Who reads the fee schedules on Dump Fees by State

Dump Fees by State is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds free calculators on public data. It is for people in the United States who are about to take a load to the dump themselves: a homeowner clearing a garage, a tenant moving out, someone finishing a small remodel or a yard clean-up, and anyone weighing a dumpster quote against a few trips in a pickup.

Why this site exists

Search for the cost of going to the dump and most pages give a national range with no source, then ask for a ZIP code so that a hauler or a dumpster company can call. The real prices exist: counties, cities and public waste authorities publish their gate rates, minimum charges and item fees. But each one does it in its own format, on its own page, and nobody had set them side by side or priced a given load on them.

So this site reads those schedules one by one, notes the date each gives, and turns them into a calculator that shows which line applies to your load. We print no fee we have not read on the operator’s own page, and no dumpster prices, because none are published.

Where the figures come from

25 fee schedules from public landfills, transfer stations and a drop-off center, read on November 7, 2026; the EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program database for the 1,266 open landfills on its list; the EPA’s volume-to-weight factors; the IRS mileage rate. The method page gives every rule and every limit.

What we are not

We are not a waste hauler, a landfill operator, a dumpster company or a government agency. We do not take bookings or payments, and we have no link with any facility listed. What a site accepts, when it is open and what it charges on the day are decided by its operator; its current schedule always prevails over ours.

How the site is paid for

It is free and needs no account, no e-mail and no phone number. We take no commission and pass no details to anyone. If advertising is added one day it will never sit above a calculator, and it cannot use what you type, because nothing you type leaves your browser.

Tell us when a fee has changed

Write to contact@dumpfeesbystate.com with the site and the link to its current schedule. The editorial policy explains how a correction is made. The site has 25 indexed pages, listed in the footer.

Fees last read on November 7, 2026.