About Blue Gem Dumpster Rental
About Blue Gem Dumpster Rental in Attleboro, MA
One yard on 42 Frank Mossberg Dr, hundreds of Bristol County driveways and jobsites, and a phone somebody actually answers.
- Licensed & insured
- Same-day delivery
- Flat-rate pricing
- Locally owned
How it started
One truck, and a phone somebody answered
Blue Gem Dumpster Rental went on the road in 2015, when Ryan Fontaine got tired of watching out-of-town haulers treat Attleboro customers like an afterthought: vague on timing, quick to add a charge nobody mentioned on the phone, and impossible to reach once the container was already sitting in the driveway. He'd spent years around trucks and jobsites across Bristol County before that, and figured a company that actually answered its own phone would not have much trouble finding work.
The pitch was the opposite of what he'd seen: one number that covers the whole job, a delivery window we actually hit, and someone on the line who has genuinely loaded a container. That idea hasn't moved since, and word travels around here. A framer tells the next framer, a roofing crew mentions it to a supplier, a family clearing a parent's house tells the next family down the street — and the yard on 42 Frank Mossberg Dr keeps getting busier.
There's a fitting symmetry to the name. Attleboro has been known for well over a century as "The Jewelry City" — home to the L.G. Balfour Company, the D.E. Makepeace Company and Augat, once the genuine "Hub of the Jewelry World." The old Balfour manufacturing site on the Ten Mile River is now the L.G. Balfour Riverwalk, and the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum keeps that history on display downtown. A hauler named for a gem, running out of a city built on cutting and setting them, isn't a stretch — it's just where Ryan Fontaine happens to have grown up. The company is bigger now than the one truck it started with. The rules he started with haven't moved.
The office
A small team, not a call center
Every call to (774) 300-3586 rings a desk at the Frank Mossberg Drive yard, not a national dispatch queue reading from a script. Ryan Fontaine still answers the phone often enough that regulars ask for him by name, and the rest of the team has been picked for the same thing: people who know a jobsite when they see one and can size a container over the phone without guessing.
The team
The people who answer, drive and dispatch
Ryan Fontaine
Owner & Founder
Started Blue Gem Dumpster Rental in 2015 and still answers the phone often enough that regulars ask for him by name.
Renee Ashworth
Dispatch & Logistics Manager
Keeps the trucks, the schedule and the swap-outs moving so a full container never stalls a crew, whether the job is downtown or out toward Norton.
Marcus Webb
Lead Driver
Sets more containers on tight, sloped Attleboro-area driveways than anyone else on the team — boards under the rails, every time.
Katie Sizemore
Customer Support Specialist
Usually the voice on the phone when you call — sizing the job, confirming the address and getting you on the schedule.
Jerry Holt
Compliance & Disposal Coordinator
Makes sure loads get sorted and routed correctly, and keeps us current on MassDEP and Bristol County disposal rules as they change.
Doing right by Attleboro
We route clean concrete, metal and yard debris toward recovery rather than the landfill by default. It's how a company that now serves hundreds of local families, small businesses and construction crews still tries to act like the small outfit it started as.
What we stand on
Four things we will not trade away
A quote you can hold us to
The number we give you covers delivery, the rental period, pickup, fuel, disposal and a stated tonnage allowance. If a job looks likely to run heavy we say so before the truck leaves, not after it's weighed.
We know the local rules cold
MassDEP and Bristol County-area transfer stations restrict tires, lead-acid batteries, refrigerant-bearing appliances, electronics and hazardous or liquid waste from a standard roll-off, each with its own required route. We tell you what has to come out of the load up front, which is the difference between a clean job and a rejected one.
Careful with older homes
A lot of the housing around Attleboro's older downtown neighborhoods predates 1978. We plan the debris stream around that federal lead-paint reality instead of treating every renovation the same.
The right box, not the biggest
Weight fills a container long before volume does — concrete, wet debris and old roofing all get you to the ton line while the box still looks half empty. We would rather book you two lighter pulls than watch you pay an overage on one.
Where we work
Greater Attleboro is a specific place, and it shows in the work
Attleboro sits in Bristol County along Route 1 and I-95, close enough to the Rhode Island line that South Attleboro is practically an extension of Pawtucket and East Providence. It's a fitting spot for a hauler whose whole business is knowing exactly where every street actually leads, from the tight blocks around City Center and Briggs Corner out to the newer subdivisions on the edge of town.
The city's jewelry-manufacturing history — the old Balfour and Makepeace mill buildings chief among them — set the pattern for a lot of the light-industrial and warehouse space that still drives work today along the Route 1 corridor. Add in the ordinary spring-and-summer rhythm of leases turning over across Greater Attleboro — apartments and rental houses changing hands, families settling into a new place before the new school year — and you get a mix of jobs that changes by the season and by the neighborhood.
