Lehigh Dumpster

Before you rent

City curbside pickup or a roll-off box?

Town trash service in this valley is built for weekly bags, not remodel debris. Here is what the towns that publish limits will take at the curb, and where a box takes over.

Allentown

  • Bulk items and construction material go out only on the second collection night (Wednesday, Thursday or Friday).
  • Limit: one bulk item (sofa, dresser, toilet) or 40 pounds of contained construction material such as lumber, drywall or tile.
  • The recycling drop-off at 1400 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. is open 24/7 but takes no construction debris, wood, window glass, mattresses or furniture.
  • Large piles and cleanouts at the curb draw tickets from SWEEP officers.

Source: City of Allentown Trash Limits Rules 2025 (PDF), read Nov 11, 2026.

Whitehall Township

  • No construction debris at the curb.
  • For a DIY project or major cleanout, the township points residents to a Bagster bag or a commercial dumpster company.

Source: whitehalltownship.org/trash, read Nov 11, 2026.

Bethlehem

  • Every property owner must arrange collection with a hauler (Article 1162.05).
  • A business or apartment building that needs a dumpster gets it approved by the city first.

Lower Macungie

  • Large dumpsters for cleanups and remodels are ordered from a hauler of your choice.
  • Check with Public Works before a box goes on a public street or driveway.

When a box makes sense

Allentown's curb limit is 40 pounds of construction material a week. A small bathroom tear-out produces far more than that. Once the debris will not fit the weekly limit, the choices are a rented box, repeated trips to a landfill, or a bag-style container picked up by the hauler. The landfills page lists the self-haul rates.