When people in town say "the Napanee dump", they usually mean one of two places. The Town of Greater Napanee runs two municipal waste disposal sites: an active landfill at South Fredericksburgh and a smaller transfer station at Roblin. Both are open on Saturdays for most of the year, both want proof that you live in Greater Napanee, and both charge for most garbage while taking a list of recyclables for free.
This guide covers where the sites are, when they are open, how the charges are worked out, what they accept, what they refuse, and where the refused items can go instead. It also covers the curbside rules, because the cheapest dump run is often the one you do not need to make. Every fact here comes from the Town of Greater Napanee's waste disposal sites page and its related pages, checked in October 2026. Hours and fees change, so check the current hours and rates before you go.
The two Napanee waste disposal sites
The town lists both sites on the same page.
South Fredericksburgh Waste Disposal Site, 651 Road 1, Napanee. This is the active landfill and the one the town recommends for anything big. Its hours change with the season:
- Winter hours (September to June): Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Summer hours (July and August): Wednesdays, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., plus Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year the summer Wednesday hours started on July 8.
As of late October, the site is on winter hours, which means Saturday mornings and early afternoons only.
Roblin Waste Disposal Site, 232 Roblin Road. Open Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., all year. The town is clear that Roblin is a transfer station only: everything goes into bins that are trucked off site at a cost, and capacity is limited. Its advice is to take large loads to South Fredericksburgh instead.
If you are planning a cleanout, that Saturday-only window is the detail that shapes everything else. Miss one Saturday and the next chance is a week away.
Residency, payment and the attendant's call
Three rules apply at both sites:
- You need proof of residency in Greater Napanee.
- The site attendant has the final say on what you pay.
- Payment rules are specific. The town's page says payment is by cash only, and it also notes that debit is now available at South Fredericksburgh. If you are going to Roblin, or you are not sure, bring cash.
The attendant's discretion matters more than people expect. Fees for bulky loads are based on the attendant's measurements, so a tidy, compact load is easier to price fairly than a heap of loose junk.
How the charges work
We are not printing the dollar amounts here because they change. The waste disposal sites page has the current numbers. What matters is how the charges are built.
Household garbage is charged per bag. You can pay the per-bag rate, or use a Greater Napanee bag tag on the bag and pay a small extra amount on top.
Bulky waste is charged by volume, in cubic feet. The attendant measures your load, length times width times height, using the greatest vertical and horizontal measurements, and multiplies by a per-cubic-foot rate. The result is rounded to the nearest dollar. A few details follow from that:
- There is a minimum charge for any load under 32 cubic feet, so one chair costs the same as a small pile.
- Large household items that have not been broken down carry an extra surcharge. The town names box springs, mattresses, sofas and chairs, cabinetry and dressers.
- Because the measurement uses the greatest height and width, a tall, loose load is measured as if it were solid all the way up. Pack low and tight.
Some materials go in free:
- Paper and cardboard
- Metal, plastic and glass containers
- Electronic waste
- Scrap metal
- Bagged leaves and yard compost in biodegradable bags
- Brush under 3 inches across
- Textiles such as old clothing, fabric and stuffed animals
A practical tip from the formula: sort before you go. Pull out the scrap metal, the cardboard and the electronics, break down the furniture, and the part you pay for gets a lot smaller.
What the Napanee sites accept
Both sites accept the same list:
- Bagged household garbage
- Recyclable materials
- Electronic waste, including printers, scanners, phones, tablets, cameras, speakers, computers, monitors and televisions
- Scrap metal, including pots and pans, bicycles, aluminum siding and window frames, barbecues and file cabinets
- Large items: household furniture such as couches, chairs and mattresses, and rigid plastics such as lawn furniture and pet carriers
- Some construction materials: drywall, carpet and flooring, and bathroom fixtures
- Leaves, yard waste and brush under 3 inches across
Fridges and freezers are a special case. The town's waste diversion page says a certified technician has to remove the refrigerant first. Once the fridge is emptied of refrigerant and tagged, it can go to either site. Our appliance disposal guide explains how that works.
What the Napanee dump refuses
This is the list that sends people home with a full trailer. Neither municipal site accepts:
- Shingles
- Concrete and asphalt
- Tires
- Paint
- Motor vehicles or car parts
- Hay, straw and other farm waste
- Animals or animal waste
- Contractor waste
- Industrial waste
- Hazardous waste
- Medical waste
Note the overlap with home renovation. Drywall and flooring are fine, but shingles, concrete and anything a contractor produced are not. If a roofer or a renovation crew is doing the work, their debris has no place at the town sites.
Where the refused items go instead
The waste diversion page lists alternatives for most of the refused items:
- Tires: your local tire dealer. Our tire disposal guide covers the province-wide program.
- Used oil: a local mechanic or oil supplier.
- Car batteries, helium tanks and water softeners: a scrap metal recycler.
