10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Farnham

Not for the dumpster itself, placed entirely in the driveway or on private land. We word it carefully, because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the list of twenty types of work requiring a certificate of authorization (by-law 720, s. 3.5.1) is explicitly exhaustive and contains none, and the word “conteneur” appears nowhere in the permit by-law. The job site, however, often needs its own permit — $35 for renovating a main residential building — and the building permit expressly covers the job site's waste dumpsters (by-law 718, s. 5.1.1.1). In doubt about your case? Planning department, 450 293-3326, extension 239, by appointment.

In Farnham, the street is asked for, not taken. The town publishes a dedicated form — a request to temporarily obstruct municipal public space — whose IMPORTANT box is blunt: the authorization “may only be issued when it is impossible”, during construction or renovation work, to fit everything on private property. Since April 2026, by-law 742 separately governs any occupation of the public domain: resolution of the municipal council, insurance of at least $1,000,000, fees by the number of days — with no fee published to date, and we promise no price or timeline the town has not written. The simple path is the driveway: that is where we deliver, planks included.

A fine, literally. By-law 728 declares the presence of demolition debris and construction materials a prohibited nuisance, except “for the purposes of work in progress under a permit or certificate of authorization issued for that purpose” (s. 2.1.2). First offence: $400 for an individual, $600 for a corporation; repeat at $800 and $1,500, each day constituting a separate offence. A judge may further order the nuisance removed — and if the town has to do it, the costs become a claim treated like a property tax on the building. The dumpster takes the debris out in one lift and closes the file.

It is not even in Farnham: the Brome-Missisquoi county's only permanent drop-off centre is in Cowansville, at 2500 rang Saint-Joseph. Each trip is capped at a residential trailer of 64 ft³ — 1.8 m³ — so it takes more than four trips for the equivalent of a single 10 yard box (7.6 m³) and more than eight for a 20 yard (15.3 m³): that is our own math, from the figures the county publishes. Add the refusals: asphalt shingles, reinforced concrete, soils of all types and “any material mixed with soil” go through the landfill scale instead, with fees, Monday to Friday. For a car trunk, the drop-off centre is perfect; for a job site, the arithmetic is quick — a 40 yard box holds 30.6 m³.

No — the county answers the question itself, word for word: “Can a contractor doing work at my home bring the residue to the drop-off centre on my behalf? — No.” Free access is reserved for citizens with an address in the Brome-Missisquoi regional county, photo ID and proof of residence in hand; businesses get access to some services, for a fee. On the job site the frame is simpler anyway: the building permit expressly covers waste dumpsters (by-law 718, s. 5.1.1.1), and after a demolition you have forty-eight hours to haul the materials to an authorized site. The rotation gets planned with us, not with the trailer.

Yes — and it is a real question in Farnham, where truck and tool-vehicle traffic is prohibited “on all roads belonging to the Town”, except fifteen named routes, from Rue Principale to Boulevard Industriel (by-law 604, approved by the ministry of transport on February 25, 2021). Section 4 expressly excludes local delivery from the ban: delivering, then picking up a dumpster is covered everywhere on the territory, the truck taking the authorized arteries to the last street. In the rural sector, the reference is branch height: by-law 728 has them trimmed to 16 ft above the roads, for “the free circulation of all types of vehicles”.

Because it refuses them — and it seldom passes. In Farnham, garbage collection runs once every four weeks from January to May and from November to December, and every two weeks from June to October. Its by-law excludes dry materials by name: treated, stained or painted wood, plywood, gypsum, demolition and excavation debris, rubble, concrete, ceramics, pieces of paving, gravel, rocks, soil (by-law 748, s. 2.4). The bulky waste collection in turn refuses shingles, gypsum, glass and aggregates, and any non-compliant pile is left in place — to be removed from the curb within twelve hours. Private collection, meanwhile, is expressly allowed across the territory (s. 2.12): that is the dumpster's lane.