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Dumpster rental
in Santa Ana.

Inside Santa Ana city limits, order a roll-off or temporary bin from Republic Services, the City's franchised hauler; other dumpster companies advertising Santa Ana are not the City's provider. For a few large items, use the four free bulky-item pickups first. Keep the box on your driveway, since we found no street-bin permit.

Sources checked November 14, 2026 · Guide updated November 14, 2026
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The first decision in Santa Ana

Check the city boundary first.

There is one provider to compare against your own options, not several companies. Republic's City-set price for a temporary C&D roll-off is $839.07 a load of any size with up to 8 tons included, $131.10 a ton beyond that; a 3-yard bin is $189.87 for a cleanup or $219.06 for C&D. Rental days are not published. The real alternatives are free bulky-item pickups for furniture and appliances, or hauling a pickup load to the Olinda Alpha or Prima Deshecha landfill for $30 to $92.70 a ton.

Your local checklist

Confirm the parcel is inside the City of Santa Ana and not unincorporated North Tustin or Cowan Heights or a neighboring city such as Tustin, Orange or Garden Grove, which use different haulers.
Call Republic Services at 657-467-6220 and ask for the rental period, extra-day charge and whether your load is priced as mixed C&D or as a cleanup bin before you book.
If you have a building permit, check SantaAna.wastetracking.com for whether a Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan is required, and tell Republic the box is for C&D so the load counts toward diversion.

Plan a rental in Santa Ana

Published details, side by side

Start with the City’s residential provider.

Listings are an editorial starting point, not a complete market ranking. Supplier-published amounts are not Dumpsterly quotes. Confirm address eligibility, material acceptance, dates and the full delivered total.

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Republic Services (City of Santa Ana franchised hauler)

Published sizes: 3-yard temporary bin (6 ft long x 3 ft 5 in wide x 4 ft high; 300-pound maximum), 10-yard roll-off (12 ft 8 in x 8 ft 3 in x 4 ft 4 in) for heavy loads such as concrete, asphalt and dirt, and 30-yard roll-off (23 ft 1 in x 8 ft x 6 ft 1 in) for large remodels; the commercial guide gives a 10-ton maximum for both roll-offs.
Rental & weight terms: The City's rate sheet (July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027) prices a mixed C&D roll-off of any size with up to 8 tons per load included, and charges $131.10 a ton above 8 tons. A dry-run trip or a return trip costs $94.54, and a roll-off cleaning fee is $39.86. The rental period and extra-day charges are not published; ask for them in writing. Mixed C&D loads may include brick, carpet, glass, insulation, foam, asphalt tiles, stucco with wire mesh, toilets and tubs, PVC pipe and treated or painted wood; hazardous waste is not allowed.
Price basis: Mixed C&D roll-off, any size: $839.07 per load (up to 8 tons). 3-yard temporary C&D bin: $219.06. 3-yard temporary bin for cleanups: $189.87. Prices are from the City of Santa Ana rate sheet for July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.

Republic's local office is at 2700 N. Main Street, Suite 1000, Santa Ana (the Wells Fargo building); call 657-467-6220 (Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to noon) for short-term bins and roll-offs, or 844-677-7378 for jobs over 30 days. The City's winter 2026 newsletter calls Republic 'the City's authorized hauler' for construction and demolition recycling, and the roll-off prices above appear on a City of Santa Ana rate sheet. A household cleanout box (furniture and junk rather than construction debris) is not priced separately, so ask Republic which rate applies.

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Get the missing numbers in writing.

Ask for delivery, pickup, included tons and days, per-ton overage, extra-day charges, fuel, tax, prohibited-item fees, swaps and blocked-trip charges. “Quote required” means the reviewed source did not establish a usable fixed total.

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Keep the bin on your driveway; we found no Santa Ana permit written for a bin in the street

We could not find a City of Santa Ana rule or permit written specifically for a roll-off or debris bin in the street, and the City's website did not let us read its trash and construction-waste pages, so treat street placement as unconfirmed rather than allowed. What we could read is the City's general encroachment permit checklist from Public Works Agency Development Engineering (20 Civic Center Plaza, M-93; 714-647-5039, revised October 2020). It covers any work in the public right-of-way and asks for work plans, a licensed contractor, a certificate of insurance naming the City as additional insured, a City business license, plan-check and permit fees and a work deposit, plus traffic-control plans if a lane is closed. Those terms are written for construction in the street, not for parking a bin, so call Development Engineering before a box goes on the street, sidewalk or parkway. Most Santa Ana single-family homes have a driveway that avoids the question; on narrow lots in the older districts, ask Republic whether its 3-yard temporary bin fits better than a roll-off.

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What matters locally

Four free bulky-item pickups a year, up to four items each

Santa Ana homes with curbside cart service may book four free bulky-item collections a year from Republic Services, each taking up to four items such as sofas, beds, chairs, dressers, washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, TVs and computer monitors. Call 657-467-6220 to schedule. Pickups beyond the four free ones, or with more than four items, cost $59.42 each under the City's July 2026 to June 2027 rate sheet. In apartment complexes of three or more units, each unit gets up to 10 items a quarter, picked up at a spot the property manager or HOA designates. Construction and demolition debris, hazardous waste and tires are not bulky items, so a remodel still needs a bin.

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Free household hazardous waste drop-off at four County centers; public landfill loads from $15

Paint, solvents, pool chemicals, batteries and other household hazardous waste cannot go in a roll-off. OC Waste & Recycling takes them free from Orange County residents at four centers (the nearest to Santa Ana are 1071 N. Blue Gum St., Anaheim, and 17121 Nichols Lane, Gate 6, Huntington Beach), Tuesday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed in rain, with a limit of 15 gallons or 125 pounds a trip and no container over 5 gallons. If you haul debris yourself, only the Olinda Alpha (Brea) and Prima Deshecha (San Juan Capistrano) landfills accept the public; the July 2026 to June 2027 fees are $15 for a car load under 360 pounds, $30 for a pickup or van under 880 pounds and $92.70 a ton above that, with $15 extra for items over six feet. The nearby Frank R. Bowerman landfill does not take public loads.

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Before you book

Questions about renting in Santa Ana.

Can I rent a dumpster from any company for my Santa Ana house?

Treat Republic Services as the only choice. Santa Ana gives one company an exclusive franchise for trash collection; the City's winter 2026 newsletter calls Republic 'the City's authorized hauler' for construction and demolition recycling, and the temporary C&D roll-off and cleanup-bin prices appear on the City's own rate sheet. City Code § 16-30(a) makes that franchise exclusive for all solid waste, including construction and demolition waste in roll-off containers or bins at temporary job sites, and allows only self-hauling as an exception. Call Republic at 657-467-6220 to book.

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Does my remodel need a recycling plan for the debris?

It may. Republic's Santa Ana C&D flyer says certain applicants pulling City permits for projects with construction debris must report where it goes and how much is diverted, and that a Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan must be filed through Green Halo before the permit is issued. CALGreen generally requires 65% diversion on covered projects. Check SantaAna.wastetracking.com to see whether your project is covered, and tell Republic the roll-off is for C&D so your tonnage is counted.

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