Terms of Service

Agreement

These terms govern your use of elizabethtowndumpsterrental.com and any container rented from Elizabethtown Dumpster Rental Co of 4675 N Dixie Hwy, Elizabethtown, KY 42701. Placing a booking by telephone on (270) 900-6891 is acceptance of them; there is no other way to book, because no form exists on this site. Revised September 10, 2026.

They are written for one county. Where a section names a statute, a regulation or a section of the Elizabethtown code, it is describing what that instrument provides, in Kentucky, as at the date above.

Quotes and pricing

A quote is built from four answers given on the telephone: what the material is, roughly how much of it there is, the address the container is to stand at, and the number of days it is wanted for. The address is asked for first and it is not a formality — in Hardin County it settles which authority governs the placement, and a container that has to stand anywhere other than on private ground may not be schedulable on the day requested at all.

The figure quoted is a single one. It carries the delivery, the collection, the agreed period on site, and disposal up to the tonnage stated in the quote — including the part of disposal cost that no hauler in the Commonwealth sets, the environmental remediation fee of $1.75 per ton levied on waste disposed in Kentucky under KRS 224.43-500. Nothing is added underneath it for fuel, for administration or for an environmental surcharge.

The figure changes only where the job changes, and the ways it can are finite: the load crosses the tonnage stated; the container is kept past the agreed period; material this company refuses is found in it; the load stands above the top rail and therefore cannot be sheeted or lawfully carried; or a booked delivery or collection cannot be completed on arrival because the placement point or the approach was obstructed. Each of those is explained on the telephone before the container leaves the yard rather than after it returns.

Prohibited materials

What may not be placed in a container supplied by this company, grouped by the reason it is refused rather than as an undifferentiated list.

• Anything that pours or seeps. Wet paint, stain, solvent, adhesive, tar and roofing cement; motor oil, fuel, brake fluid and antifreeze; pesticide, herbicide and pool chemicals. The general reason is that they are not container waste anywhere. The local reason is set out further down this section and it concerns the ground beneath this county.
• Anything under pressure or alight. Propane bottles, aerosols and any other pressurized cylinder, and ash or embers that have not been cold for days.
• Anything containing asbestos, without exception and irrespective of the age or type of the building it came out of.
• Whole tires, which are handled in Kentucky under a rule of their own, set out below.
• Electronic devices and their components, and batteries of every description, which have a Hardin County route of their own that a container is not.
• Appliances and white goods still holding refrigerant, and any sealed system that has not been evacuated.
• Medical, biohazard and radioactive waste, hazardous waste of any description, and contaminated soil.

Kentucky’s solid waste requirements sit in KRS Chapter 224 and in Title 401 of the Kentucky Administrative Regulations, administered by the Division of Waste Management of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. Disposal facilities in this state are permitted by class. 401 KAR 47:005 defines a contained landfill, a construction/demolition debris landfill, an inert landfill and a residual landfill, alongside a special waste class, and defines construction/demolition debris itself as waste resulting from the construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of structures and roads, and for the disposal of uncontaminated solid waste consisting of vegetation resulting from land clearing and grubbing, utility line maintenance, and seasonal and storm related cleanup. Because the classes differ, what any given facility may lawfully receive differs with it, which is the reason acceptability is established load by load rather than assumed. The Commonwealth additionally levies an environmental remediation fee of $1.75 per ton on waste disposed in Kentucky under KRS 224.43-500, the proceeds of which fund the Kentucky pride fund under KRS 224.43-505, applied among other purposes to grants to eliminate illegal open dumps. Loads collected by this company are taken to permitted Kentucky disposal facilities. Hardin County operates a permitted contained landfill on Audubon Trace in Elizabethtown, referred to here as public infrastructure only; its hours, gate rules and accepted materials have not been established by this company, and inquiries about them should be directed to the county Solid Waste department on (270) 360-9207.

