How to Dispose of Pressure-treated lumber

Pressure-treated lumber are accepted, but the conditions change what you pay. The container most people use is a 20-yard, a median of $419 nationally, typically $350 to $490 depending on where you are.

What it costs

Typically $350 to $490 depending where you are, including 2 tons and 7 days before the extras start.

Those are medians of prices companies publish themselves, from 1,395 of them. Your own town's figure is on the price index, and the calculator will add the weight and the days for you.

Where it costs most and least

A $364 difference for the same container.

How much pressure-treated lumber weigh

A 2x6x8 of treated pine is about 20 lb, more when wet.

The rule that catches people

Accepted in most markets but banned from burn and from clean-wood recycling, so it has to be declared.

Worth knowing. Keep treated deck boards out of a clean-wood load or the whole container gets reclassified and repriced.

The cheaper route, if you have one

Nothing better; landfill is the route for treated timber.

Getting it ready

Treated timber cannot be burned and cannot be chipped for mulch, which rules out most of the cheap routes ordinary lumber has. It goes to landfill as general waste. Pull the fixings if you are separating it from clean wood, and keep the two apart, because clean untreated lumber has recycling options that treated timber contaminates.

Mention it when you book rather than after. It costs nothing declared and costs more found. See what else fits in a 20 yard.

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