Dumpster Rental in Dunmore, PA

Roll-off containers for Dunmore homes and jobsites

Dunmore starts where Scranton ends, so a run east from our yard puts a container on your driveway fast. The borough packs plenty into its nine square miles: the tight residential grid around Dunmore Corners, hillside streets climbing toward the Moosic Mountains, and heavy industrial ground out along the O'Neill Highway. Most of what we set here serves attic and basement clearances in century-old doubles, kitchen and bathroom gut jobs, roof tear-offs where two or three layers of shingle sit over original slate, and estate clean-outs when a family home finally turns over. Contractors working the Drinker Street blocks call regularly, usually because they need a tight-driveway placement rather than a wide-open one.

What we know about working in Dunmore

Dunmore's housing stock leans hard on the 1890s through the 1930s: double-block frame homes, brick-fronted singles, plaster and lath throughout, and full basements that still hold the old coal cellar and chute. That mix throws off dense, dusty debris, so weight limits matter here more than volume. Institutional and commercial work pulls the other direction. Penn State Scranton, the Marywood side of the borough, the chocolate plant that has been a fixture since the 1930s, and the warehouses in Keystone Industrial Park all generate steady renovation and clear-out projects. Ground rises sharply toward the mountain on the eastern streets, which becomes a real factor once a driveway glazes over in January. Alleys behind the older blocks are usable but narrow, with utility lines hanging low over several of them.

• CountyLackawanna County
• Distance from our yard3 miles east of Scranton
• Main routesI-81 (exit 186, Drinker Street)
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

From the Providence Road yard we drop down through North Scranton to I-81 south and come off at exit 186 for Drinker Street, which lands us in the borough in well under fifteen minutes. For addresses closer to the Corners we cut across on Business Route 6 instead. Watch the one-way blocks off Chestnut Street and the steep pitch on the upper hillside streets, since both decide where a loaded box can safely sit.

Routes we run: I-81 (exit 186, Drinker Street), Business Route 6, PA 347 (O'Neill Highway), I-84 / I-380 western terminus.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Dunmore

On a private driveway in Dunmore you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the borough or township where the road is locally maintained, or from PennDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Lackawanna County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have no off-street parking at all, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and PA DEP publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Dunmore. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Lackawanna County.

Sizes we deliver to Dunmore