About Mt Pleasant Dumpster Rental Group

How this started

Ryan Salisbury had worked construction and hauling around Mt Pleasant and Isabella County for years when he started the company with a single truck and one container in 2014. He'd spent long enough on job sites to know exactly what went wrong with dumpsters: containers that turned up late or in the wrong size, prices that changed once the load crossed a scale, and out-of-town haulers who didn't know the run to the C&D landfill up in Harrison, the Michigan rules on burning, or how heavy this glacial clay gets after a thaw.

The idea was simple: run it like a Mt Pleasant outfit that actually knows Mt Pleasant. More than a decade in, the operating principle hasn't moved: tell people the truth about what they need, protect the property, keep the job clean, know exactly where the debris goes, and charge the number that was quoted.

What we actually do differently

We know the local rules and where the debris goes. In Mt Pleasant the recycling center won't take construction debris, and Michigan's EGLE prohibits burning it. So a real project's debris goes covered to a licensed construction-and-demolition landfill - the City points large loads to the Northern Oaks Landfill up in Harrison - with Freon appliances, tires, electronics and brush routed to the right place, and clean metal and concrete kept separate for recycling. We know the run and the county programs cold, and we keep the job clean and compliant. On the day, that's the whole job.

We recommend smaller containers. This one surprises people. Dense material - plaster, tile, concrete and the wet glacial clay - reaches a container's tonnage allowance while it still looks half empty. Recommending the 15 yard instead of the 20, or a dedicated 10 for the concrete, costs us revenue and saves the customer money. We do it anyway.

We're built for a college town and hard Michigan winters. Mt Pleasant is a Central Michigan University town, so much of the work is student move-outs, rental turnovers and campus-area remodels - bulky and dense debris both - and winter cleanup is a way of life here, not an exception. When a storm or the spring thaw comes through and the whole area needs containers at once, being a local crew is what lets us respond - and we size a storm container to the mixed debris and get it out fast.

One number, covered loads. The flat rate covers delivery, the rental period, collection, the disposal and a stated tonnage allowance, with the overage rate quoted in the same breath. And every load leaves covered and secured for the haul, as Michigan requires. No fuel surcharge, no environmental fee appearing on an invoice for the first time.

Why local knowledge matters here

Mt Pleasant is the seat of Isabella County, a Chippewa River town in mid-Michigan about 70 miles north of Lansing on US-127 and M-20 - the home of Central Michigan University and the Chippewas, once the "Oil Capital of Michigan" in the 1920s, now a college town anchored by the university and the Saginaw Chippewa community. That mix shapes the work. Student move-outs and rental turnovers near campus, established neighborhoods seeing remodel after remodel, and the older homes giving up dense material on a gut. And nearly every job that moves earth hits the sandy loam and glacial clay till that heaves with deep winter frost.

Then there's the regulatory reality that shapes all of it: construction debris being barred from the recycling center, the Michigan EGLE restrictions on burning it, the licensed C&D landfill and the county recycling programs that take the rest, the recycling of clean metal and concrete, the ban on burning treated lumber, and the covered-load requirement on every haul. A company that works the system every day knows all of it. We quote each job on what it actually is, and we'll explain the difference if you want to hear it.

The people you'll deal with

• Ryan Salisbury — Owner & Founder. Years in local construction and hauling before starting the company. Still takes sizing calls, particularly on anything involving concrete, glacial clay, heavy demolition or a tricky placement near campus.
• Kyle Tanner — Operations Manager. Runs the schedule, the swaps and the contractor and property-management accounts, and knows which runs across Isabella County a loaded truck can and can't make in a day. If you need a same-day swap, he's the one who makes it happen.
• Marcus DeYoung — Lead Driver. Has been placing containers on mid-Michigan driveways for years and sizes a load by eye better than most. If he says a 30 won't fit your lot, it won't.
• Renee Kowalski — Customer Care Lead. First voice on the phone most mornings, and the person who will walk you through the local rules, what can and can't go in the container, and where the electronics, tires, appliances and brush need to go.

Where we work

Mt Pleasant, Shepherd, Rosebush, Weidman, Winn, Lake Isabella, Beal City, Clare, Harrison, Farwell, Alma, St. Louis, Ithaca, Coleman and Remus across Isabella County and mid-Michigan. If you're further out than that, call anyway and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right company for the job.

• Mt Pleasant, MI
• Shepherd, MI
• Rosebush, MI
• Weidman, MI
• Winn, MI
• Lake Isabella, MI
• Beal City, MI
• Clare, MI
• Harrison, MI
• Farwell, MI
• Alma, MI
• St. Louis, MI
• Ithaca, MI
• Coleman, MI
• Remus, MI