One statutory prohibition bears directly on material this company carries. KRS 224.50-856 provides that no person shall engage in disposal of waste tires in Kentucky except by transfer to a permitted solid waste disposal facility, subject to enumerated exceptions, and brings a person transporting more than fifty waste tires within the state waste tire requirements; whole tires are accordingly refused in every container we supply. This company has not established a Kentucky landfill prohibition on lead-acid batteries, electronic devices or yard waste, and asserts none. Those materials are kept out of our containers as a matter of routing and of the county programs described below rather than on the basis of any claimed statewide ban. Hardin County holds a household hazardous waste collection event once each year and an electronic waste recycling event once each year, and operates seven recycling drop-off locations at Eastview, Elizabethtown, Farmers Market, Glendale, Radcliff, Sonora and Vine Grove, which accept rinsed number 1 and number 2 plastics, rinsed aluminum and tin cans, non-greasy cardboard and newspapers, the county’s published position being that items not listed above are not accepted at any drop-off location.

The City of Elizabethtown does not collect household garbage. Elizabethtown Code Section 92.031(H) lists the lawful methods of disposal, the first of which is pickup and collection by sanitation companies, who possess a valid business license, and Section 92.030 provides that violation of that subchapter shall be deemed a public nuisance. Section 92.031(F) makes it a violation to fail to dispose of all garbage, debris and rubbish at least one time per week, and Section 92.031(A) allows no more than 96 consecutive hours for garbage or other material subject to decay except in a tightly-covered metal or plastic container. Section 92.031(I) makes it a nuisance to burn garbage anywhere in the city and a nuisance to burn debris or rubbish anywhere in the city except in an approved incinerator, permitting the burning of wood, tree branches and yard trimmings only on conditions including approval by the Fire Chief, a permit where required, adult supervision and adequate extinguishing agent at hand. The City’s spring clean-up is a separate, City-run program, published for 2026 as running from 30 March to 1 May for junk and debris with appliances collected on a call-in basis between 27 April and 1 May, at which the City’s published refusal list is no garbage, hazardous materials, liquids (paints, oil, antifreeze, etc.), construction debris, tires, or automobiles. The City’s brush collection accepts only debris resulting from trees and shrubs which have been pruned or trimmed, less than twelve (12) inches in diameter and/or five (5) feet in length, does not include collection of cut trees and shrubs or debris resulting from the clearing of land, and states that licensed contractors must remove and dispose of debris from their own work professionally. Program dates and rules are revised annually; confirm current dates with City Public Works on (270) 737-7890.

No container we supply will accept asbestos under any circumstances. Kentucky administers the federal national emission standard for asbestos through 401 KAR 58:025, with notification submitted through the Cabinet’s electronic forms system as Form ID 70 at least ten working days before activities begin. Notification is required for demolition irrespective of whether asbestos is present, and for renovation above the regulatory quantities of regulated asbestos-containing material. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet publishes the position that asbestos removal and disposal from single-family homes or apartments of four or less units is not regulated under Kentucky law. That is a statement about state notification requirements. It is not a statement that the material is safe, that no federal requirement applies, that occupational safety law does not apply, or that any facility will receive it unannounced, and a building of that age should be tested before it is demolished. The Division for Air Quality answers on (502) 564-3999. Where housing predates 1978 the federal renovation, repair and painting rule applies to renovation disturbing painted surfaces; Kentucky is not among the states authorized to administer that program, so certification for it is held with the United States Environmental Protection Agency directly, while lead abatement is administered by Kentucky’s own environmental lead program. Approximately 38.6 percent of Hardin County housing was built before 1980 on American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2019 to 2023; the federal rule’s line is 1978 rather than 1980, and the two are not the same year.

Liquids of every description are excluded from our containers, and the reason is local as well as general. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet describes karst terranes as characterized by the rapid movement of water through underground channels and conduits, which renders karst terranes sensitive to groundwater pollution, and the Kentucky Geological Survey states that pollutants entering a karst aquifer are not filtered. The Kentucky Geological Survey names Elizabethtown, along with Fort Knox and Munfordville, among the karst cities of the Western Pennyroyal region. Every load leaving a site is covered and secured before it moves. Statute, regulation, program dates and fee schedules in the Commonwealth all move; what currently applies is confirmed with the City of Elizabethtown, Hardin County, the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet or the Commonwealth’s published statutes and regulations if you are unsure. Everything set out above describes what those instruments say. How any of them bears on any particular arrangement is a matter for the authority that administers it, and no sentence on this website is to be read as a statement about this company’s own standing before any authority, in either direction.

