Wilmington sits at the end of a peninsula. When Hurricane Florence made landfall in September 2018, every access route flooded — I-40, US-74, Highway 421 — and New Hanover County alone produced more than 1.2 million cubic yards of debris. Storm cleanup here is a recurring reality, not a what-if.
Priority Waste runs Wilmington from our Southport location, about thirty minutes south down Highway 133. Same-day delivery when we can. Within 24 hours otherwise. Flat pricing, no call-center circus.
Downtown Wilmington • Wrightsville Beach • Carolina Beach • Kure Beach • Ogden • Porters Neck • Castle Hayne • Midtown • Northchase • Masonboro • Landfall • Mayfaire • Winter Park • Figure Eight Island
Wilmington operates on layered timelines. Beach rental properties at Wrightsville, Carolina, and Kure turn over between booking cycles. Historic homes near the Riverwalk and Sunset Park carry decades of renovation. Castle Hayne is in the middle of a residential surge, with Porters Neck custom builds, Riverlights expansion, and Mayfaire commercial work adding to the mix.
Priority Waste serves Wilmington from our Southport hub — thirty minutes down Highway 133. Same-day when we can. Within 24 hours when we can’t.
Container Rental
Wilmington properties have sizing quirks. Historic district homes near Market Street sit on narrow lots. Beach properties at Wrightsville and Carolina sit on elevated foundations. HOAs at Landfall and Porters Neck have access routes that aren’t obvious from the street. PWI runs the full roll-off range — 12, 15, 20, 20-yard compact, and 30 — from the Southport yard.
Coastal placement note: Soft ground near the beach and elevated beach-home foundations affect where a bin sits. Tell us your address on the booking call.
Contractors & Job Sites
New Hanover County construction is running hot. Castle Hayne residential developments are pushing toward early build-out. Porters Neck custom builds along the Intracoastal continue at pace. Mayfaire and Oleander commercial, historic district loft conversions, and Riverlights expansion all generate substantial construction debris. We drop where the crew is working, you load through the project, we swap or haul when ready.
Concrete, masonry, and roofing tear-offs hit weight thresholds faster than framing and drywall. Mixing heavy materials into a general bin drives disposal costs up. We help you separate streams before the job starts — not after the truck comes back overweight.
• General contractors on Castle Hayne’s new residential developments
• Roofing companies working Wrightsville and Carolina Beach post-storm repairs
• Historic district remodelers converting downtown lofts
• Commercial contractors on the Oleander Drive and Mayfaire corridors
• Custom home builders along the Intracoastal Waterway and Porters Neck
Film industry note: Screen Gems Studios — the largest production facility outside California — generates significant set construction and teardown debris. Call us before the set goes up.
Homeowners & Property Owners
Wilmington is a city of layers. Historic bungalows in Sunset Park carry decades of renovation. Beach cottages at Carolina and Kure have forty years of seasonal accumulation. Newer subdivisions in Porters Neck and Riverlights are barely a decade old and already need their first major cleanout. PWI’s rentals run 12- to 30-yard, sitting as long as the project takes.
Cubic yards of debris collected in New Hanover County alone
Northchase saw three feet of water inside homes. Wrightsboro and Ogden needed 350 water rescues in a single day. UNCW took $140 million in building damage. The city was cut off from the mainland for days. Storm cleanup here isn’t a what-if — it’s a when. We respond fast, not in the multi-day queue that backs up after a major event.
Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach rental properties need a hard reset between seasons — worn furniture, damaged fixtures, accumulated patio gear. A roll-off stages the whole process in one efficient haul rather than multiple transfer station runs before the next booking window opens.
The bungalows in Sunset Park, the townhomes near the Riverwalk, the properties in the Castle Street Arts District — these jobs generate more debris than the scope looks like on day one. Having a container on site from the first swing of the demo hammer keeps the project moving.
Every May and August, the off-campus rental neighborhoods around UNCW generate massive volumes of furniture, mattresses, and household items. Property managers in the Camelot Drive and Independence Boulevard corridors call us specifically for this cycle.
People relocating from larger metros are settling in Ogden, Porters Neck, Masonboro, and Midtown. Many buy homes with the previous owner’s belongings still inside. Getting a property cleared before moving in is one of our most common first calls from new residents.
Tight Sites & Bulk Debris
Some Wilmington job sites just don’t have room for a roll-off. The historic district lots downtown where two houses share a single driveway. Active construction zones with three trades working in the same fifty feet of space. Beach properties with shared driveways and limited turnaround room. Properties where the only access is through a side gate that won’t accommodate a roll-off truck.
That’s where our grapple truck service comes in.
A smaller, open-top container that fits where a standard roll-off can’t go — tight historic lots, multi-trade construction zones, narrow beach properties.
