Dumpster rental in La Petite-Patrie

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 — La Petite-Patrie

Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in La Petite-Patrie?

Two grounds, two answers. On the public road — and the laneway is one — yes: the temporary occupancy permit is mandatory, the borough's block names dumpsters expressly, and everything is published: 59 $ + 116 $ in fixed fees, then 73 $ a day on the street or 61 $ in the laneway, taxes included. On private land, the borough publishes nothing: its block on the « Installer un conteneur à déchets » page reads « Renseignements à venir » — information to come — neither a requirement nor an exemption. We do not turn that silence into a rule: the applicable text is urban planning by-law 01-279, and your specific case gets settled through 311 or at the permit counter at 5650, rue D'Iberville.

Can I put the dumpster in the laneway behind my triplex?

Often yes — permit in hand. The laneway is by name a public road: the occupancy permit is as mandatory there as on the street. The good news is the rate: in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie the laneway costs 61 $ a day against 73 $ for the street — the reverse of what happens next door in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and Outremont. The real question is access: the borough leads Montreal for green laneways, and nearly one green-laneway segment in five is not freely open to a vehicle (65 partially closed and 15 closed, out of 436). Before promising the delivery, we confirm the width and the obstacles — two minutes on the phone, at 514 708-2424.

How much are the municipal fees for a dumpster on the street?

Here is the arithmetic, from the schedule the borough publishes (taxes included, read on August 17, 2026) — the city's fees, never a Megabac price. Issuance 59 $, analysis fees 116 $, then 73 $ a day for up to 49 m² of street or sidewalk, or 61 $ a day for up to 99 m² of laneway. A 20 yard dumpster occupies far less than 49 m²: five days on the street = 59 $ + 116 $ + 5 × 73 $ = 540 $; five days in the laneway = 480 $. Where there are parking meters, add lost revenue counted at 12 times the terminal's hourly rate, plus capping or removal charges. The 175 $ in fixed fees fall before the first day: that is the argument for the private driveway when it exists, and for grouping the work when it does not.

How much lead time does the occupancy permit take?

Two calendar weeks, in practice. The borough requires the application to be received at least 10 business days before the work begins, announces processing of at most 5 business days « generally speaking » — and itself warns that some applications are « processed close to the occupancy date, even when they are received several weeks in advance ». Add the signage, entirely your responsibility: the borough supplies none, and the Agence de mobilité durable must be notified once the signs are up. Megabac can deliver fast when a box is available; it is the permit that sets the tempo. If the street or the laneway is your only option, we start two weeks ahead — not the day before.

Can the Écocentre La Petite-Patrie replace a dumpster?

For a car trunk, yes — it is in the neighbourhood, at 1100, rue des Carrières, and construction debris is free up to 12 m³ a year. For a job site, the numbers do not add up: it is the drop-off centre with the tightest vehicle limit in the Montreal network, tied with Acadie — under 7.3 m for the vehicle-and-trailer combination, under 6.8 m for a cargo van —, staff do not help with unloading and no mechanical means is allowed: everything comes out by hand. The 12 free m³ are roughly 15.7 cubic yards: a 10 yard box (7.6 m³) stays under, a 20 yard (15.3 m³) exceeds them on its own, a 40 yard (30.6 m³) is worth two and a half times over — and the cap of 15 visits a year comes fast in a demolition.

I am a contractor: can the municipal collection or the drop-off centre bail me out?

The collection, no: the borough writes that only private citizens are entitled to it — « businesses, shops, schools, churches, embassies and organizations must deal with a private company ». The drop-off centre, yes, but on the meter: a construction business pays 31 $ per m³ of debris, must prove it is located on the island of Montreal (occupancy certificate), and weighing costs 15.50 $ — all in a vehicle that fits the under-7.3 m limit, unloaded by hand. For a job that produces more than a trunkful of debris, the rotating dumpster remains the tool: 40 yard boxes for job sites on the move, flexible pick-up, and the 50 $ Libération Express credit when the box is freed within 48 hours (high season, March to October).

Can I put my renovation debris out with the garbage or the bulky items?

No, and the borough says it twice. Household garbage refuses by name construction, demolition and renovation debris — wood, gypsum, bricks, concrete, asphalt shingles, cement, ceramics, stone, rock —, soil and peat. The bulky-item and construction-debris collection, for its part, is capped at 3 m³ per address — less than half a 10 yard dumpster, the borough being among Montreal's most restrictive — and at 25 kg per box or container, boards tied in one-metre bundles; above all, « all plastic bags, even the so-called “construction” bags sold by hardware stores, are prohibited as containers ». Ten bags of debris filled in advance therefore have no legal way out at the curb: what remains is the drop-off centre — by hand — or the dumpster.

