Delaware County, or “Delco,” if you are a local, is a community with a lot of history behind it. Like many counties in America, Delaware County gets its name from a nearby waterway; in this case, the Delaware River. The Delaware River is one of the largest rivers on the east coast, running all the way from southern New York, through Pennsylvania, and into the Atlantic ocean between New Jersey and Delaware. Every waterway in Delaware County runs into the Delaware River, and the river also holds a special place in American history. During the American Revolutionary War, George Washington snuck across the Delaware River in the middle of the night to launch a sneak attack on the German mercenaries in New Jersey. Not only is it geographically and biologically significant, but it is also home to one of the turning points of the war for independence!
Chester City, a city in Pennsylvania and part of Delaware County, is worth looking at with a special lens. Chester City is both the largest city in Delaware County as well as the oldest city in Pennsylvania. In Chester City, sports are a big part of the culture. America´s longest-standing baseball league, the Delco League, calls Chester City home. The Delco League has been active for over one hundred years, with championships dating all the way back to 1908! Chester City is also the home base for the Philadelphia Union, an up and coming major league Soccer team. And although these sports teams offer a lot of fun for locals and tourists, it does come with a cost. Because if there is anything that comes along with large sporting events, it is garbage; as a result, there are large amounts of trash around stadiums, such as old containers of food, empty cups, and tossed off tickets to games. Obviously, this is not something that you can just leave on the street.
Luckily, there is a way to combat this steady accumulation of garbage. Typically, there will be enormous dumpsters around stadiums and fields where sports events will be held. They are not unlike the types of dumpsters that you might see on a large construction project. And enormous is not an overstatement– they can measure up to forty cubic yards. Naturally, they require specially manufactured trucks to rearrange, empty, and replace these huge roll-off dumpsters. However, these are a little different from the trucks you might expect, such as bulldozers, forklifts, or other heavy trucks with loading arms in the front. The roll-off dumpsters in question, as the name suggests, are rolled from the back of their truck to where they will be set up. Then, once the event has concluded or the dumpster is full, they are then rolled back up onto the truck and carried to a designated site to be emptied. After the contents are emptied out of the dumpster, they are then further disposed of and the roll-off dumpster can be carried to the next place that it is needed!
When it comes to dumpster rental in Delaware County, though, this is far from your only option. After all, a dumpster as huge as the roll-off dumpsters that we have been discussing is only really necessary for large jobs like sporting events. For most organizations, that size of the dumpster is simply unnecessary and ultimately more trouble than it is really worth. Because of this, it is more common for smaller businesses, as well as schools, to rent out smaller, less unwieldy dumpsters. These dumpsters are typically emptied on-location, rather than being taken to a designated dumping site. This normally happens once a week, making these dumpsters closer to ordinary garbage cans rather than the enormous dumpsters we talked about earlier. Organizations that opt to use these types of dumpsters just do not need anything bigger. If you are not producing enough garbage to regularly fill a roll-off dumpster, there really no reason for it. These smaller dumpsters can also be used for short term projects, such as home renovations as well as substantial landscaping projects. Although these types of jobs can sometimes result in fairly large amounts of garbage, oftentimes they will not require a forty-yard roll-off dumpster, since they are normally used in the short term.