10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 pickup, and the $50 Libération Express credit when the box is freed within 48 hours (high season, March to October).

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 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.