Refused material found in a container after collection is charged on: the handling it requires, the disposal route it has to take instead, and any penalty that follows from it.

Placement, access and property

Getting the truck safely and lawfully to the point where the container is to stand is the customer’s responsibility, and so is any permission the placement itself requires from whoever governs that ground. Kentucky differs from many states in that construction standards are set statewide rather than locally: KRS 198B.050 requires the department to adopt and promulgate a mandatory Uniform State Building Code establishing standards for the construction of all buildings in the state, and that code is adopted as the 2018 Kentucky Building Code at 815 KAR 7:120 and the 2018 Kentucky Residential Code at 815 KAR 7:125, both effective 3 December 2024. Elizabethtown Code Section 150.01 adopts those codes and names the Department of Planning and Development as the local enforcement agency. Section 150.01(C) establishes, under KRS 198B.060(8), a building inspection program in the city for application to all buildings, including single-family dwellings, which matters because KRS 198B.060(8) otherwise provides that nothing in that subsection requires a single-family dwelling to be permitted or inspected unless a local government has established such a program. Section 154.011 requires construction, demolition, sign and Board of Zoning Adjustment permits and provides that permits become void where work is suspended or abandoned for a period of six months. Permit fees as published in Section 150.16 include demolition at $100 commercial and $50 residential, structure or building moving at $50, and no fee for construction work valued under $10,000, above which a published sliding scale applies; those are the figures as published in the City’s code and current fees should be confirmed with Planning and Development.

Fire requirements in Kentucky are set by the Kentucky Standards of Safety at 815 KAR 10:060, which adopt NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code, 2018 edition, together with NFPA 101 and NFPA 70. NFPA 1’s provisions on combustible waste and refuse are contained in Chapter 19. Section 2(1) of that administrative regulation provides that it shall apply to all buildings except one (1) and two (2) family dwellings, so the state fire code does not reach a container standing on a driveway at a single-family home. Elizabethtown Code Chapter 93 adopts the national fire codes and the Standards of Safety by reference, and the Elizabethtown Fire Department, a City department with three stations, answers placement questions through its Fire Prevention Division on (270) 765-2121. This company has not verified a separation distance or a capacity threshold in the adopted fire code and publishes none; where a container is to stand against a commercial, institutional or multifamily building, the Fire Prevention Division is the authority to ask.

Which permit is engaged, if any, follows from whose ground the container stands on. Where that ground is private — a residential driveway, a rear yard, a private commercial lot — no public right-of-way permission arises at all. This company has not located a City of Elizabethtown ordinance requiring a permit for a container standing entirely on private property, and makes no representation that none exists. Within the Elizabethtown city limits, Elizabethtown Code Chapter 72 contains sections addressing obstruction of parking and double parking (Section 72.01), limitations of stopping and parking (Section 72.03), parking restrictions on the Public Square and on long vehicles (Section 72.11), fire lanes (Section 72.12), cul-de-sacs (Section 72.13) and temporary restrictions administered by the City Engineer (Section 72.44). The text of Sections 72.01 and 72.03 has not been retrieved by this company and is not summarized here; where any part of a container is to stand in a city street or on a sidewalk, contact the City on (270) 765-6121 and Public Works on (270) 737-7890 before delivery. Elizabethtown Code Section 154.135(F) provides that areas for outdoor storage, trash collection or compaction, loading or other such uses shall not be visible from a street and shall not be located within 20 feet of any street, public sidewalk or pedestrian walkway, and names trash dumpsters expressly; that provision sits within the zoning code’s design guidelines for site design and governs permanent trash collection areas on developed commercial and multifamily sites at development plan stage. This company has not established that it applies to a temporary container placed during a project and does not represent that it does.

