Dumpster rental in Kirkland | 10, 20 and 40 yards

Choose the right type of dumpster

Size is not the whole story: dumpsters are rented by material type. Each type goes to a different disposal facility — that is why mixed loads bring extra fees. One choice to make, five options:

Dry materials (mixed)

10, 20 and 40 cubic yards

The do-it-all dumpster: wood, drywall, metal, shingles, furniture — mixed, no problem.

Soil, rocks and sod only

20 yard — the only size offered

Excavation, grading, sod removal — soil, rocks and sod, nothing else.

Concrete only

20 yard — the only size offered

Walkways, slabs, foundations — broken concrete, nothing else.

Bricks and mortar only

20 yard — the only size offered

Walls, chimneys, masonry facing — bricks and mortar, nothing else.

Asphalt only

20 yard — the only size offered

Old torn-up paving, curb pieces — asphalt, nothing else.

Why it matters. A dumpster rented for concrete that shows up at the disposal facility with wood in it is refused at the concrete rate: the sorting gets billed back. If you have several types of materials, say so in the form or at 514 708-2424 — we point you to the right type, or to two dumpsters when that costs less than sorting fees.

Strictly refused, in every dumpster

Tires

Paint and solvents refused in every dumpster

Paint, solvents, oils

Propane, aerosols, acids

Frequently asked questions — Kirkland

Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in Kirkland?

No by-law found requires one for the dumpster itself, placed entirely on your land — and the town still asks to be called. Its « Home renovations » page puts it plainly: « If the use of a dumpster is required during the work, please contact the urban planning department to find out the applicable requirements. » Those requirements are not spelled out in any published document; the call goes to 514 694-4100, or in writing to urbanisme@ville.kirkland.qc.ca. The negative check, for its part, is complete: the word « conteneur » appears in neither zoning by-law 90-58, nor permit by-law 90-61, nor construction by-law 90-60, nor nuisance by-law 2013-54; the closed list of certificates of authorization provides for none; and the 2026 fee by-law prices nothing of the kind. The job site, however, needs a permit from 300 $ of expenditures.

Can I have the dumpster placed on the street in front of my house?

No, not without prior written authorization — and Kirkland has no public-domain occupancy by-law setting one up for a dumpster. The only published door is the director's « consent »: « All work, structures or installations in or on a street or sidewalk of the town […] are subject to obtaining prior authorization from the director », who « may accept or refuse » (by-law 2013-55, s. 21.1 and 21.2). Add the construction by-law — no one may « erect or place a structure, works or materials » on public property « without first obtaining written authorization » (90-60, s. 2.5 e) — and the nuisance by-law, which makes a nuisance of « leaving any object or material on the public roadway » (s. 11 o). Parking itself is capped at four consecutive hours on the same stretch of street, all year. So we deliver in the driveway.

Why do you protect the ground under the dumpster in Kirkland?

Because the zoning by-law requires it. Section 5.6 c) states that « every tree, whatever its size, must be protected during excavation, construction or landscaping work liable to damage it, or carried out near the tree », and lists among the mandatory measures « laying ground protection everywhere vehicles or machinery travel or any material is stored (protective rubber mats or plywood at least ¾ in. thick) ». The « Excavation work » page repeats it in millimetres: 19 mm. On a planted lot, that covers just about every driveway. The PROTEC-O-SOL system — built-in planks that spread the load — comes with every dumpster: nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. The same section requires a rigid fence at least 1.2 m high, 1.2 m from the trunk, where « no activity may take place »: that is what decides the box's exact spot.

My driveway is short and the garage must stay usable: which size should I take?

That is the Kirkland question. Zoning caps the combined width of the driveway entrance or entrances at 7.0 metres per street, allows only one on a lot less than 21.0 metres wide at the front, and makes the garage mandatory: « every single, two or three family dwelling (or residential building) must have a garage or indoor parking with an effective capacity of at least one (1) space per dwelling unit », and « removing a garage is prohibited » (s. 10.6 c and d). What is missing here is length, not height: a 10 yard box is a 20 yard box filled halfway — same footprint, simply lower. A parking space measures at least 2.5 m by 6.0 m: that is the size to picture when we choose the spot on the phone.

Can the public works yard at 25 rue Claude-Jodoin replace a dumpster?

