We clean garbage cans in 59 ZIP codes around Greater Cincinnati. Mason is one of the handful where our truck is out on the road nearly every week of the month.
We service hundreds of households in 45040, and that many driveways in one town teaches you a few things about Mason specifically.
Warren County pickup is great for you and brutal on your can
Mason is Rumpke, weekly, with weekly recycling. That is genuinely one of the better setups in the metro. It is also the reason your can gets bad faster than your cousin’s in Hyde Park.
Weekly service means the can never gets a dry week. It gets emptied, and within a day or two it is refilled on top of whatever film the last load left behind. Nothing ever fully dries out. Add a closed plastic box sitting in a Mason driveway in July and you have a slow cooker running twenty four hours a day. Chicken juice, dog waste, spilled milk, a diaper or two, and 90 degree heat.
Rumpke takes what is in the can. Nobody takes what is stuck to it. Left long enough, that is how you end up with maggots, and if you are staring at some right now, start with what to do about maggots today.
What hundreds of Mason driveways look like
A few things we did not expect until we looked:
- Two cans is the Mason standard. The large majority of our Mason households have exactly two, almost always garbage plus recycling. Three cans is a distant second.
- Mason cannot decide between monthly and quarterly. The two plans are close to a dead heat here. In most towns one of them clearly wins.
- We are in 45040 every weekday. Never weekends.
Why we only come on garbage day or the day after
This is the part most people do not think about, and it is the whole job. We clean on your garbage day or the day after, because the can has to be empty. Cleaning a full can accomplishes nothing. Two days later your can is loaded again and we have wasted your money and our water.
It also means you do not need to be home, and you do not need to do anything. Leave the cans where the truck left them.
What actually happens in your driveway
Our truck arrives carrying its own water. We heat it to roughly 200 degrees and run it through high pressure spray heads that hit every inch of the inside of the can, plus the lid and the outside. Then we sanitize and deodorize.
The part that separates this from a Saturday with your hose: every drop of the dirty water gets captured in our tank. It does not go into your grass, down your driveway, or into a Warren County storm drain. That is also why a garden hose is not a substitute. You cannot heat water to 200 degrees with it, and you have nowhere to put what comes back out.
Honestly, do you need this?
Not everybody does. If you bag everything tightly, your can lives in the garage, and you have never once opened the lid and stepped back, you are probably fine.
The Mason households that sign up almost always have one of these: a dog, kids in diapers, a can that sits in full sun, or one bad summer with maggots that they are not repeating. If two or more of those are you, this is worth it. If none of them are, save your money.
What garbage can cleaning costs in Mason
No contracts, no hidden fees, no upsell for a premium foam package.
| Cans | Monthly | Every Other Month | Quarterly | One Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 can | $26 | $30 | $34 | $55 |
| 2 cans | $32 | $36 | $40 | $70 |
| 3 cans | $42 | $48 | $53 | $95 |
| 4 cans | $52 | $60 | $66 | $120 |
Since two cans is the Mason norm, that is the row most of your neighbors are on: $32 a month, $40 quarterly, or $70 for a single deep clean if you just want to see what it looks like first. More cans or a commercial setup, just ask.
Get your Mason cans cleaned
We have been doing this since 2018, we have cleaned more than 110,000 cans, and we hold a 5.0 star rating across more than 500 Google reviews. We are local. We are not a national franchise with a Cincinnati phone number.