Service area
Seventeen communities in Saginaw County, grouped by the kind of government each one actually is: one city, twelve townships and four other incorporated places. Here is where we go — and where our information about each one stops.
Every container on this site runs out of 3102 Sawyer Dr, Saginaw, MI 48601. That is a postal address, and we are going to be precise about what it is not. Like a great many addresses that read “Saginaw,” we have not been able to establish from public records which of the county's thirty subdivisions the parcel sits in: the Census Bureau's geocoder cannot resolve the street number at all, and the one published coordinate we could find locates the street rather than the building. We are not going to guess on our own behalf any more than we would on yours.
What we can give you is distance, labeled for what it is. Every figure on this page and on the pages below is a straight-line measurement from that street coordinate to the community's own Census internal point, and it carries about a mile of uncertainty at the origin. We publish no travel times and no road mileage anywhere on this site, because the honest version of that number depends on the day and the dishonest version reads better.
Below, the seventeen are grouped by what kind of unit each one is, because that is the thing that decides who answers the phone about your curb. Saginaw County has 30 county subdivisions — 3 cities and 27 townships — plus 5 villages inside townships, and the Census Bureau puts the county's population at 190,124. The City of Saginaw is the only jurisdiction on our list whose refuse ordinance we read in full and quote by section. For the other sixteen the record gave us county, government type, 2020 Census population and that straight-line figure, and nothing further. Each of those pages says exactly that, in those words, rather than borrowing the City's sections and hoping nobody checks.
The service area
The seventeen communities we cover, and the nineteen units of government over them, with the straight-line distance from our yard beside each one.
A Home Rule City, and the one jurisdiction on this list whose refuse ordinance we were able to read in full and quote by section. Chapter 50 is current through Ordinance O-274, passed 22 September 2025 and effective 2 October 2025.
Twelve townships. A township board answers here, not a city hall. We could not establish refuse or container rules for any of them and we do not publish rules we have not read. The one thing we did establish is Saginaw Charter Township's adopted fire code, the 2018 International Fire Code with amendments, which is a different edition from the City's.
Two cities and two villages that are not the City of Saginaw. A village sits inside its township, so a village address has two boards over it at once; and Zilwaukee and Frankenmuth each share their name with a separate township that is its own unit of government.
Services
A container on your own driveway for a cleanout municipal collection was never built to take. In the City of Saginaw § 50.05 caps a household at 35 gallons, 50 pounds and 20 bags a week; outside the City we could not establish the local limit.
Learn moreContainers and swap-outs for shops, offices, restaurants and property managers across Saginaw County, on whatever cadence the job actually runs at.
Learn moreJobsite roll-offs for builders working under the Michigan Building Code 2021 — and, for houses, the Michigan Residential Code 2015. The split is real and it catches people out.
Learn moreTear-off containers sized for shingle weight rather than shingle volume, which is why a roof almost never belongs in the biggest box on the lot.
Learn moreFive container sizes, from the 10 yard upward, running into the City and the sixteen other communities on our list — every one of them a separate government.
Learn moreA page about availability rather than a promise. Call and ask what the board looks like today, and you will get a straight answer either way.
Learn moreThe container stays on your driveway and you load it on your own clock — no appointment window to sit through and no crew in the house.
Learn moreUnhurried container service for families clearing a long-held house, where the sorting matters more than the speed and nobody should be rushed.
Learn moreContainers for gut-outs, garages and small structures — and the notification question, which applies below the asbestos thresholds too, at $100 and ten working days.
Learn moreDedicated low-fill containers for concrete, block and tear-out, because dense material reaches the weight a loaded truck can lawfully carry with most of the box still empty.
Learn moreA container sized for bulk after a storm or a clearing job. In the City of Saginaw § 50.06(I) will not collect the result of contract work, and it names tree trimming.
Learn moreSizes
| Size | Dimensions | Capacity | What fills it first | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Yard Dumpster | about 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high | about 50-70 kitchen-size trash bags | Weight, with the box still half empty | Concrete, block, tile, dirt and roof tear-off. |
| 15 Yard Dumpster | about 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 80-100 kitchen-size trash bags | Usually weight, on a mixed load | Garage clearing, flooring tear-out and one heavy room. |
| 20 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 110-130 kitchen-size trash bags | Either, depending what goes in | Most remodels, and a house being emptied room by room. |
| 30 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high | about 170-190 kitchen-size trash bags | Volume, on bulky light material | Multi-room work and a full estate clearance. |
| 40 Yard Dumpster | about 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high | about 230-250 kitchen-size trash bags | Volume, almost always | New construction and bulky demolition waste. |
Talk to a real person
Call (989) 272-9034 and give us the address. We will tell you what we established about that community, and say plainly where the record ran out.
Call and ask what the board looks like today
Answers
The 17 on this page. The City of Saginaw itself; twelve townships — Buena Vista, Carrollton, Kochville, Saginaw Charter, Blumfield, Bridgeport, Spaulding, James, Thomas, Tittabawassee, Taymouth and Swan Creek; and four other incorporated places, the cities of Zilwaukee and Frankenmuth and the villages of Birch Run and St. Charles. If your address is not on the list, call and ask rather than assuming the answer is no.
Because in Michigan the type of unit is what changes the answer. Saginaw County has 30 county subdivisions, 3 cities and 27 townships, plus 5 villages that sit inside their townships. A city hall, a township board and a village board are three different offices, and only one jurisdiction on our list has refuse rules we were able to read and quote by section.
Not from the mailing address, no. We checked two addresses that both read Saginaw, MI 48601 and found one inside the City of Saginaw and one in Buena Vista Charter Township. A ZIP code is postal geography. The county's own property and mapping records settle it, and we will say plainly when we do not know — including about our own street, which we have not been able to establish either.
Only inside the City. Sections 50.05 and 50.06, which we quote on the City page, are City of Saginaw ordinances and they stop at the city line. For the other sixteen communities here we could not establish a refuse ordinance, a container rule, a permit requirement or a fee, so those pages state none. Call that township or village directly.
Call and ask what the board looks like today. We publish no delivery guarantee and no lead time, because we are not going to make a promise we might not keep. You will get a straight answer on the phone, including when the answer is that the day is already full.
Yes, and most of the week runs that way. Put something physical on the ground where you want the box to stand — a cone, a stake, a line of spray chalk — and on the phone describe what the driver is going to meet at the curb: a code on a gate, a shared approach, a limb hanging over the only line in. Keep your phone to hand that morning. If what he finds is not what you described, he calls you from the street instead of deciding for you.
Ask. The list on this page is Saginaw County; Bay City and Midland are in other counties and are not ours. If your address sits near the edge of this footprint, call and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach it or whether you are better served by someone nearer.