Where the placement point lies in the right-of-way of a state-maintained highway — including US 31W, US 62, US 31E, Interstate 65 and the parkways — encroachment on that right-of-way is a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet matter rather than a City or county one. The Cabinet’s encroachment permit form is TC 99-1, designated by 603 KAR 5:120, and the district office for this area is KYTC District 4, 310 Valley Creek Road, Elizabethtown, telephone (270) 766-5146. That regulation is written principally about access to state highways; this company has not established that it names a temporary container as a permitted encroachment, states no fee, and makes no representation as to whether a permit is required. Where the address lies within another municipality — including Radcliff, Vine Grove, Sonora, West Point, Upton, Hodgenville, Brandenburg, Bardstown, Leitchfield, Shepherdsville or Munfordville — that city administers arrangements of its own. This company has verified none of them, treats none of them as matching the City of Elizabethtown’s, and refers the customer to that city’s own hall to establish what they are. In unincorporated Hardin County the planning and permitting authority is the Hardin County Planning and Development Commission, 150 N Provident Way, Elizabethtown, telephone (270) 769-5479. Fort Knox is a federal installation spanning three counties; city and county rules do not apply on post, the installation administers its own, and this company claims no access to, affiliation with or endorsement by it. A subdivision covenant, a deed restriction or a landlord’s consent binds the customer in the same way and is not something this company can check on the customer’s behalf. Nothing may be set where it blocks a hydrant, an intersection sight line, a fire lane, a fire escape or the way out of a building.

Having buried services located on private ground is the customer’s to arrange. Kentucky 811 is reached by dialing 811, and the call goes in before anything is dug, driven, augered or pulled down for the work the container is there to serve. Kentucky’s underground facility damage prevention requirements sit at KRS 367.4901 to 367.4917. Notice is required not less than two full working days and not more than ten full working days before work commences, a notification is valid for twenty-one calendar days from the day of the initial request, and within a tolerance zone of eighteen inches either side of a mark the excavator must hand-dig or use non-intrusive means. The statute requires the excavation area to be marked out where the operator requests it or where the location cannot otherwise be accurately identified; this company recommends doing so in every case. No toll-free number for the notification center is published here because none has been verified. Anything on the property that the driver cannot see from the street is to be raised at booking. In this county that list runs: a private well head and a septic tank and field, which a great deal of ground outside the city limits still runs on; sewer, water and storm laterals crossing the drive; irrigation lines; a walkout, window well or basement entry the arm has to swing clear of; a shed, deck or detached garage standing inside that swing; gravel that has gone soft or rutted after a wet week, which is a normal condition in a county with no dry season; an approach that narrows or turns sharply; flatwork poured recently or already cracked; and any low limb or overhead service drop across the run in.

Plywood is laid under the wheels and both rails on residential deliveries as a matter of course, and it spreads the load rather than removing it. Standing several tons of steel and debris on any driveway, apron or gravel pad carries risk that no board eliminates. This company makes no representation whatever about what lies beneath any address. Hardin County lies in a karst region — the Kentucky Geological Survey names Elizabethtown among the karst cities of the Western Pennyroyal — and this company is not qualified to assess ground conditions, does not do so, and does not rely on any map for that purpose; the Kentucky Geological Survey states of its own sinkhole data that it is not recommended for predicting future subsidence. No agency source known to this company attributes sinkhole formation to vehicle weight, and none is asserted here. What this section does address is the surface. Firm, dry ground carries a loaded container; ground softened by a run of wet weather does not, and in a county receiving roughly fifty inches of rain a year with no dry month, softened ground is the ordinary case rather than the unusual one. Turf, a verge, a lawn edge or an unpaved pad is accordingly not treated as a bearing surface for a loaded container in those conditions, and a driver may decline the spot and offer another. Where the customer directs a placement notwithstanding that, the risk of it is the customer’s. This company does not accept liability for damage to a driveway, apron, curb, walkway, lawn, well cover, septic lid or field, irrigation run or buried service arising from a placement the customer selected or approved.

