The Connecticut Dumpster Price Index

What 25 quotes tell you about one market

Medians and ranges below are computed across the quoted base prices in the tables above — quoted price only, before weight and extra days, which is how the operators themselves quote. Litchfield and New London had two reachable operators each: too few for a median, so they stay out of this table.

County	Median 20-yard quote	Range
Fairfield	$575	$455-697
New Haven	$560	$532-715
Hartford	$620	$543-650

(phone survey of 25 Connecticut operators, August 2026)

On the 10-yard, Fairfield County — the only county with enough 10-yard quotes for a median — came in at a median $400, range $385-559.

Four patterns worth knowing before you call anyone:

• The most common 20-yard weight allowance quoted statewide is 3 tons — but the survey found everything from 1 ton to 3.5 tons on the same size can. Two quotes $100 apart can be $200 apart once the scale ticket lands. That gap is the reason renters shop size before they shop price: in our own ad account, size questions outrank every query in Connecticut but the plain core term.
• Rental periods are all over the map: 7-day majority; 14-day at 5 operators; 3-day option at 2; 10-day at 2.
• 3 of 25 operators quote ranges or "and up" — the number you're given on the phone isn't always the number on the invoice.
• No CT operator besides Grizzly publishes a full price card online. We publish ours — every rate on this page's comparison rows is on our pricing page and our statewide rate card.

How Connecticut bills overage

Every operator that quoted an overage rate charges for weight past the allowance — the difference is the rate and the unit. Nobody on this list invented the charge: the state has no landfill of its own and lost its biggest burn plant in 2022, and the tipping fee behind every one of these rates has outrun general inflation since. Per-ton rates across the survey: range $126-200/ton, median ~$150/ton.

Per-ton overage band	Operators quoting it
$126-135/ton	6
$145-150/ton	6
$160-175/ton	5
$190+/ton	1

(phone survey of 25 Connecticut operators, August 2026)

5 operators bill per pound instead of per ton — and that unit switch matters: $0.09/lb works out to $180/ton; $0.10/lb to $200/ton. Per-pound billing sits at the top of the statewide per-ton range, ours included; the difference is you can read our rate before you book instead of after. And 1 operator sets a floor instead of a rate: $175 minimum charged regardless of weight.

Extra-day fees run $10-$80 across the survey. one operator charges $75/week; one charges no daily fee at all. If your project might run long, the extra-day rate can matter more than $50 on the base price — a $15/day can and an $80/day can are different products.

If you're trying to guess whether your own load will go over, our weight guide publishes what real loads weigh, size by size, and the overage fee guide walks the billing math. The short version of why weight is the whole game: every can we run is the same can — the size you book is a weight allowance, not a different box.

Methodology

Every operator in these tables was phone-shopped in August 2026 — quotes for a standard residential rental, prices as quoted. Operators are anonymized by design. We asked for the same standard residential rental every time and recorded price, included weight, rental period, overage rate, and extra-day fee exactly as quoted — where an operator didn't state a term, the table says so instead of guessing. Two-operator counties carry a small-sample caveat and stay out of the median table. We refresh the survey annually, before the spring demand ramp, and the date at the top of this page is real.