Dubuque Metropolitan Sanitary Landfill

Dubuque Metropolitan Sanitary Landfill is the large landfill out on Highway 20 West that both local homeowners and commercial haulers use for disposing trash. It’s a working site with constant truck traffic and heavy equipment moving and compacting material.

Expect an entrance booth and a scale where vehicles stop to be weighed; tipping fees are typically charged by weight, so there’s usually a weigh-in and a weigh-out. Pull up in single file-larger trucks and trailers line up and backing room can be tight. The site is mostly gravel and dirt with big mounded cells and dozers; it can get dusty and noisy, especially on busy days. Weekends and spring cleanup periods are the busiest, so plan for possible waits.