Load construction debris, demolition material, scattered job-site waste, or bulk debris that wouldn’t fit a roll-off — at your pace.
Our grapple truck arrives and services the box using a hydraulic arm that reaches over fences and around obstacles. The grapple loads, the truck hauls, you’re done.
We use grapple service regularly across downtown Wilmington’s historic district, on multi-trade construction sites in Castle Hayne and Porters Neck, and for post-storm debris response when scattered material needs to clear fast.
Call us with the project address and access details. We’ll tell you whether a grapple box, a dump trailer, or a standard roll-off makes the most sense.
The grapple solves two problems a standard roll-off can’t handle:
The grapple box is smaller than a roll-off. It fits historic Wilmington lots, narrow downtown construction sites, and beach properties with shared driveways. And because the truck loads from above with its hydraulic arm, it doesn’t need the swing clearance a roll-off pickup requires.
Fallen trees from a storm. Demolition piles in a yard. Bulk landscaping waste. Material that wouldn’t fit any container — the grapple picks it up directly with the hydraulic arm and loads it straight into the truck bed.
When a Roll-Off Isn't the Right Fit
Some Wilmington projects don’t need a full roll-off. The driveway footprint is too tight. The job is smaller than a container warrants. The HOA doesn’t allow a roll-off at the property. Or the debris is heavy enough that loading over a four-foot wall isn’t practical.
Our dump trailer rental follows the same process as our roll-offs — we deliver it, you fill it, we haul it — but the lower sidewall changes the math. No heaving dense material up and over. Landscapers around Landfall and Porters Neck use them for sod and bulk yard material. Contractors working tight historic district lots in downtown Wilmington grab them when a roll-off can’t navigate the access. Homeowners on Wrightsville and Carolina Beach use them because loading without equipment stays manageable, and they fit on a shared beach driveway where a 20-yard roll-off won’t.
Not sure if a dump trailer or a roll-off is the better fit for your project? Give us a call. We’ll help you figure out the right option based on your property, access, and timeline.
Some Landfall and Porters Neck HOAs don’t permit roll-off containers but allow dump trailers. Check your community rules — if a roll-off is out, we have a workaround.
Concrete, brick, dirt, and dense renovation debris — loading these over a four-foot roll-off wall is a back injury waiting to happen. A trailer’s lower wall keeps it manageable.
A weekend cleanout or a two-day project doesn’t always justify a container sitting on your driveway for a week. A trailer fits short timelines better.
Shared driveways at Wrightsville and Carolina Beach. Narrow historic district lots downtown. A trailer fits where a 20-yard roll-off physically can’t.
Delivery & Logistics
Placement matters more at Wilmington properties than most homeowners expect. Soft ground near the beach strand at Wrightsville and Carolina Beach can shift under container weight. Elevated foundations on coastal cottages affect where a bin can safely sit for days. Narrow shared driveways in older downtown neighborhoods — Ann Street, Front Street, the streets around the Battleship North Carolina — require a driver who knows the truck’s real limits. HOA communities at Landfall and Porters Neck have specific access routes that aren’t obvious from the street. Getting it wrong means repositioning mid-project, which costs time and can damage driveways. Our dumpster drop-off and pick-up gets placement right the first time — no adjustments, no surprises, no callbacks.
Tell us where you want it. Driveway, job site, backyard — our drivers work tight beach-community streets, narrow downtown Wilmington blocks, the active construction zones around Castle Hayne and Porters Neck, and the back roads through Castle Hayne and Murrayville every day.
Once the job is finished or the container is full, just give us a call and we’ll take care of pickup. In most cases we can remove it within 24 hours, helping you keep your driveway, property, or job site clear without unnecessary delays.
Whether you need a container for a quick weekend cleanup at a beach rental between bookings, or a longer rental for a multi-phase renovation in the historic district, we can line it up around your timeline. Flexible rental periods without making the process complicated.
From the historic streets of downtown Wilmington to the beach communities at Kure and Carolina, from the new developments at Castle Hayne to the established neighborhoods in Ogden — our drivers know the routes, the access points, and the timing that out-of-area haulers learn the hard way.
Residential Service
Coastal garages carry a particular kind of accumulated weight — beach gear that didn’t survive the last few seasons, saltwater-damaged tools, crab traps mixed in with holiday decorations, kayaks the family stopped using, outdoor furniture from three hurricanes ago that nobody threw away, and equipment from hobbies the family moved on from years ago.
Our garage cleanout dumpster rental is one of our most consistently requested services across the region. A 12 or 15-yard container drops at the driveway threshold, swing-open rear doors make loading straightforward, and you work through it at your own pace. Fall and early spring are the best windows — sorting a garage in August humidity differs from October. Whether you’re in downtown Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Ogden, Porters Neck, or Castle Hayne, we’ll get it there fast. Give us a call to schedule your garage cleanout dumpster rental.