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 La Petite-Patrie

We deliver to every neighbourhood in La Petite-Patrie — and we know the area.

Petite Italie (Little Italy)Marconi-AlexandraPetite-PatriePlaza Saint-HubertRue BeaubienRue Saint-ZotiqueRue BélangerBoulevard Saint-LaurentRue Jean-TalonRue des CarrièresJean-Talon MarketRue Saint-Denis (REV bike route)

What our drivers know about the triplexes and laneways

La Petite-Patrie is neither a city nor a borough: it is the western sector of the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, the third most populous in Montreal — and the neighbourhood takes its name from Claude Jasmin's 1972 novel. As a landmark, neighbourhood police station 35 serves the territory between rue Jean-Talon to the north, the Canadian Pacific rail line south of rue des Carrières, and rue D'Iberville to the east. We deliver in the three neighbourhoods the borough itself names — Petite Italie, Marconi-Alexandra, Petite-Patrie — and our drivers do not go looking for the private driveway: it barely exists here. In the two western reference districts of the borough, the ones that cover La Petite-Patrie, single-family houses make up 2.5% and 2.0% of occupied dwellings (Saint-Édouard and Père-Marquette, 2021 census), against 13.9% for Montreal as a whole — and roughly nine dwellings out of ten are apartments in duplexes or buildings under five storeys (88.6% and 95.6%, against 70.0%). The typical building is the triplex with the outdoor staircase, no garage, and the laneway out back. So the question we settle on the phone is not the size of the box: it is its spot.

That spot, here, is often the laneway. Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie is the Montreal borough with the most green laneways — 436 segments in the city's open data set, ahead of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal (281), and the borough itself announces more than 150 — and La Petite-Patrie is their heartland. Two things to know before dreaming of the back yard: the laneway is a public road, so a dumpster there requires the same occupancy permit as on the street — good news, it costs less there (61 $ a day against 73 $, details below) — and nearly one green-laneway segment in five is not freely open to a vehicle: 65 are partially closed, 15 closed and 1 seasonally closed, out of 436. So our drivers confirm the real access — width, fences, planter boxes — before promising a laneway delivery. The 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway: same footprint, simply lower.

The market, meanwhile, is exactly the dumpster's: 9.3% of the borough's dwellings need major repairs (2021 census), above the Montreal average of 8.6%, and in the Père-Marquette district that number grew by 14.7% between 2016 and 2021. Since 68.3% of households are renters and half of all households are people living alone, the decision-maker on a job is very often the plex owner, not the occupant — we adjust: photo tracking at delivery, one call for the box, the date and the spot. On asphalt as on pavers, the PROTEC-O-SOL planks come with every dumpster and spread the load; our drivers' tip for full protection remains four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot.

Ville de Montréal, « Découvrez Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie », 2021 household and housing profile (borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, 2021 census data), « Ruelles vertes » open data set, and SPVM, territory of neighbourhood station 35 — consulted August 17, 2026.

Contractors, plex owners and the shopping streets

There is no industrial park in La Petite-Patrie: the only converted industrial hub the borough names, the Technopôle Angus, sits on the Rosemont side. The business clientele here is the residential renovation contractor, the condo manager and the businesses of the commercial streets — Plaza Saint-Hubert, which the borough itself calls a commercial artery and which goes pedestrian in summer between de Bellechasse and Jean-Talon, rue Beaubien and rue Saint-Zotique, boulevard Saint-Laurent through Petite Italie, around the Jean-Talon Market. One detail settles a lot: the municipal bulky-item and construction-debris collection is reserved for private citizens — « businesses, shops, schools, churches, embassies and organizations must deal with a private company », the borough writes. That is precisely our trade: planned swaps, photo tracking of every delivery, SMS notifications on drop-off and pick-up. 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.

Two local windows work in your favour, and two constraints get planned around. The windows: construction work and « the delivery of materials » are allowed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, holidays included — broader than immediate neighbours, since Outremont, Le Sud-Ouest and Ville-Marie prohibit Sundays and holidays. A job site that works the weekend fills its box faster, and frees it sooner. The constraints: a truck or commercial vehicle may not stay more than 24 hours on a borough street, and three axes of the Réseau express vélo — de Bellechasse, Jean-Talon and Saint-Denis — cross or border the sector: blocking the bike path there means marking out a temporary bike corridor of at least 1.5 m, with a plan signed and sealed by an engineer. On those axes, the laneway, the yard or a cross street are the real options. Our drivers also factor in the 2026 work sites — the Papineau / des Carrières underpass, the redesign of the Marconi-Alexandra streets under the MIL Montréal project, the traffic-direction changes on Drolet and Henri-Julien under the Quartier-école programme — and one invisible border: a Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie occupancy permit is worth nothing in the neighbouring borough. Working on rue Saint-Zotique one day and avenue Laurier the next means a new counter, a new fee schedule and a new lead time.

