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Orange County dump fees: Olinda Alpha and Prima Deshecha

The calculator opens on a 600 lb pickup load with a mattress at the OC Waste & Recycling landfills.

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Not sure of the weight? A standard pickup bed (6½ × 5 ft) piled 2 ft high with household junk is about 660 lbs on the federal EPA factors; a fridge alone is about 250 lbs. Measure your load instead.

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At Olinda Alpha and Prima Deshecha landfills, Orange County, south of LA, CA

$45

6th most expensive of the 24 public sites we priced for this load.

Load: Flat fee for this vehicle under 880 lbs; heavier loads are weighed$30
Bulky item fee (item over six feet, such as a mattress)$15
Total$45

OC Waste & Recycling (public), price list effective July 1, 2026, checked on November 7, 2026 on the official page. Autos, minivans and SUVs: $15 for loads under 360 lbs. Pickups and vans: $30 for loads under 880 lbs.

Same load at other public sites in California

  • County landfills and transfer stations (Riverside–San Bernardino)$18.45 *
  • Badlands, Blythe, Lamb Canyon and El Sobrante landfills (Riverside–San Bernardino)$21.10
  • Kiefer Landfill (Sacramento)$35
  • North Area Recovery Station (Sacramento)$40
For comparison only: the cheapest sites in other states
  • 27th Avenue and North Gateway transfer stations (Phoenix, AZ)$0 for residents *Free only for: Phoenix residents who pay for full city trash service: one load up to a ton, once a month.
  • Washington County landfill (St. George, UT)$0 for residents *Free only for: Washington County residents: one load under a ton a month.
  • Trail Ridge Landfill (Jacksonville, FL)$9.09 *
  • Franklin County Sanitary Landfill (Columbus, OH)$11.93 *
  • McCommas Bluff Landfill (Dallas, TX)$14.93 *
  • Greater El Paso Landfill (El Paso, TX)from $16 *

* That site’s price list has no price for an item in your load (a mattress, for example). The item is not counted: ask at the gate.

How this is calculatedFees from official price lists. No quote form, no ZIP code.

OC Waste & Recycling runs the public landfills of Orange County, California, and its schedule effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 has a flat rate for light loads and a per-ton rate for the rest. Autos, minivans and SUVs pay $15 for a load under 360 lbs; pickups and vans pay $30 for a load under 880 lbs. Heavier loads are weighed at $92.70 a ton, or $107.70 if they hold hard-to-handle items. On a flat-rate load, items longer than six feet, such as wood, furniture or a mattress, add $15. This page covers Olinda Alpha and Prima Deshecha, the two landfills named on the schedule we read. Orange County sits in the Los Angeles area, where the sanitation districts that serve Los Angeles County could not be opened when we checked them, so we print no figure for them.

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OC Waste & Recycling, from July 1, 2026

OC Waste & Recycling (public): Olinda Alpha and Prima Deshecha landfills fee schedule, effective July 1, 2026, read on November 7, 2026.
Line of the price listFee
Car, SUV or minivan, flat (under 360 lbs)$15
Pickup or cargo van, flat (under 880 lbs)$30
Trash, per ton$92.70
Per ton with hard-to-handle items$107.70
Hard-to-handle item on a flat load$15

The weight limits make the scale decisive. A car under 360 lbs and a pickup under 880 lbs pay the flat rate; one pound more and the whole load is priced per ton. At $92.70 a ton, a pickup just above the limit pays about $41.72, more than the flat $30. If your load is near the limit, two lighter trips can cost less than one heavy one.

Paint, batteries and other household hazardous waste do not belong in a trash load anywhere; ask the county where to take them. Compare with Riverside County, where a pickup pays a flat rate at any weight, and with Miramar, where the flat rate is higher but covers a full load.

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What does it cost to dump a pickup load in Orange County?

$30 if the load weighs under 880 lbs, plus $15 if it includes items longer than six feet. A heavier load is weighed: 1,200 lbs of routine trash costs about $55.62. The fee schedule is the same at both landfills open to the public.

Is a mattress hard-to-handle at the OC landfills?

The schedule names items longer than six feet, including wood, furniture and mattresses, as hard-to-handle. On a flat-rate load they add a fixed fee once per load. On a weighed load the whole load moves to the hard-to-handle rate per ton. Either way, one mattress costs the same as several.

Do Los Angeles County residents pay the Orange County rates?

The OC schedule we read does not print a separate rate for residents of other counties. The fee pages of the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts could not be opened when we checked them, so we cannot compare their rates here. Call the site before driving across the county line.

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