- Shingles and construction material: the town lists a private disposal site in Yarker, where a disposal fee applies.
- Paint and stains: a private depot in Bath named on the town's page, and some local hardware stores take paint back. Aerosols are excluded there.
- Prescription medication: any pharmacy that dispenses prescriptions.
- Household batteries: hardware store collection bins.
For everything else hazardous, the town holds one Household Hazardous Waste Day a year. This year's was on Saturday, September 12, and residents had to show proof of residency. It took paints, solvents, batteries, old medicines, waste oil, pesticides, pool chemicals, cleaners, propane tanks, aerosols, sharps and every type of light bulb. It did not take explosives, fireworks, ammunition, PCB ballasts, helium or refrigerant tanks, or old computers, which go to the disposal sites as e-waste instead. Watch the waste diversion page for next year's date, and see our household hazardous waste guide for storing products safely until then.
The province's recycling locator, linked from the town's page, finds take-back locations for most of these items.
Before you load the trailer
A Saturday dump run goes a lot better with ten minutes of prep the night before. Here is the checklist we would follow, built on the town's rules:
- Put proof of Greater Napanee residency in the truck. No proof, no drop-off.
- Bring cash. Debit works at South Fredericksburgh, but cash works at both sites.
- Sort the load into three groups: free recyclables (cardboard, scrap metal, electronics, textiles, brush under 3 inches), bagged garbage, and bulky items.
- Break down furniture where you can. Dressers, cabinets and sofas that arrive whole carry the extra surcharge.
- Pull out anything on the refused list before you leave. Shingles and paint are refused at both sites, and digging them out of a full trailer at the gate is nobody's idea of a good Saturday.
- Have the fridge or freezer tagged as empty of refrigerant before it goes on the trailer.
- Load low and tie it down. A compact load is measured smaller, and nothing blows off on the way.
- Check the town's page that morning for the current hours.
One more thing worth knowing: the residency rule means these sites serve Greater Napanee households only. If you live just outside the town, in a neighbouring township, check your own municipality's waste page for the site you are allowed to use.
Before any of this, ask whether the stuff is really garbage. The town runs a Giveaway Day each year (this year's was September 12), when usable furniture, tools, renovation materials and electronics can go to the curb marked "FREE". Anything nobody takes has to come back in by 7 p.m. Mattresses, cribs, car seats and toys are on the do-not-give-away list.
Curbside first: the rules people miss
The town reminds residents that curbside garbage collection covers all of Greater Napanee, and a lot of dump runs are really curbside overflow. The garbage and recycling page sets the rules:
- Every bag needs a valid Greater Napanee bag tag. There is no free bag.
- Up to three bags per residential property per collection.
- Each bag or container must weigh 18 kg (40 lb) or less.
- Garbage must be at the curb by 7 a.m. on collection day.
To find your day, the town has an interactive pickup map, and its printable 2026 collection calendar shows blue box and grey box weeks and holiday changes. Recycling is now collected under Ontario's producer-run program, which took over from the town on January 2, 2026. Missed recycling is reported to the program's contractor, whose details are on the town's page.
New homeowners: the town expects the annual bag tag allotment to be sorted out as part of the real estate deal. If the previous owner left no tags, you can buy more from local retailers listed on the town's site.
Fall leaf and brush collection is coming up. Rural collection runs November 9 to 13, and rural residents must call the town to book before Friday, November 6. Urban collection, for the area from Highway 401 to County Road 8 at the golf course hill, runs November 16 to 20. Leaves go in paper bags, brush bundles must be under 5 feet long and 4 inches across, and each household is limited to 64 cubic feet. Material goes out by 7 a.m. on the first day of your week.
Dump runs versus a bin, honestly
For a few bags and a broken chair, the dump is the cheaper choice. Load the car on Saturday morning, pay the attendant, done. Do not rent a bin for that.
The maths changes with bigger jobs. Napanee's sites charge bulky waste by volume, with a surcharge on furniture that is not broken down, and they are open only on Saturdays for ten months of the year. Roblin's bins fill up. And some of the heaviest renovation waste, shingles and concrete, is refused outright. A roof tear-off or a basement full of broken-up concrete has to go somewhere else regardless.
That is where a bin earns its keep. We deliver a 10, 15 or 20-yard roll-off bin to your driveway, on boards, and the standard rental is 5 days with 1 metric tonne of disposal included. Shingles, drywall and mixed renovation debris go in, and heavy material like concrete and soil goes in a bin sized for the weight, as our dirt and concrete service explains. See our guide to shingle disposal before a roofing job. Like the town, we take no hazardous waste, paint, chemicals or propane tanks.
For smaller jobs in tight spots, a Bam Bag holds up to 1 tonne and needs no driveway space.
Napanee is served by our Kingston team at (613) 917-2467. Local pricing is on our Napanee page and the Kingston hub, and we also cover Odessa, Bath and, from our Belleville division, Deseronto.