Ville de Montréal, « Bruit de travaux de construction : porter plainte », « Connaître la durée maximale pour se stationner dans la rue », « Obtenir un permis d'occupation temporaire du domaine public pour travaux » and « Connaître les modalités de la collecte des encombrants et de résidus de construction » procedures (Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie blocks), « Travaux dans Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie cette année » and « Découvrez Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie » pages — consulted August 17, 2026.

In winter the borough posts its targets — and the street shrinks

Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie publishes its own snow-clearing targets: plowing the whole territory in 8 hours, counting « at least 4 days » of work for a 20 cm snowfall and « more than 5 days » for 25 cm and up. A snow-loading operation is generally announced « in the morning around 9 a.m. » and starts at 7 p.m. the same day or 7 a.m. the next morning — and the borough reserves the right to launch an extra loading when the weather demands it. It also claims a local choice: streets with school drop-off zones move up to priority 1, while local residential streets — rue Boyer is its own example — stay at priority 3. Concretely: after a heavy snowfall, a residential street in La Petite-Patrie can stay cluttered for days. A dumpster that must go on the roadway in January therefore gets planned early: the permit application goes in at least 10 business days ahead, winter as in summer.

Three local details guide the placement. « During snow loading, rue de Bellechasse is the last one loaded. The neighbouring cross streets are favoured to ease parking », the borough writes — and in winter it also removes most of the bollards on the north side of the de Bellechasse REV to let the machinery through. During loadings, more than 800 free parking spaces open up in the neighbourhood; four of the seven lots the borough lists are on rue Boyer (6650) and rue Saint-André (6250, 6352 and 7141) — useful if the dumpster displaces a car. Two obligations remain: keeping a 2 m pedestrian corridor clear on the sidewalk in front of your property, and never dumping the snow from your driveway onto public property. The drop-off centre, for its part, slows down — closed Sunday and Monday from October 15 to April 14, and from December 24 to January 1. The box that arrives, fills up with debris and leaves two days later remains winter's shortest path.

Ville de Montréal, « Le déneigement dans Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie », « Le déneigement dans Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, une compétence partagée » and « Un réseau cyclable 4 saisons dans Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie » articles, Écocentre La Petite-Patrie listing — consulted August 17, 2026.

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in La Petite-Patrie

Access is open to residents of the agglomeration, and construction debris is free up to 12 m³ a year. For a car trunk, it is the right address, and no one will write otherwise here. Here is where the door closes.

The rule	What it means for a job site
The tightest vehicle limit in the network, tied with Acadie	Under 7.3 m (24 ft) for the vehicle-and-trailer combination, under 6.8 m (22 ft) for a cargo van — the five other Montreal drop-off centres accept 11 m
Everything comes out by hand	« Drop-off centre staff do not help with unloading » and « no mechanical means (e.g. dump trailer) may be used »
12 m³ free per year, then 31 $ per m³	12 m³ is roughly 15.7 cubic yards: a 10 yard box (7.6 m³) stays under the yearly quota, a 20 yard (15.3 m³) exceeds it on its own
15 visits a year for construction debris	Visits are unlimited only at the LaSalle and Saint-Laurent drop-off centres — an argument of distance, never of right of access
Closed every Monday	Summer (April 15 to October 14): Tuesday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Winter: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday closed — and closed December 24 to January 1
Businesses: 31 $ per m³, proof required	A construction business must prove it is located on the island of Montreal (occupancy certificate); weighing costs 15.50 $

At the curb, the fallback is thin. The borough's bulky-item and construction-debris collection is reserved for private citizens, is capped at 3 m³ per address — less than half a 10 yard dumpster, the borough being among Montreal's most restrictive on this point — and at 25 kg per box or container; « all plastic bags, even the so-called “construction” bags sold by hardware stores, are prohibited as containers », and boards must be tied in one-metre bundles. Household garbage, for its part, refuses by name construction, demolition and renovation debris — wood, gypsum, bricks, concrete, asphalt shingles, cement, ceramics, stone, rock —, soil and peat. What the collections will not take goes in a dumpster: that is precisely our job.

Ville de Montréal, « Écocentre La Petite-Patrie » listing, « Déposer des objets à l'écocentre — résidents de l'agglomération » procedure (updated July 9, 2026), « Connaître les modalités de la collecte des encombrants et de résidus de construction » and « Connaître les modalités de la collecte des ordures ménagères » procedures (Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie blocks) — consulted August 17, 2026.

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