What Can’t Go in a Dumpster in Ocala and Florida

Published 2026-10-07 by BrickCity Roll Off

Why the list exists

Most of what comes out of a renovation or a job site goes straight into one of our containers: wood, drywall, roofing, flooring, tile, concrete, brick and plaster. A short list is kept out by Florida law or by the disposal site’s rules, and a load that includes them causes trouble at the scale. Here is what stays out and where it goes instead.

Florida’s landfill bans

Florida Statute 403.708 says a person who knows the nature of these wastes “may not dispose of such solid waste in landfills”: lead-acid batteries, used oil, yard trash in lined Class I landfills (with exceptions), and white goods. Keep batteries and oil out of the container entirely. Tell us about appliances and yard waste, because we handle both separately.

Appliances (white goods)

Florida law defines white goods as “discarded air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances,” and keeps them out of landfills. Marion County’s Baseline site takes appliances and metals as their own category, so they go to metal recycling. Tell us when you book and we will keep them separate.

Tires

Florida law says “whole waste tires may not be deposited in a landfill as a method of ultimate disposal,” and that waste tires may only be disposed of at a permitted solid waste management facility. Keep them out of the container. Marion County’s Baseline site takes tires at their own rate.

Paint, chemicals and mercury

Paint, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals and automotive fluids are household hazardous waste, and liquids do not belong in a roll-off. Marion County residents who pay the County’s solid waste assessment can take household hazardous waste, batteries and medication to the County’s recycling centers; inside Ocala city limits, ask the City’s Sanitation service (352-351-6697). Florida law also says a mercury-containing device, such as an old thermostat, “shall not knowingly be incinerated or disposed of in a landfill.”

Yard waste

Brush, branches and stumps are fine in a container of their own. Marion County prices yard waste at Baseline separately from household and construction debris, so a clean yard-waste load is the cheaper one. Inside Ocala city limits, we bring yard-waste containers for land clearing on a construction project, which Florida law counts as construction and demolition debris.

Asbestos

Asbestos never rides in one of our containers. If a demolition or renovation removes asbestos-containing material above the Asbestos NESHAP thresholds, a Notice of Renovation or Demolition must reach FDEP at least 10 working days before work starts; for Marion County that is FDEP’s Central District (407-897-4100). Older homes are the ones to have checked before a gut renovation, and about 43 percent of Ocala’s housing was built before 1980.

Household trash inside Ocala city limits

This is the Ocala-specific one. The City collects all solid waste inside city limits except construction and demolition debris and recyclables, so household trash and junk do not go in a private roll-off there. Florida law adds that mixing construction and demolition debris with other solid waste makes the load something other than C&D. Keep a city-limits container to renovation, roofing and demolition debris, and we keep everyone on the right side of the line.

What does go in

Wood, drywall, plaster, roofing shingles, concrete, brick, block, tile, siding, windows, cabinets, fixtures and flooring, and, outside Ocala city limits, furniture and household junk too. Call (352) 644-8330 if you are unsure about a specific item and we will tell you before you load it.

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