Dumpster rental in North Little Rock, AR

Renting a dumpster in North Little Rock

North Little Rock covers about 53 square miles along the north bank of the Arkansas River, and the ground under an address changes what is possible. The old river bottoms are flat and tightly platted from the railroad and cotton oil mill years, while Park Hill and the ridges near it sit well above the valley floor. Roughly, the flats lie south of I-40 and the higher ground north of it.

The Argenta historic district downtown covers 258 properties built between the late 1880s and the 1940s, including shotgun rows on the 500 block of Willow and the 800 block of Orange, plus the 52 Craftsman bungalows on Melrose Circle, on a former cotton oil mill site. Frontages there are narrow, so check the off-street space you actually have before delivery day. Park Hill adds 568 properties from the 1920s and the 1940s, laid out starting in 1922 on high ground north of the then city limits.

Lakewood filled in from the late 1940s through the 1960s, and the city skews mid-century, which is why the work behind most containers here is roof tear-off, kitchen gutting and cleanout rather than new construction. Spring is both the wet season and the peak of central Arkansas severe weather, so remodel debris and storm debris tend to move in the same weeks. we deliver across these routes.

Dumpster permits in North Little Rock

North Little Rock publishes no dumpster permit and no container permit. The city's master permit list runs through business, building, remodeling, sign, banner, street barricade, speed hump, event, parking, burn and animal permits, and the Engineering Department's downloadable permits cover driveway and curb cuts, grading, floodplain development, stormwater and excavation. Neither list has anything for a temporary container. So for a box on your own driveway, parking pad or private lot, there is nothing on the city's published lists to apply for, and private property is where most containers end up. The city does not publish anything that affirmatively exempts a driveway either, so if you want that confirmed for your address, Traffic Services is the office to ask.

The street is the case to plan around. Because the city publishes no dumpster-specific right-of-way permit, the closest published instrument is the Work Zone Barricade Plan Permit from the City of North Little Rock Traffic Services Department, which requires the contractor doing the work to obtain a barricade plan permit when a street or lane closing is necessary. Fees on that permit are published per day or fraction of a day and vary with what you occupy, whether that is an alley, the space behind the curb, one traffic lane or a full closure, with higher rates on collector and arterial streets. The Engineering Department oversees the city right of way more broadly. Whether that barricade permit is the right instrument for a parked container is a question for Traffic Services rather than for us, so if the street is the only workable spot at your address, check with them first and tell us what they say before you book. If the address sits outside the city limits, ask Pulaski County instead.

Official rules: City of North Little Rock Traffic Services Department.

Streets, driveways, and HOAs

Measure the driveway before you book. Argenta's oldest blocks were platted between the late 1880s and the 1940s with narrow frontages, and Park Hill was laid out starting in 1922 on high ground north of the then city limits, so drives in both tend to be short and narrow, and Park Hill sits on sloped ground. If the drive will not take a container, the street or the alley is the next question, and that puts you in the barricade permit conversation with Traffic Services before delivery day rather than after. Overhead clearance matters as much as the footprint, so look for low limbs and wires over the approach. Maumelle, just west, is a master planned community and holds the newest housing in the area, so if your address is there, check whether an association has its own placement or duration rules before locking a date.

Where the debris goes

The named permitted site in Pulaski County for construction and demolition debris is WM's Two Pine Landfill, a Class I landfill that has been accepting waste since 1980 and takes both construction and demolition debris and municipal solid waste, weekdays only. Which site a load actually goes to is the hauler's call, and that run happens after pickup, so there is nothing for you to arrange. What matters on your end is what cannot go in the container. Two Pine does not accept hazardous waste, so paint, solvents, fuels and batteries have to stay out of the box. The city's Hazardous Material Center on West 13th Street takes a limited list on set days, and it specifically does not take paint, car batteries or four foot fluorescent bulbs, so those need their own plan. The North Little Rock Sanitation Department handles household garbage, yard waste, recycling and leaf collection, and it publishes no city landfill or transfer station for construction and demolition debris. Recycling and waste reduction across North Little Rock, Little Rock, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Maumelle, Wrightsville and unincorporated Pulaski County is coordinated by the regional solid waste district.