For a few items, yes. For a job site, no. It opens « every Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon » from May to October and « the first Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to noon » from November to April — three hours a week in summer, three hours a month in winter — with a « maximum quantity to respect: 2 m³ / drop-off », loaded and unloaded by hand. The by-law adds up drop-offs at the yard and home collections and caps the total at six services a year, that is 12 m³ for twelve months. Asphalt and asphalt shingles are banned there, as they are at home collection. A 10 yard dumpster alone holds 7.6 m³; a 20 yard, 15.3 m³; a 40 yard, 30.6 m³. Information: public works, 514 630-2727.

I am a contractor: can I use Kirkland's collections?

No, and the town says so twice. The by-law: bulky items and recoverable construction waste intended for the service « may not come from work carried out by construction companies » and the service « is offered to dwellings only » (GEN-2020-53, s. 18). The « Bulky items » page: « This service is not available to contractors doing work at a resident's home. » For businesses and industry, section 4 is blunter still — « municipal waste collection service is not provided to establishments in the ICI category », and « the owner of an establishment that is not served must provide, at their own expense, for the disposal of waste ». Residential buildings with nine dwellings or more may also choose to provide for themselves. That is exactly what a dumpster does.

What time can you deliver and pick up in Kirkland?

Within the window the nuisance by-law leaves the neighbourhood. A construction, renovation or demolition site within 150 metres of a building used for lodging may only work « between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday » (s. 7.5). Loading and unloading materials is prohibited « between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. the next day » where the operation is liable to disturb the peace (s. 7.4) — and the owner of the land who consents to a noisy vehicle parking within 100 metres of a dwelling « contravenes this by-law in the same way » as the vehicle's owner (s. 7.3). Mechanical, electric or pneumatic tools stop at 6 p.m. on Saturday and run only from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday and holidays (s. 7.6). We set the time inside that, with you.

How long can I keep the dumpster on my property?

For the length of the job, and no longer — in Kirkland that is simple prudence. Zoning prohibits outdoor storage « throughout the territory of the town, for any use whatsoever » (s. 5.11 a); we do not claim that this section covers a rental dumpster placed for a few days during work, and the town has never written that it does — but keeping a box permanently as a shed is not on here. In the same spirit, the construction by-law requires job site installations authorized by a permit to be « removed within thirty (30) days following the end of the work » (90-60, s. 2.4 a), a text that does not name the dumpster. And construction materials left on the ground are a nuisance the town has cleared within twenty-four hours of written notice (by-law 2013-54, s. 3 o and 6). So pick-up is planned at the same time as delivery.

And elsewhere? We checked the permit rule in every city we serve, by-law in hand — because it is never the same from one city to the next.

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Areas we serve in Kirkland

We deliver to every neighbourhood in Kirkland — and we know the area.

NORTH sector (north of Highway 40)SOUTH sector (south of Highway 40)Boulevard Saint-CharlesBoulevard HymusBoulevard BrunswickBoulevard ElkasBoulevard KirklandChemin Sainte-MarieChemin de L'Anse-à-l'OrmeThe wine streets (Chablis, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Syrah)Kirkland REM station (3010 rue Jean-Yves)Charles-E. Frosst siteMeades Park (16950 boulevard Hymus)

What our drivers check before the box comes down

We deliver on both sides of the Trans-Canada, from the NORTH sector to the SOUTH sector, and the truck plans its move before it arrives. In Kirkland, what a driveway lacks is not height: it is length. Zoning caps the combined width of the driveway entrance or entrances at 7.0 metres per street, allows only one on a lot less than 21.0 metres wide at the front, and requires 5.5 metres of clearance from the intersection of the street lines on a corner lot. Above all, a garage is mandatory for every single, two or three family dwelling, and « removing a garage is prohibited »: so the dumpster shares the driveway with the household's garage door. This is the textbook case for our drivers' rule of thumb — a 10 yard box is a 20 yard box filled halfway: same footprint, simply lower. A Kirkland parking space measures at least 2.5 m by 6.0 m; that is the size to picture on the phone.

