Garbage - Frontloader

General Garbage is mostly removed from campus via frontloader dumpsters and frontloader garbage trucks. Frontloader service is a relatively inexpensive way to remove waste off campus. The service can easily be charged back to a customer, building, and/or department, if necessary.

Service
• Frontloader dumpsters are easy and quick to service and easily relocated.

• Dumpster range in sizes from two to eight cubic yards.
• PSSI can service these dumpsters up to five times per week, Monday through Friday.
• Any dumpster servicing a food service area must be sanitized once a month.
• The least expensive service is called a drive-at where the garbage truck lines up with the dumpster and empties it without moving the box by hand.
• A more expensive option is to have a dismount service, where the driver moves the dumpster by hand into the correct position, empties the bin, and then pushes it by hand back to its original location.
• The garbage dumpsters on campus are painted black.

• A six cubic yard dumpster has a footprint of approximately 6x6 feet with an additional two feet on each side for clearance.

• Only dumpsters four cubic yards and smaller can have dismount service. All dumpsters five cubic yards and larger must have drive-at service.
• In order to service the dumpster, the truck needs 45 feet of access and should not have any overhead hazards (i.e. wires and tree branches).
• A concrete pad should be laid underneath all dumpster locations extending under the front wheels of the truck during the dumping process.
• Enclosures should have an inside curb at the bottom to prevent dumpsters from damaging sides of enclosure.

Specifications subject to change. To determine the level of service needed for new projects or for more information, please contact Julie Muir at PSSI at (650) 321-4236 or juliem@pssi.stanford.edu.

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