Full-Service Waste Solutions
Dumpster rental is what most people call us for first — but it’s not all we do. From scheduled commercial waste removal and on-demand garbage collection to portable restroom service, debris hauling, and full-service junk removal, Priority Waste handles the waste problems that don’t fit neatly into a roll-off container. Whether you’re a business owner in Mayfaire managing ongoing waste volume, a contractor in Castle Hayne who needs site facilities, or a homeowner in Wrightsville Beach dealing with storm debris and items that can’t go in a standard bin, there’s a solution here for it. Each service below links to a dedicated page with full details.
Wilmington businesses deal with seasonal volume spikes, construction activity, and high-turnover food service that standard curbside can’t absorb. The restaurant corridor on Market Street, Mayfaire Town Center tenants, medical facilities along 17th Street near Novant Health and New Hanover Regional Medical Center, light industrial operations in the northside corridor, and Screen Gems Studios production operations all need dependable pickup schedules calibrated to actual volume — not a default calendar. Our waste management service covers scheduled commercial removal, baler rental, and compactor rental.
Beach rental turnovers, post-event overflow at the Cucalorus Film Festival and waterfront gatherings, UNCW move-out season volume, restaurant corridor spikes during tourist season, and home project cleanups don’t fit neatly into the weekly curbside schedule. When standard service can’t keep pace, our on-demand garbage collection service responds fast — for residents and businesses from downtown Wilmington to the beach communities, and just as quickly for properties in Ogden, Porters Neck, Castle Hayne, and Masonboro.
Storm cleanup in Wilmington isn’t a planning assumption — it’s a recurring reality. Florence made landfall here in 2018 and left 1.2 million cubic yards of debris in New Hanover County alone. When a hurricane or tropical system tracks through, the debris field runs from Wrightsville and Carolina Beach inland through every neighborhood in the county. Our debris removal service responds fast wherever it lands and handles renovation and landscaping debris year-round.
Electronics, refrigerant appliances — refrigerators, window AC units, and dehumidifiers that Wilmington’s humid coastal climate runs hard and fails regularly — and certain chemicals can’t go in a standard roll-off and require careful, regulation-compliant handling. Our junk removal service provides full-service pickup or container-based removal throughout New Hanover County — from the waterfront streets downtown and the beach communities along the coast to rural properties out toward Castle Hayne and the northside.
Through our TOI TOI partnership, we deliver clean, properly serviced portable restroom units for job sites and outdoor events across New Hanover County — from multi-week construction builds at Castle Hayne and Porters Neck to active film production locations around Screen Gems, and outdoor events at Greenfield Lake Park, community gatherings along the Riverwalk, and weddings and festivals throughout the region.
Through a trusted fencing partnership, we deliver chain-link panel fencing and crowd control barricades for job sites and outdoor events across Wilmington & New Hanover County — from active construction zones in Castle Hayne and Porters Neck needing OSHA-compliant 6-foot site security, to film production locations around Screen Gems requiring equipment perimeters, and pedestrian barricades for events along the Riverwalk, at Greenfield Lake Park, and at community gatherings and festivals throughout the region.
Why Wilmington Calls Us First
Every waste company says they’re reliable. The difference shows up at 7 AM when the dumpster is either there or it isn’t.
When you call Priority Waste, you’re talking to someone local — someone who knows the difference between staging a container at a tight beach-street property on Wrightsville versus an active commercial site at Mayfaire, or a custom build along the Intracoastal in Porters Neck. Who knows when a grapple truck is the better call than a roll-off because the access just won’t work. Who understands that a delivery to Landfall involves a different HOA conversation than one to a job site on Oleander Drive or a beach rental at Kure.
Our trucks cover a wide sweep of New Hanover County every day — the Wrightsville Beach strand in the morning, downtown Wilmington and Midtown by midday, the Castle Hayne construction corridor through the afternoon, the residential communities of Ogden and Porters Neck, and the beach drives at Carolina and Kure. The film production zones around Screen Gems, the busy retail corridors at Mayfaire and Oleander, the quiet streets of Sunset Park and the Castle Street Arts District — this is our territory, and our drivers know it the way people only know roads they’ve driven for years.
That’s not a company value statement. That’s just what local looks like in practice.
A real person who knows Wilmington, can confirm your delivery window, and knows when Highway 133 beats I-140. Not a dispatch queue in another state.
Florence left 1.2 million cubic yards of debris in New Hanover County. We've done storm cleanup at scale here. Fast response when the next event tracks through.
Roll-off, dump trailer, or grapple — we'll tell you which one actually fits your project, not just what we have on the lot.
What we tell you on the call is what shows up on the invoice. Weight thresholds and disposal costs discussed upfront — not billed as surprises.
Call (910) 899-6133 or request a quote online. No hold music. No runaround. Just a local team ready to help.