Loading and safety

The top rail is the limit and it is not a guideline. A load standing above it cannot be sheeted, cannot lawfully travel, and will be left where it is until it has been leveled by the customer. Weight is to be spread across the floor rather than heaped at one end. Two categories of material reach lawful transport weight while a container still looks part filled, and both are common in this county: masonry rubble — broken concrete, block, brick, mortar, and tile still bedded in its mortar — and roof tear-off, which is measured in squares and layers rather than by the area of the roof, and where a second course left on the deck doubles the tonnage outright. Loading beneath the rails so that the container can be kept covered on site is the customer’s responsibility: dense material on the floor, light material above it, insulation bagged, cardboard flattened, and absorbent material kept out of the weather. Rain rather than wind is the weather factor that governs loading in this market. Elizabethtown receives roughly fifty inches of precipitation a year with no dry season, May being the wettest month and September the driest, so an uncovered container will take on water in any month of the year. Water crossing the scale is billed like any other weight, and a container that has taken on a substantial volume of it may have to be pumped down before it can be lifted at all. Drywall, carpet, cardboard and insulation are the materials that gain most. Elizabethtown Code Section 92.031(B) additionally makes it a violation to cause or permit to accumulate any material that can be blown away by the wind or other climatic disturbances other than in a covered container, which in practice means insulation, packaging, foam and light sheet material. Winter here is an ice risk rather than a snow-depth one — around five inches of snow in an average year, with December to February lows averaging in the mid twenties — and a glazed driveway or apron changes both where a container may safely be set and whether it can be recovered on the scheduled day, so a fixed date in the winter months is worth flagging when the booking is made rather than on the morning. Nobody is to climb on, stand on or work from a container. Children and animals are to be kept away from it. A container is not to be moved, tipped, jacked, lifted, or have its doors opened by anybody other than this company’s own personnel.

Rental period and collection

The period included is the one stated in the quote. Collection is arranged by telephone when the container is ready to go, and a container that is finished with is better collected than left standing — inside the Elizabethtown city limits, Elizabethtown Code Section 92.031(A) allows no more than 96 consecutive hours for garbage or other material subject to decay other than in a tightly-covered container, so food and kitchen waste do not belong in a roll-off that is going to sit on a driveway for a week, and Section 92.031(F) makes it a violation to fail to dispose of garbage, debris and rubbish at least one time per week. Where a container cannot be reached on the scheduled day because vehicles are parked across the approach, a gate is locked, the load stands above the rail or the placement is otherwise obstructed, the wasted journey may be charged.

Payment

Payment falls due on the terms stated in the quote. Trade and property-management accounts are invoiced on the terms agreed when the account is opened, ordinarily as one consolidated monthly invoice rather than job by job. Balances left outstanding beyond those terms may attract charges to the extent Kentucky law permits.

Cancellation

Canceling or moving a booking costs nothing where reasonable notice is given, and moving one is easier than losing it. A charge may follow only where a truck has already left the yard on 4675 N Dixie Hwy for the address. Two windows in the year fill early enough to be worth planning against rather than improvising around: the weeks of the City’s spring clean-up, when the whole town is emptying its garages at once, and the summer, since the Army’s published position is that PCS season runs from June to August and potentially into September.

Ownership and title

The container remains this company’s property for the whole of the rental and may not be sold, sublet, lent or relocated. Title in whatever has been placed inside it passes to this company when it is collected. Anything of value is therefore to be lifted out before the pull rather than after it — solid doors, hardware, fixtures, cast iron, copper and anything else somebody else would take — because once the container leaves the address it cannot be searched and its contents cannot be returned.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent Kentucky law allows, this company’s total liability arising out of any one rental is limited to the sum paid for that rental. Indirect, incidental and consequential loss is excluded, and that exclusion expressly reaches the cost of a project running late, a trade left standing, a closing date missed or a rental unit turned a week behind schedule.

Website content

Everything published on this site is general information about how work of this kind is done in this county. Size recommendations, weight rules of thumb, quoted ordinance sections, published permit fees and summaries of Kentucky statute and regulation are all indicative and stated as at the date they were written; the authority that administers a requirement is the one to confirm what it currently is. This site says in several places that something could not be established. That phrase is used literally and carries no further implication: it records that this company looked and did not find, not that no requirement exists. Text, photography and branding on this site are this company’s or used under license, and are not to be reproduced without permission.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and any dispute arising under them is for the Kentucky courts sitting in Hardin County. Elizabethtown is the county seat, so that is a courthouse a few minutes from the yard rather than a jurisdiction chosen to be inconvenient.

Any part of this page can be explained over the telephone by the same people who take the bookings: (270) 900-6891, or in writing at info@elizabethtowndumpsterrental.com.