10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Mount Royal

Not for the dumpster itself, if it sits entirely on your land — and we word it carefully, because the conclusion comes from a negative verification: the list of certificates in permit by-law 1444 is closed and includes none for a temporary dumpster. Zoning says where to put it: at least three metres from the sidewalk, for a maximum period of three months (by-law 1441, s. 504). The job site, however, almost always needs a permit — generally speaking, the town states, all work done outside your home requires one, down to “the colour of finishes”. In doubt? Planning and territorial development department, 514 734-3042, urbanisme@ville.mont-royal.qc.ca.

Yes — Mount Royal is one of the few towns where the rule is in writing — but it is a municipal product: the temporary public-domain occupation permit (by-law 1468) is requested at least ten business days ahead, with a $50 analysis fee, free for an obstruction of one day or less, then $120 per day. Signage is entirely your responsibility (“The town supplies no signage”), a 1.5 m pedestrian passage must be maintained, collections must be able to pass, and in winter the snow clearing of the occupied zone falls to you. Above all: “the storage of materials or containers on the public road is not permitted overnight”. In practice, the driveway remains the simple answer — that is where we deliver.

Because the by-law literally requires it. When work involves excavation, material storage or a risk to public safety or trees, a site certificate is required, and its layout plan must state “the number and location of waste containers” as well as “the container swap manoeuvres”; containers must “be installed inside the work area” behind its fence, unless it is shown that the area cannot hold them (by-law 1444, s. 55). Two days before the job starts, the contractor arranges a site visit with the town. We supply the size, the footprint and the swap schedule — enough to fill in the plan without a back-and-forth.

Mount Royal has no ecocentre: the town refers residents to the Côte-des-Neiges ecocentre in Montréal, where agglomeration residents drop off up to 12 m³ per year free — less than the volume of a single 20 cubic yard dumpster — with the excess at $31 per m³, CRD debris capped at 15 visits a year, vehicles of limited dimensions, and everything hauled yourself. The ecocentre is closed Mondays year-round, Sundays too in winter; asbestos, contaminated soil and household garbage are refused. For a car trunk, yes; for a roof, a kitchen or a garage, the arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

It does — by the spoonful, and that is already rare on the island. By-law 1475 provides a residential CRD collection every other Wednesday, within a limit of 5 m³ per occupancy unit, in cardboard boxes of at most 1.5 m, garbage cans of at most 100 litres or bundles of at most one metre — never more than 25 kg per container, “to make manual pickup easier”. Only dwellings are served, and the collections page posts “Maximum of 360 L and 100 kg for CRD debris”. Aggregates — brick, mortar, stone debris, soil, asphalt, concrete — are accepted from residential origin only. A real job site overflows those containers on day one.

Four, verified against the texts. One: a written ban on storing materials “in whole or in part on the public domain” without authorization (by-law 1444, s. 15) — public-domain occupation is authorized ten days ahead by the town's technical services. Two: noisy work is prohibited before 7 a.m. and after 8 p.m. on weekdays, before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m. on Saturdays, and all day on Sundays and holidays. Three: the permit by-law's fine is fixed — $1,000 (individual) or $2,000 (corporation) from the first offence, each day counting as a separate offence. Four: your client answers for the debris too — section 37.1 of by-law 1380 makes the owner liable for debris left “by any contractor […] retained” by them. At the ecocentre, agglomeration businesses pay $31 per m³: a dumpster on rotation spares the back-and-forth.

It is the question we hear most in Mount Royal, where zoning requires driveways in permanent materials — asphalt, concrete or slabs — and where a building permit covers down to “the colour of finishes”: nobody wants to mark a garden-city driveway. Every one of our dumpsters is delivered with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the surface. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip, for full protection: lay four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives. And since the drop happens three metres and more from the sidewalk, the angle gets chosen on the phone.