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Soil & clean
fill bins
Excavation spoil, sod, clay and stone. Keep it clean and it's the cheapest load we haul — and the truck that takes your spoil away can bring your topsoil or Granular A back on the same run.
Dry topsoil runs around a ton per cubic yard. Wet clay is closer to a ton and a half, and after two days of rain an open excavation gives you the wet number, not the dry one. That's why fill goes in the small bins only, and why we'd rather you overestimate the weight than get a surprise on the scale ticket.
What actually counts as "clean fill"
Clean fill is soil, sand, stone, clay, brick and concrete with nothing else mixed in. No wood, no plastic, no metal, no root mat full of landscape fabric, no garbage. Kept genuinely clean, it's the cheapest load on our price list, because it isn't waste at all — it goes to a site that needs fill, or to an aggregate recycler.
The moment something else goes in, it stops being clean fill. One roll of geotextile or a couple of fence posts turns the whole bin into mixed waste and it's billed at the mixed rate. This is the single biggest avoidable cost on a landscaping or excavation job, and it costs nothing to avoid — just don't let the crew use the fill bin as the general bin. If you need both, ask and we'll drop two.
Excess soil rules in Ontario — read this before you dig
Since Ontario's excess soil regulation came into force, soil leaving a project site is treated as a regulated material rather than plain garbage. Depending on the size and type of the project, the project leader can be responsible for characterising the soil, identifying where it's going, keeping hauling records, and in some cases registering the project before any soil moves.
Small residential jobs are generally outside all of that. Commercial, institutional and larger construction sites frequently are not — and the obligation sits with the project leader, not with the hauler.
We'll haul to whatever receiving site your documentation specifies and give you the tickets to prove it. What we won't do is tell you whether your project triggers the regulation — that's a question for your environmental consultant or the Ministry. If you're on a commercial site and nobody has raised it yet, raise it before the excavator shows up.
Contaminated soil is a different service
If there's any history of fuel storage, a filled-in oil tank, industrial use or an obvious smell or staining in the excavation, that soil isn't fill and it can't go in a standard bin. It needs testing and a licensed receiving facility. Call us and describe what you're seeing — we'd far rather have that conversation on the phone than have a load rejected at a scale house with your name on the ticket.
Bins we send for soil & fill
| Bin | Dimensions | Included tonnage | Typical job | Flat rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 yard | 12' × 8' × 3.5' | 1.5 tons | Garden bed strip-out, small footing dig, sod removal | $349 |
| 14 yard | 12' × 7' × 4' | 2 tons | Pool spoil, window well, patio sub-grade, larger regrade | $399 |
Rough sizing rule: excavated soil "fluffs" — a cubic yard in the ground becomes roughly 1.25 cubic yards once it's dug out and loose. So a 10' × 10' area taken down 12 inches is about 3.7 loose cubic yards, not 3. Work out your dig in cubic yards, add a quarter, then check the weight against the tonnage above rather than the volume. Soil almost always maxes out on weight first.
What goes in a fill bin
Yes — clean fill
- Excavation spoil and subsoil
- Topsoil
- Clay and hardpan
- Sand and screening
- Gravel, stone and river rock
- Sod and turf (soil attached, no plastic netting)
- Broken concrete and brick mixed with soil
- Old granular driveway base
No — this makes it mixed waste
- Wood, roots, stumps and branches
- Landscape fabric and geotextile
- Plastic edging, pipe and vapour barrier
- Metal, wire and fence posts
- Asphalt (ask for an asphalt bin)
- Garbage, packaging and construction debris
- Contaminated or petroleum-affected soil
- Anything on the prohibited list
Sod is a judgement call. Stripped turf with soil attached is fill. Turf grown on plastic netting, or a bin of sod that's mostly root mat and thatch, is organic waste and gets priced differently. If you're stripping a whole lawn, mention it when you book and we'll tell you which it is.
The Royal advantage
Spoil out.
Topsoil in.
Digging is the only trade where the waste and the supply are the same shape. You take a yard of clay out and put a yard of triple mix, screening or ¾" clear back in — and traditionally you pay two companies to drive the same route on the same day.
We're a dump trucking company. The truck collecting your spoil is coming back past the site with an empty box. Filling it with your topsoil on the way costs you one delivery instead of two.
One vendor, one delivery window, one invoice — and no crew standing in a hole waiting on a soil truck.
Tell us it's fill
Say what you're digging and roughly how much. It sets the bin size and the disposal rate.
Bin lands on boards
Placed as close to the dig as access allows, so you're not barrowing spoil across a finished lawn.
Load clean, level with the rail
Keep roots, fabric and plastic out and you stay on the clean-fill rate all the way through.
Spoil out, material back
Triple mix, topsoil, Granular A, ¾" clear, sand or screening — dropped where you want it, same trip.
What it costs
A 10 yard fill bin is $349 and a 14 is $399, flat — delivery, 7-day rental, pickup and disposal up to the included tonnage. Clean fill is the cheapest disposal we do, which is precisely why keeping the load clean is worth being strict about with your crew.
Over the tonnage, you're billed by the ton against a certified scale ticket that goes on your invoice. Soil is the material most likely to go over, because water weight doesn't announce itself — a bin loaded dry on Monday and rained into all week gets heavier sitting there.
Material on the return trip is quoted per tonne plus one delivery. Ask dispatch for a combined number covering the spoil out and the topsoil back.
Fill bins across the west GTA
Mississauga-based and running daily through Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon and Vaughan, plus Bolton, Georgetown, Woodbridge, Etobicoke, Milton, Oakville, Halton Hills and North York.
Book a fill bin
Call dispatch at (905) 555-0147 or send the job details. Tell us the dig dimensions and what's going back in the hole — we'll quote both halves as one number.
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Tell us the dig and what's going back in. Spoil out and topsoil in, on one truck.