How We Set These Ranges
Reviewed October 2, 2026
Where the prices come from
The bin ranges come from Ottawa bin companies' own price pages, read on October 2, 2026. We show a range only where at least two independent companies published comparable figures, and we never name a company. An aggregator page was read but not counted as an independent source, and neither were single-company figures.
Two models, kept apart
The companies we read price a bin in one of two ways: an all-in price that includes some tonnes of disposal, or a bin fee with disposal billed per tonne from the first tonne. A figure from one model says nothing about the other, so each model has its own weigh ticket, its own tonnage gauge, and its own answer when you enter a weight. The two are never added together or compared on one scale.
The arithmetic
Where a page does arithmetic for you, it says so. The bin-fee ticket multiplies the published per-tonne range by the tonnes you enter and adds the published bin-fee range. The street-permit page applies the City's Simple and Complex line at 10 working days and the City's $41 daily minimum. The road-rental footprints (about 8.9 m² and 16.4 m²) are our calculation from typical bin sizes, not City figures.
What we do not price
No range for 30 or 40 yard bins, for heavy-material bins, for surcharges or per-item fees, or for driveway damage: the figures we found came from one company, sat in different models, or did not exist. Those pages say so instead. No weight limit per bin size, because companies differ. No price differences between neighbourhoods.
The City's figures
The street-permit fees, the temporary consideration parking permit fees and the Trail Road landfill rates are quoted from the City of Ottawa's own 2026 pages. They are City charges and are never part of a bin price range.
We are a matching service, not a bin company, and we do not screen or verify the companies we pass requests to.