The second thing gets settled when you book, because here the street offers no overflow. Parking is capped at four consecutive hours on the same stretch of street, all year and everywhere; it is prohibited in front of a driveway entrance, within 5 metres of a fire hydrant or a street corner, within 6 metres of a ditch or an excavation in the roadway, and between the curb and the nearest property line — the municipal grass strip is not a spot. Around the Kirkland REM station, zones H1 (18199 to 18225 boulevard Elkas) and H2 (rues Snair, place Raymond, Brien, Discepola, Théorêt, Lafford, Levere, Elkas and Des Lilas) add a ban Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. without a valid digital permit — that is, exactly during delivery hours. Our truck, on the other hand, is within the rules: the traffic by-law restricts Kirkland's streets to four named routes for commercial vehicles, « with the exception […] of commercial vehicles making local deliveries and vehicles headed to a job site ».

The third is the ground — and in Kirkland it is written into the zoning by-law. As soon as a tree, whatever its size, risks being damaged by work or by work carried out nearby, section 5.6 c) requires that you « lay ground protection everywhere vehicles or machinery travel or any material is stored (protective rubber mats or plywood at least ¾ in. thick) ». On a planted lot, that means just about always. That is exactly what the PROTEC-O-SOL system does, and it comes with every box: built-in planks that spread the load. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. The same section also decides the exact spot: a rigid fence at least 1.2 m high must stand 1.2 m from the trunk, « no activity may take place in that protection zone », and « covering the root system with fill 20 centimetres deep or more » counts as felling the tree. Our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives.

Contractors and property managers in Kirkland

Kirkland is no longer being built: it is being renovated. The town says so itself in its socio-economic profile — it « has reached a saturation point in terms of the space available for new construction » and has « moved into maintenance and redevelopment mode for its spaces and buildings ». A ribbon town 6.44 km long and 1.61 km wide, 120 km of streets, 19,413 residents and 6,790 private dwellings at the 2021 census, and « nearly 400 industrial, commercial and institutional establishments » — including the industrial park set up « on both flanks » of the Trans-Canada and the Charles-E. Frosst site, the former Merck Frosst campus sold to a developer in 2012, of which « 75% of the site remains vacant ». Our rotations are built around that: 40 yard dumpsters for job sites that move, photo tracking of every delivery, SMS notifications on drop-off and pick-up, and flexible pick-up as your work progresses. The 50 $ Libération Express credit rewards fast job sites: it applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, during the March-to-October high season.

For a business or a property manager, the by-law settles it for you: « Municipal waste collection service is not provided to establishments in the ICI category », and « the owner of an establishment that is not served must provide, at their own expense, for the disposal of waste » (by-law GEN-2020-53, s. 4). Residential buildings with nine dwellings or more may also choose to provide for their own disposal, at their own expense. And for a contractor there is no municipal door at all: collections of bulky items and recoverable construction waste « may not come from work carried out by construction companies », and the « Bulky items » page repeats it — « This service is not available to contractors doing work at a resident's home. » We take that mandate, with a contract on file if the town asks for it.

Four local details we factor in by default. A job site within 150 metres of a building used for lodging may only work between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday. Loading and unloading materials is prohibited between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., and the owner of the land who consents to a noisy vehicle parking within 100 metres of a dwelling « contravenes this by-law in the same way » as the vehicle's owner. On boulevard Saint-Charles, all work, structures or installations other than the town's own « must take place at night », and parking there is prohibited. Finally, the building permit must be posted on the site « in a conspicuous place visible from the street », the building inspector wants at least « twenty-four hours » notice before work begins, and a job site carried out within 2 metres of the street right-of-way must be « enclosed on the street side ». The municipal patrol is on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and « parking and obstruction of the public roadway » are named in its mandate: in Kirkland, a badly placed dumpster does not wait for a neighbour's complaint.

In winter the driveway is shared — we plan the room

Kirkland offers an advantage Rosemère and Blainville do not: « Temporary car shelters are prohibited throughout the territory of the Town of Kirkland », section 5.4 of the zoning by-law states. No shelter competes with the dumpster for the spot, six months a year. The driveway does not empty out for all that, because the garage is mandatory — one indoor space per dwelling, and « removing a garage is prohibited ». The car goes in, the snow piles up, and the driveway still has to hold the box. The street is no fallback: four consecutive hours at most all year, no parking from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. between November 15 and April 15, none « during a town snow removal operation », and none « during a snowfall accumulating 2.5 centimetres on the roadway or for the 12 hours that follow ».

