About the Texas Waste Freedom Project
Tracking customer choice, competition, and exclusive waste franchise agreements across Texas.
The Texas Waste Freedom Project is a public research initiative that documents how Texas cities handle solid waste franchises and, specifically, whether those arrangements appear to affect temporary roll-off dumpsters used for construction, remodeling, demolition, roofing, and cleanout projects. We gather public records, ordinances, contracts, news reports, and field reports into one searchable place so contractors, homeowners, journalists, attorneys, city officials, and small-business advocates can find them.
This is a project of American AF Dumpsters. We have a direct stake in these questions, and we hold ourselves to a research standard that keeps the record credible regardless of who is reading it.
Texas Waste Freedom Index
Each city is rated objectively for the tracked roll-off / temporary dumpster market. Ratings describe market structure and do not assert that any law has been violated.
- Multiple qualified providers can compete.
- Approved hauler list or significant limitations.
- Exclusive agreements affecting portions of the market.
- One provider has exclusive rights for the tracked services.
- Subject to active litigation or legal challenge.
How we label records
Every claim carries a confidence level, and we use careful wording on purpose. We do not state that a city violated the law unless a court has ruled that. We do not state that a company has exclusive rights unless that is supported by an ordinance, a contract, or a credible news report. Where something is unconfirmed, we say so plainly with labels like “Needs Verification” or “Source Pending,” and we use phrasing such as “according to the ordinance,” “the lawsuit alleges,” and “the article reported.”
Help us improve the record
If you have a correction, a source document, or first-hand experience with dumpster rules in a Texas city, please submit it. Submissions are reviewed before anything is published.