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Originally Posted by The Colonel
They're really not. As the OP implies a steel dumpster is generally 1-2mm of mild steel and a coat of paint on each side. Construction waste skips might be heavier built, as may hazmat bins, but those used for light recycling or mixed gash might as well be made from bean tins.
Also, as noted, you get a lot of cast plastic bins about these days, or at least you do in the UK and Europe.
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Yep quite.
A lot of the overall strength for supporting the load will come from support bars, rails etc, rather than having thick walls, floors etc.
I couldn't find any good specs for dumpsters, but here's a good one on 20' shipping containers with a payload rated up to 62,130 lbs.
Which is considerably more than the largest 40 yard dumpsters.
The steel used is
SS400. Which I think* at a HB of 160 is between mild steel and RHA in terms of hardness (although there's more to DR/bullet resistance than just that I know)
The side panels vary from 1.6mm - 2.0mm thickness
So yeah I think what's in it will matter more than the actual construction of it.
*and could well be wrong!