Hook-loader containers for the sites that outgrow skips — delivered, exchanged and removed as fast as you fill them. Building sites, factories, warehouses and full-property clearances across Leeds and Wakefield.
A roll-on-roll-off is an open-topped steel container carried on a hook-loader lorry — the arm rolls it off on site, then hooks it back on when it's full.
Where our largest skip holds 16 cubic yards, RoRos run from 20 to 60 — the 60-yarder swallows roughly seven and a half builder’s skips in one box. That changes the economics of a busy site: fewer lifts, fewer interruptions, one container in one agreed spot instead of a rotating cast of skips.
If a skip covers your job, it’s the cheaper tool and we’ll say so — compare skip sizes or check prices for your postcode. A one-off mountain of soil is usually grab work. RoRo is for workloads, not jobs: waste that keeps coming, week after week. Not sure where yours sits? The services overview lays all three out side by side.
Hire is one-off or on exchange, priced by phone on 0113 539 9836 — container size, waste stream and tonnage all move the number, so we’d rather quote it properly than publish a figure with an asterisk on it.
The split that matters isn't really volume — it's weight. Heavy waste belongs in the 20, mixed in the 40, light and bulky in the 60. Get that right and everything else is logistics.
The heavy one · ≈ 2.5 builder's skips
The only RoRo we load with soil, hardcore and concrete — with heavy waste, the lorry's legal carrying weight is the limit, not the container walls. The right box for demolition, groundworks and strip-outs with masonry in them.
The all-rounder · ≈ 5 builder's skips
Mixed construction and commercial waste in proper volume: refurbishment and shopfitting arisings, joinery offcuts, manufacturing waste. The container most sites settle on once the job is running.
The volume one · ≈ 7.5 builder's skips
Light, bulky waste only — packaging, cardboard, plastics, furniture, pallets. Fill it with rubble and it's overweight long before it's half full, which is why we won't. Ideal for retail, warehousing and big clearances.
An exchange is one visit, not two: the lorry collects your full container and leaves an empty one in the same spot. The site never stands waste-less — or worse, waste-full.
Run exchanges however your output runs. Some customers fix a schedule — every Friday, every other Tuesday — and never think about waste again. Others call when the container is three-quarters full. Ring before 3pm and we can usually exchange next working day; trade account customers get priority in the diary.
Every lift comes with a waste transfer note, and every load is sorted at our own transfer station — over 90% of what we collect is diverted from landfill as recyclate, aggregate or fuel. If your business gets audited on duty of care, the paperwork is already done.
Exchanging regularly? A trade account turns each lift into a line on one monthly invoice instead of a separate payment — most of our RoRo customers run one.
A hook-loader is a bigger animal than a skip wagon. None of this is difficult — but it's much better checked on the phone than discovered on delivery morning.
Roughly two container-lengths of clear, straight space for the lorry to reverse and roll the container off. Tight corners and parked cars are the usual culprits.
Concrete, tarmac or compacted hardcore. A loaded container is seriously heavy, and soft ground will hold it like a fossil.
The hook arm tips the container well above cab height on the way off and on. Cables, canopies and tree limbs need several metres of headroom.
RoRos live on your site — yards, compounds, car parks — not on the public road. If space is genuinely tight, call and we'll talk it through.
Not sure your site fits? Ring 0113 539 9836 with rough dimensions, or email a photo to info@onyxrecycling.co.uk — we’d rather measure twice than send a wasted lorry.
If containers are part of how your business operates, put them on an account. It's the difference between managing a supplier and forgetting you have one.
Trade accounts get agreed rates, priority exchanges and one consolidated monthly invoice covering every site — with waste transfer notes and duty-of-care paperwork filed against each lift. Skips, grab work and RoRos all sit on the same account, so the whole waste side of the business goes through one phone number.
Priced once for your volumes, not re-quoted every order.
Account jobs go to the front of the diary — call by 3pm, usually swapped next working day.
One consolidated invoice, itemised by site or job reference.
Waste transfer notes and carrier registration details, audit-ready.
Anything we’ve missed, call 0113 539 9836 — Mon–Fri 8am–5pm, Sat 8am–1pm.
Three: 20, 40 and 60 cubic yards. As a comparison, a 20-yarder holds about two and a half builder's skips, a 40-yarder about five, and a 60-yarder about seven and a half. The 20 is the one for heavy waste, the 40 the all-rounder for mixed waste, and the 60 is for light, bulky material in serious volume.
No — and any operator who says yes is planning an awkward conversation later. Heavy inert waste like soil, hardcore and concrete goes in the 20-yarder only, because a bigger container hits the lorry's legal carrying weight long before it looks full. Mixed and light waste go in the 40 and 60.
As a rule of thumb: a straight, level run of firm ground roughly two container-lengths long, wide enough for the lorry, with several metres of overhead clearance for the hook arm as it tips — so watch for cables, canopies and trees. If you're not sure your site fits, ring 0113 539 9836 with rough dimensions or email a photo and we'll tell you before anything is booked.
In one visit: the lorry lifts your full container on, rolls an empty one off, and the waste heads straight to our transfer station. You can run exchanges on a fixed schedule — weekly, fortnightly, whatever matches your output — or just call when the container is getting full. Ring before 3pm and we can usually exchange next working day.
By phone on 0113 539 9836, because the price depends on container size, waste stream, tonnage and how often you'll exchange. Trade account customers get rates agreed up front and one consolidated monthly invoice, so there's no re-quoting every order.
No — one-off hires are fine, and they suit big clearances, house strip-outs and short projects well. If you'll be exchanging containers regularly, though, a trade account earns its keep quickly: agreed rates, priority exchanges and monthly invoicing instead of a payment per lift.
Call the Leeds office with your site, your waste stream and how fast it piles up — we'll size the container and agree the exchange rhythm on the phone.