10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Pointe-Claire

On your own land, no permit was found — and the check was made by-law by by-law: the word “conteneur” appears neither in permit and certificate by-law PC-2788, nor in PC-1495 (nuisances), nor in PC-2565 (traffic), nor in the 2026 fee by-law, and the closed list of certificates of authorization covers no temporary dumpster. The city does however ask, on its “Bon voisinage” page, that you inform the Urban Planning Department by email (urbanisme@pointe-claire.ca) when a container is set up on your lot — the text covers the storage container used during renovations, so we send the one-line email before delivery: it is free and it is the safe move. On the public road or the sidewalk, it is different: “a permit is required in Pointe-Claire”. In doubt? Urban Planning Department, 514 630-1206, counter on the ground floor of city hall, 451 Saint-Jean Boulevard.

Yes — it is even a Pointe-Claire particularity: the street is not closed to the dumpster, it has a counter. “If you must place a dumpster or any other material on the public road or the sidewalk, a permit is required”, writes the “Occupation du domaine public” page. The process: Form 11 of the Engineering Department (514 630-1208), submitted at least five business days before the start of the work, with the dates, the type of obstruction (one lane, two lanes, sidewalk) and signage drawings compliant with Transports Québec's Tome V — “any detour route as well as the signage is your responsibility”. The 2026 fee by-law sets $63 per square metre of occupation (taxes and administration fees extra); the period covered should be confirmed with Engineering. Without a permit, it ends quickly: obstructing a street is a nuisance (PC-1495, s. 1 q) and the city may remove any encroachment “at the expense of the person responsible” (s. 1 s).

As long as the job — and in Pointe-Claire, that is not a figure of speech. Section 1 a.1 of the nuisance by-law tolerates “any pile of stone, earth, gravel, concrete, bricks, any pile or scattering of wood, of construction or demolition materials” only “for the period required for the execution of work”: once the job is done, the lingering pile becomes a nuisance liable to $500 to $1,000 ($2,000 to $3,000 for a business), counted “day by day” (s. 5.1). Permanent outdoor storage is no avenue either: it is only allowed in the zones identified in the zoning by-law (s. 5.18), and even the site building must be removed within 30 days of the end of the work (s. 4.3 b.3). The delivered-filled-gone rhythm of our dumpsters is exactly what the by-law asks for — and the $50 Libération Express credit rewards boxes freed up within 48 hours, March to October.

For a car trunk, yes — four Saturdays a year. Pointe-Claire's local ecocentre is held on May 9, July 11, September 12 and October 17, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 50 Terra-Cotta Avenue, and it accepts construction debris and excavation materials up to 2.4 m × 1.2 m. The rest of the year, you drive to the agglomeration's ecocentres — Saint-Laurent or LaSalle — free up to 12 m³ of materials per year, then $31 per additional m³; “ecocentre staff do not help with unloading”, and Saint-Laurent closes Sundays and Mondays in winter. The arithmetic is quick: a single 20 yard dumpster represents 15.3 m³ — already more than the free annual quota. Reference points: 10 yards = 7.6 m³, 20 yards = 15.3 m³, 40 yards = 30.6 m³.

Because zoning protects the crown, not just the trunk. As soon as work involves temporarily storing materials under the ground projection of a tree's crown — any private tree with a trunk diameter of 10 cm or more, any public tree of 4 cm or more — section 9.6.3 requires a rigid protective fence at least 1.2 metres high and prohibits “at all times” the deposit or storage of materials of any type beyond that fence. It is also prohibited to cover the roots with 20 cm or more of fill (s. 9.6.1), and the building permit is only issued once the protections “are already installed on the lot” (PC-2788). Cutting down or over-pruning a tree of 10 cm or more requires a $48 certificate of authorization. Our drivers choose the box's spot outside the crown projections — and we confirm it with you when you book.

Yes, if your construction business is domiciled in the Montréal agglomeration: construction debris is accepted there at $31 per m³ (metals are free). Two realities to know before counting on it: everything is unloaded by hand — staff do not help — and while the network caps construction debris at 15 visits per year, LaSalle and Saint-Laurent, the two closest to Pointe-Claire, are the exception with unlimited visits. The trip itself is regulated: hauling refuse, soil or stone in a vehicle “that is not closed or covered by a securely fastened tarpaulin” is a nuisance (PC-1495, s. 1 k), and the load must be “securely fastened, well contained or sufficiently covered” (PC-2565, s. 15.1). At $31 per m³ loaded, driven and unloaded yourself, the rotating dumpster remains the volume solution — the ecocentre, a top-up.

A Pointe-Claire driveway is narrow by regulation: a single vehicle access for a lot with 21 metres of frontage or less, and at most 6.1 metres (20 feet) of width — with the front yard staying at least 50% vegetated, the lawn is no fallback. Every one of our dumpsters is therefore delivered with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the asphalt or the pavers. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives — and we keep the 60 centimetre setback from the street that the town already requires of cars in driveways.