storm snow and the rest as lake effect off Lake Ontario. Snow sitting in an open container is weight you pay to haul, so tarp it or lid it between loads. Access moves with the season too: snowbanks and the plow windrow narrow a drive that took a 30 yard in October, and on gravel or a shared drive we would rather move you a day than leave ruts through soft ground. Spring is the other pinch. Monroe County’s dominant soils are silt loams — Collamer and Niagara, with Honeoye the region’s signature series — wet in spring and soft under load. And New York runs no statewide frost law. Under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1660(a)(11) each town board may “temporarily exclude from any portion of any town highway any vehicle with a gross weight of over four or more tons” when the thaw makes the road soft; the restriction “take[s] effect upon the erection of signs”; and the statute provides that such exclusions “shall not be construed to prevent the delivery or pickup of merchandise or other property.” So a March delivery in a Monroe County town is sometimes scheduled differently from the same delivery in July, and we watch for the signs rather than guess. Plywood goes under every wheel and under the rails, on every driveway placement, all year. Where the load ends up is the part people assume and get wrong, and here the answer sits unusually close to home. Monroe County owns Mill Seat Landfill, in the Town of Riga on the west side of the county; Waste Management operates it under a 49-year lease signed in 2002, its approved capacity is 1,945 tons a day and its permitted life runs through 2057. High Acres Landfill, run by Waste Management of New York, sits at the eastern edge of the county in Perinton. Disposal capacity for this market is inside the county line, which is not true of every Northeast city. But Mill Seat is “COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS ONLY. NO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS,” open Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A homeowner in Greece cannot drive a pickup there, and that is precisely why roll-off service exists in this county. Household quantities take a different route entirely. Those go to the Monroe County ecopark, 10 Avion Drive, Rochester NY 14624 — Wednesday 1:00 to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with an appointment required for household hazardous waste and walk-in service for electronics, appliances, pharmaceuticals, sharps, fluorescent lights, scrap metal, propane tanks, rechargeable batteries and textiles. Some items are fee-based and it is credit or debit only, and the ecopark is “for use by Monroe County residents only,” which covers everyone we deliver to. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in one of our containers. That county layer is the thing to understand about working here. Monroe County is the working unit: it owns the landfill, runs the recycling center, runs the ecopark and runs the childhood lead program, and none of that stops at the city line. What does change at the town line is the street — the City wants that written right-of-way permit from the City Engineer, barricaded and lit after dark, while each town around it runs its own arrangements and its own seasonal overnight parking ban on dates and hours of its own choosing. That is one more argument for the driveway. Last, what has to come out of the load. New York has no waste-ban list; the phrase gets repeated on dumpster pages and it does not exist. What the state did instead was General Municipal Law § 120-aa, which ordered every municipality to adopt its own source-separation law by 1 September 1992 — Rochester complied with City Code Ch. 20, Art. IV, adopted 19 November 1991. The real bans are product by product, each in its own Title of ECL Article 27: electronics under Title 26 since 1 January 2015, rechargeable batteries under Title 18, waste tires under Title 19, and mercury thermostats under Title 29 since 2005 — and on that last one NYSDEC names contractors “demolishing buildings” specifically. Leftover paint has had PaintCare in New York since May 2022 under Title 20, so it goes to a drop-off site rather than into the box. And the City states the rest of it outright at § 20-15F: “Contractors performing work must make arrangements for the proper and legal collection and disposal of waste generated during the construction process and such waste shall not be collected by the City.” That sentence is the line where a roll-off starts.

Sizes we deliver to Greece