Downtown streets and the older residential blocks near them tend to run tighter than the newer construction out toward Mansfield and Seekonk, so placement gets planned differently depending on where the job is. And when spring storm season rolls through Greater Attleboro, low-lying stretches near the Ten Mile River can hold water after a hard rain — one more thing we keep an eye on the same way anyone local does.
By the numbers
Where we are today
11
Years hauling for Attleboro and the surrounding towns, since 2015.
5
Container sizes, from a 10 yard heavy-debris box to a 40 yard commercial can.
17
Towns and communities covered across Bristol County and Providence County.
1
Phone number, answered at our own yard.
Meet the work
What a normal week looks like
Monday might open with a 15 yard on a short drive near downtown for a garage cleanout, then a swap on a framing job out toward Mansfield where the crew filled a 30 faster than anyone planned. Tuesday could be a tear-off in Norton where the box has to sit tight to the eave because the lot slopes away from the house.
Midweek there's usually an estate clearance or a whole-home cleanout — an older house near downtown or a newer build out in a subdivision, scheduled around what's actually being disturbed rather than a generic timeline. Fridays lean commercial: restaurant and retail fit-outs along the Route 1 growth corridor, light-industrial tenants in the old mill buildings, property managers turning units.
Come spring and again toward late summer, ordinary lease turnover across Greater Attleboro adds a real spike of apartment cleanout calls on top of everything else. And when spring storm season leans on all of it, downed limbs and storm debris turn into a run of yard-waste calls almost overnight — we stage extra containers ahead of a forecast system so we can move fast once it clears.
Common questions
About Blue Gem Dumpster Rental
Who owns Blue Gem Dumpster Rental?
Ryan Fontaine — Owner and Founder. It's a locally owned, founder-led company run out of our own yard on 42 Frank Mossberg Dr in Attleboro, on the industrial corridor near Route 1 and I-95. No franchise fee, no out-of-state parent company, and no national call center standing between you and the person who actually schedules the truck.
How long has Blue Gem Dumpster Rental been in business?
Since 2015 — 11 years now. Ryan Fontaine started the company with one truck and a simple idea: dumpster rental in Attleboro should mean a flat price, a delivery window somebody actually hits, and a phone that gets answered by a person who has loaded a container himself. That crew now hauls for homeowners clearing a garage, roofers stripping a tear-off, families closing out an estate, and contractors running several sites at once across Attleboro, Bristol County and into Providence County.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes — licensed to haul in Massachusetts and carrying general liability and commercial auto coverage. If you are a contractor or property manager and need a certificate of insurance on file before we come on site, ask when you call and we can usually get it issued the same day.
What areas do you cover?
Attleboro and out across all of Bristol County, plus the edge of Providence County — North Attleborough, Mansfield, Norton, Seekonk, Plainville and Rehoboth among them. If your address is just outside that ring, call anyway; we cover a lot of ground out of one yard.
Do you know Massachusetts's disposal rules?
We deal with them every week. MassDEP (the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection) and Bristol County-area transfer stations restrict a set of items from a standard roll-off — tires, lead-acid batteries, appliances holding refrigerant, electronics, and anything liquid or hazardous among them — and each one has its own required drop-off or recycling route. We tell you what needs to come out of a load before it ships, not after a facility turns it away.
Does renovating an older Attleboro home change the debris plan?
Sometimes, yes. We get regular calls from the older streets around City Center and the neighborhoods near the old jewelry-manufacturing mills along the Ten Mile River, and any home built before 1978 has to be treated as a possible lead-paint job under federal rules until it's tested otherwise. That doesn't stop the work — it just means talking through what's being disturbed before the container shows up, so the debris gets separated correctly instead of sorted out after the fact.
My driveway is narrow or on a grade. Can you still deliver?
Usually. A loaded roll-off truck wants roughly 60 feet of straight approach and clear overhead room, and plenty of older lots around Attleboro — and out toward Norton and Foxborough — don't have it. The answer is normally a smaller container set differently rather than no container at all. Describe the drive when you call; a two-minute conversation up front beats a failed delivery on the day.
Do you work with contractors on ongoing accounts?
We do, and a good share of our week is repeat trade with builders working the Attleboro and Greater Attleboro growth corridor along Route 1 and I-95. Accounts get priority scheduling on swap-outs, consistent pricing across every site you're running, certificates of insurance on file and one consolidated invoice. Worth setting up properly if you have more than one job live at a time.
Talk to a real person
Talk to the team about your job
One call, a straight quote, and a delivery time we will actually hit.
Mon–Sat 7:00am – 7:00pm