One Kirkland rule decides the exact spot. The snow by-law authorizes town employees and contractors « to blow or deposit snow onto sidewalks and private property », and the snow clearing page adds that the town « is not responsible for damage that may result from snow blown from the street onto the street right-of-way » — that strip of private land between the property line and the curb. A dumpster set at the top of the driveway, near the street, sits squarely in that path: in January we place it further down. The other way around, throwing, pushing or dumping snow or ice from the lot onto the street, the sidewalk or someone else's land is forbidden, and the offender also pays « any expense incurred by the town »; on a corner lot, the town gives twenty-four hours to clear a pile that blocks visibility. Operations start at 2.5 cm of accumulation across 120 km of streets, with priority to boulevards Saint-Charles, Hymus and Brunswick, to chemins Sainte-Marie and de L'Anse-à-l'Orme and to the Trans-Canada service roads; the Info-Neige line runs from November 15 to April 15, and snow-clearing damage is reported at 514 630-2727.

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in Kirkland

Kirkland has no drop-off centre. It has a public works yard, behind the municipal workshops at 25 rue Claude-Jodoin — which its ENVIRO-K eco-citizen guide calls « the municipal waste depot », « a drop-off site of the ecocentre type where residents can unload various items themselves ». For a car trunk, it is the right address. Here is where the door closes.

The rule	What it means for a job site
Three hours a week in summer, three hours a month in winter	« Every Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon » from May to October; « the first Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to noon » from November to April
2 m³ per drop-off	« Maximum quantity to respect: 2 m³ / drop-off » — about a quarter of a 10 yard dumpster, loaded and unloaded by hand
Six services a year, everything counted	The by-law adds up « home collections and drop-offs at the public works yard »: six services of 2 m³, that is 12 m³ for a whole year
Contractors excluded	Recoverable construction waste « may not come from work carried out by construction companies » and the service « is offered to dwellings only »
Aggregates banned from home collection	Brick, mortar, stone, concrete, asphalt, pavers, patio slabs, asphalt shingles, « as well as soil, rock and sod »
Asphalt has no municipal route at all	Asphalt and asphalt shingles are refused at home collection AND at the public works yard: in Kirkland, a redone roof has no municipal way out

At the curb, the fallback is thin. The garbage allowance is capped at the equivalent of one 360 litre wheeled bin per dwelling, plus a maximum of 5 m³ of non-recoverable bulky items and construction waste — which schedule C limits to « carpet, mineral wool, styrofoam and acoustic tiles » and upholstered furniture: no wood, no drywall, no brick, no concrete, no asphalt, no soil. The town does not even supply garbage containers, « residents having to obtain their own garbage bags and cans ». Sector collection of bulky items comes only once a month — NORTH sector on the 2^nd Monday, SOUTH sector on the 4^th Monday, except in May and September — with a maximum of 2 m³ per household and « no garbage bags » accepted. And « tree trunks and stumps are not picked up in any municipal collection ». That leaves the agglomeration's ecocentres: Kirkland's pages refer to « the ecocentre » five times without ever naming one or giving an address; the nearest in the network is the Saint-Laurent ecocentre, 3535 rue Sartelon, open Tuesday to Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in summer and Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter, where visits for construction waste are unlimited — but where « ecocentre staff do not help with unloading » and « no mechanical means (e.g. a tipping body) may be used ». The agglomeration allowance is 12 m³ free per year, then a rate per excess cubic metre (31 $ per m³ as published on montreal.ca on August 19, 2026, revised annually — to be reconfirmed at 311). The arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

Town of Kirkland, pages « Cour de voirie », « Articles volumineux — Encombrants valorisables », « Ordures ménagères », « Services de collectes à domicile » and « Branches », the ENVIRO-K eco-citizen guide, and by-law GEN-2020-53 on the collection, transport and storage of waste (s. 4, 5, 6, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22 and schedules C and E); Ville de Montréal, « Take items to the ecocentre » and « Saint-Laurent ecocentre » (agglomeration service) — consulted August 19, 2026. Collection dates and agglomeration rates are revised every year: Kirkland public works, 514 630-2727; agglomeration, 311.

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