Data sources

Dumps Nearby lists 18,472 places where you can drop off waste. Here is where each piece of information comes from.

U.S. EPA Disaster Debris Recovery Tool

The EPA's national list of landfills, transfer stations, recyclers and hazardous waste facilities (updated August 2026). It gives us names, addresses, phone numbers and which materials a site handles. 16,634 of our listings start here. License: U.S. EPA data for public use. EPA: Disaster Debris Recovery Tool

U.S. EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)

EPA data on about 2,600 municipal landfills, including whether they are open or closed, who owns and operates them, and how many tons they take in each year. We use it to drop closed landfills and to add ownership and tonnage (1,194 listings). EPA: LMOP database

OpenStreetMap

Volunteer-mapped transfer stations and recycling centers, often with opening hours and websites (2,957 listings use it). © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.

Our own checks

For the most populated counties we look up every public drop-off site on the county's, city's or operator's own website and record hours, fees, residency rules, accepted and refused items, with the source link and the month we checked. Those listings carry a "Verified" label (1,187 so far). We never estimate prices: if no rate is published, the page says so.

Places and ZIP codes

County boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau (via us-atlas), city names and populations from GeoNames, ZIP codes from public Census data.

Corrections

Fees and hours change. If something is wrong, send us a correction; we check it against the official source and update the page.