Nationwide · commercial dumpsters
Your hauler says it was overflowing.
Your camera says otherwise.
A solar camera watches your dumpster around the clock, in any city, on any hauler's route, and every photo gets read the moment it's taken. You get the proof behind every pickup, every miss and every overage — before it ever reaches your invoice.
No pricing tiers to guess at — every site gets a quote sized to it. Mounts in 15 minutes, wherever the site is, and nothing from your hauler required.
Illustration — not an actual camera capture.
The cost of not knowing
Hauler billing errors aren't a local quirk. Overage and contamination fees show up on invoices everywhere waste gets picked up, on every hauler's route.
50%+
of commercial waste invoices contain billing errors, independent waste-bill audits routinely find.
Source: waste-bill audit firms
$50–250
Overage charges typically run $50–100 a ton. Contamination fees run $75–250 an incident.
Source: hauler rate schedules
16–20%
"Environmental" and fuel surcharges commonly add this much before a single overage is even billed.
Source: published hauler surcharge schedules
Coverage
Any dumpster. Any hauler. Any state.
Dumpster Brain runs on cellular data and solar power, not the landlord's Wi-Fi or a local install crew. It doesn't care what hauler services the site, what city it's in, or what time zone you're checking it from.
One camera · one login · every site
- Works with any hauler, in any city — the camera doesn't ask their permission or need an account with them.
- No Wi-Fi, no wiring, no site visit from us required — it mounts and starts sending photos on its own.
- One login covers a portfolio of sites, however many states it spans — a five-site week reads the same as a one-site week.
- Every timestamp shows the site's own local time, not ours — check a dumpster three states away and the clock still makes sense.
Built for
Property and facility managers
One login covers every building in the portfolio, wherever those buildings are.
Commercial waste brokers
Photo proof for every account, so a hauler dispute is a fact you hand over, not an argument you have.
Restaurant and retail operators
One glance from a phone answers "did the truck come today," without a trip out to the dumpster.
How it works
Three steps. Nothing from your hauler.
Mount it
Solar-powered and cellular — no wiring, no Wi-Fi, no electrician. Fifteen minutes on the enclosure and it's watching. Your hauler never has to know, agree, or install anything.
It watches
A photo every hour, and another the moment something moves. Each one gets read right away: is a truck there, how full is it, is the lid shut, is anything blocking access or spilling out.
You're told
An alert the moment something looks wrong, a weekly digest that sums up the week, and the exact photo and timestamp behind every pickup and every miss, always one tap away.
Return on one camera
Six ways it pays for itself
Kill bogus overage fees
A timestamped photo of a half-empty container beats an unphotographed line item on an invoice, every time.
Flip missed pickups into credits
A miss the photos prove is a service failure, not a fee — and it's evidence you can hand to billing.
Challenge contamination charges
See exactly what went in and when, so a contamination fee has to match what the camera actually saw.
Disprove rain-weight overages
Weather and fill level, on the record for every pickup — so a wet-load excuse has to hold up against a photo.
Right-size your service
A month of real fill data shows whether you're paying for five pickups a week and generating three.
Negotiate with receipts
Renewal conversations go differently when you can put a month of dated photos on the table.
See it working
What you'd see this week
This is a working replica of the customer dashboard, filled in with sample data for a fictional restaurant. Every account gets its own version of this, built from its own cameras — one property or fifty, one city or a dozen states.
- A day-by-day status strip, so a miss never hides in a monthly bill.
- The actual photos behind each pickup, not a description of them.
- An alert the moment something looks wrong, and a note when it's cleared.
Dumpster Brain
Lanternfish Grill
This week
Alerts
This week by email
Your week at Lanternfish Grill
Dumpster Brain weekly digest · Sample data
- 4 pickups confirmed on time, photo attached to each
- 1 miss caught Wednesday and flipped into a credit
- 1 overflow alert Thursday, cleared same afternoon
Sample data for a fictional account — not a real customer's footage.
Evidence you can send
The dispute pack: everything billing needs, in one click
Every charge you challenge needs the same five things. Dumpster Brain keeps them attached to each other from day one, so building a dispute is assembly, not archaeology.
- The invoice line being disputed
- The photo from that pickup or that day
- The timestamp the camera burned into it
- Any letters already sent about it
- One click to package it and send it to billing
Sample Hauling Co. — Invoice
Photo taken 6:58 AM Aug 14 shows the container under half full. Letter sent Aug 16. Credited Aug 22.
Straight answers
Questions worth asking before you install a camera
Is this legal to install?
Does my hauler have to agree to this?
Does it work with any hauler?
What if the charge turns out to be legit?
Get started
Get a quote, or start a free 30-day trial
Tell us about your site, wherever it is. We'll size a quote to your dumpsters and get a camera on order — most sites are watching within a week.
Prefer to talk first? Reach the team through this form and we'll call you back.
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We'll be in touch within one business day. In the meantime, feel free to look around the sample dashboard above.