[cyclotic]

That was more than just dump trucks. They said it was 850 roll off dumpsters. those hold 40 yards each. Two of them will fill up the average semi trailer, so these brave friends of the earth left behind almost 500 semi trailers full of trash. That’s almost enough to start their own landfill.

[PIF]

I was thinking of those really big quad axle dump trucks holding up to 30 tons or the really really big ones used in open pit mines which hold over 400 tons.

ordinary dump truck

Older Quad

Open pit dump truck

However, trucks haul by weight not yardage. So you cannot extrapolate from volume/roll-off to volume/semi unless you know the weight of each dumpster. Semis carry about 70,000 lbs which is 35 tons.

Since there was a lot of snow/water content the weigh of each roll-off would be more than ordinarily encountered.

If a roll off is too heavy (or over full), then the truck pulling it up will not be able and the roll-off will have to be lightened (manually)

Best not to think of the stuff they picked up as trash (newspapers, candy bar wrappers, plastic bags, etc) - but as very smelly garbage including rotting food and 5 gal buckets of human waste.